Good inexpensive multimeter?

[RicF]

I'm using a cheap taiwanese multimeter I bought on ebay for $20. It's really almost all I need, but it doesn't measure capacitance and it doesn't do Hfe, both of which I think would be more useful features now that I'm building pedals and not just amps. Anybody got a favorite affordable multimeter?

[sir_modulus]

What would you count as affordable? Personally..I think this'd be the way to go:
http://store.yahoo.com/webtronics/my-65.html

I have one kinda like it, and it's served me very well, and never let me down or not let me measure something (except inductance...but then again...few meters come cheap that can measure inductance and are of any quality).

Cheers,

Nish

[Rick]

There's lots of good meters out there, but my vote will still go to a Fluke
meter. I bought a Fluke 12 about 10 years ago. It does capacitance with
every thing else but inductance. It was $100 dollars at the time, but I
would not part with it easily. Tough case too, been dropped a few times
with no ill results. ...Rick

[Hal]

I bought a cheap DMM for $20 from BGMicro, and the thing feals like shit.  I wouldn't trust it with high voltages.  it does Hfe, and capacatince, but now that I have it, I rarely use it.  I sometimes use it to identify pinouts of transistors, but still...kinda not nessecary.  I use the $5 analog meter that I got from goldmine most of the time :-D

I totally agree wiht Rick that there's nothing like a fluke.  However, I am not in the position to spend $100 on a meter.  Too bad.

[Nasse]

My local Safety Technology Authority (TUKES) lists just now about ten cheap multimeters banned from sale because they are not safe for high voltages.

I have two cheap multimeters, I think they work o.k. for low tech low voltage stuff