Harbor Freight Clamp and DMM

[ItsAJeepThing 10+ year member]

So I would like to be able to clamp my amp and while searching around for the tools I saw harbor freight carried a clamp with a hold feature and a dmm with a hold feature. I know harbor freight is cheap but I was wondering if they would work? I know other brands would be ideal like fluke but would I be able to get away using the off brand?

Thanks for the input.

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[>>SQL<< 10+ year member]

how about a link to the clamp?

 

[ItsAJeepThing 10+ year member]

Clamp-On Digital Multimeter

 

[bubbagumper6 5,000+ posts]

I'm not sure I would trust the accuracy...

 

[ItsAJeepThing 10+ year member]

Thats what I was afraid of.

 

[SourDeez 10+ year member]

All it is multimeter..

 

[The_Grimy_One 10+ year member]

Clamp-On Digital Multimeter

Nice

 

[carlosg_313 10+ year member]

I wouldn't, ill rather pick a radio shack clampmeter than this.

 

[THATpurpleKUSH 5,000+ posts]

All Harbor Freight electronic tools are garbage!

I have owned 5 of the red dmms they all the wire leads have fallen out of the probes and they never would read 0 or anywhere near 0 when touching the leads together to measure dc resistance. Lowest I could ever get one to go was .9 when touching the probes together.

Save your money for a quality piece of equipment like something made by Fluke. Even the Craftsman clamp meters are not that good, TommyK90 on here did a side by side comparo of clamp meters made by Fluke and Craftsman and the Craftsman was a lot slower to respond and was less accurate. His video is on youtube and theres a thread about it somewhere.

 

[Louisiana_CRX 5,000+ posts]

Sears has nice clamp meters more affordable than the Flukes...but the harbor freight meters Ive used don't seem to hold up very well

 

[brodeisel 10+ year member]

Were can i get a good dmm that is not priced like a fluke maybe 50 bucks