Its not a bad looking meter, the teardown was going quite well until you turned the board over. Bit concerned about the meter not showing OL when the higher voltage were applied. Would need to be totally aware of that if using this, good that you found it. Like you said aimed more at electronics than electrical work.

@Henry-sv3wv

Жыл бұрын

Someone else says it's dangerous because of that. But the meter says: MAX 300V kzread.info/dash/bejne/g6yEq7StisWec84.html

finally thats what I was wanting for 😁😁😁 thank you for the review

@KeepOnTesting

2 жыл бұрын

Your wish came true 👍

Lidl is primarily a discount grocery supermarket but they have one isle, always referred to as "the middle of Lidl" here in the UK that has a mixture of random other stuff in it (kids toys, tools, cooking equipment, cloths etc all Lidl own brand usually) . They rotate what they have in the middle of Lidl every week. So things like the multimeter will appear and once they have sold out that will be it for maybe 9 months then they might appear again. It's weird but fun seeing a arc welder sat next to the fruit. All the tools are that colour and branded Parkside. Usually the tools do the job OK. When there are 20v drills and the like UK tradesmen have a tendency to grab them as backups for their professional quality tools.

@KeepOnTesting

2 жыл бұрын

Thx for the update Patrick. I've heard good things about Lidl although I didn't realize the test gear was basically first come first serve. 😅 👍 Right beside the fruit..there's a good reason to pickup another multimeter!

Hi Darren, here in the UK and Ireland Lidl market a huge variety of tools under the Parkside brand eg. Drills,grinders soldering irons and much more. These are aimed at the home user and priced accordingly. Anyone I know who uses this brand as such usually speaks highly of the quality compared to price point. So anybody complaining about this brand should get something suitable for job in hand.

@KeepOnTesting

2 жыл бұрын

Hey Derek..Seems Parkside has done what Harbour Freight wanted to do all along , provide inexpensive tools that aren't absolutely garbage. 👍 That's a great feat these days.

Lidl sells tons of these and their other power tools , all are good value for money. cheap way to get into a wide 20v cordless range to, Aldi do a similar thing but theres are called ferrex well at least in the UK

@KeepOnTesting

2 жыл бұрын

I'm going to have to travel out of the country one day just to visit a Lidl 👍

Nice rant

@KeepOnTesting

2 жыл бұрын

😊👍

❤️

Darren, could you tell me what you would recommend as the best meter to measure frequency? Specifically frequencies between 15 Hz - 120 Hz.

@KeepOnTesting

2 жыл бұрын

Can you give more details as to what exactly you're trying to measure?

@Scott.Hughes

2 жыл бұрын

@@KeepOnTesting A car audio / bass music producer asked me because of my experience with electronics. He wants to know the exact numeric bass frequency that he is playing through his synthesizer. He has spectrum analyzers on his laptop. But they don't show specific numeric values.

@KeepOnTesting

2 жыл бұрын

@@Scott.Hughes HABOTEST HT118A can measure Frequency: 10Hz/100Hz/1kHz/10kHz/100kHz/1MHz/10MHz without any problems...definitely an inexpensive and capable multimeter option. If money is no option, You'll never miss a beat with a venerable Fluke 87v. 0.5Hz to 200kHz (per spec) but it can also measure higher frequencies (up to 1.5MHz) if input voltage is 7 to 20v p-p

@Scott.Hughes

2 жыл бұрын

@@KeepOnTesting Good ol' 118! That will be my recommendation. Thank you. Always a pleasure to talk with you.

@KeepOnTesting

2 жыл бұрын

@@Scott.Hughes Anytime..Cheers Scott

👍

.Hello Darren. I am a Lidl user for more than two decades and I can assure you that the Parkside material in general is very fair. It is not professional material but there are many professionals who buy Parkside tools because they are cheap and when they break down or wear out they can buy others and not spend a lot of money. I've been a user of this brand (as an amateur) for years and I can only say good things about it. For the price you can't buy anything like it and this good. By the way, I liked your "review" and it is very well done! cheers! Eurico Barradas

@KeepOnTesting

Жыл бұрын

Thx Eurico! I truly wish we had a Lidl in Canada, quality and price seem very good. Thx for watching 👍

The Lidel's store near me sells a few Parkside products, like sabre saw blades, etc.

@KeepOnTesting

2 жыл бұрын

Wish we had one in Canada..

Hi i have this great multimeter, i use it when i work with car-car electrican. Display is great and its absolutely visible on sunny day, loud continuity tester. You missed to say who made this meter, its allosun its writen on board. In serbia this meter costs 1600 RSD aprox. 17$ for that price you cant found multimeter like this

@KeepOnTesting

2 жыл бұрын

Thx for the OEM update. The Parkside is definitely worth the price !👍

Doesn’t really look like much, but there are times when you don’t need much. I guess 3 stars is fair. At least it has survived your 1000V stress test. I think I enjoyed this week’s rant more than the multimeter itself. It was… powerful. 😀

@KeepOnTesting

2 жыл бұрын

Ohhhh...thx NE 👍

When that pen multimeter video is coming out? Eagerly waiting for that one :)

@KeepOnTesting

2 жыл бұрын

Should be end of the month 👍

“ Sounds like a Lada in Siberia “ ROFL 🤣🤣

@KeepOnTesting

2 жыл бұрын

😁👍

The Fluke 113 isn't exactly the most accurate meter with a 2% + 3 digit accuracy quoted by Fluke. So for your 7.27 volt test, that is an error of plus or minus 0.145 V without the 3 digits added/subtracted. So both meters could be in error and the errors semi-cancelling to give an apparent 10 mV difference. I tested this meter with my Fluke 177 which has an accuracy of 0.09% on the DC range and it was giving an error of 0.4 to to 0.8% depending on the input voltage, but that's within the 1% + 5 digits quoted for the instrument. More worrying is the inability of the meter to show the overload. For general purpose use it's probably perfectly fine, but I wouldn't trust the CAT rating and I'd use my CAT IV Fluke for measuring mains voltages, even though it would be used for CAT II measurements nearly exclusively in a domestic environment. Anyway thanks for the interesting video!

@KeepOnTesting

Ай бұрын

Great feedback 👍

Beats the crap outta anything you'd get at Harbor Freight (or other brick and mortar place) in that price range.

@KeepOnTesting

2 жыл бұрын

Darned tootin! 😁

You are definitely the lost entertainer of the century!

@KeepOnTesting

2 жыл бұрын

Why thankyou...thankyou very much 😅👍

They Pronounce it Lie-Del where I live. Might just be the PA pronunciation, though. I could probably walk to it if it wasn't so cold right now. They have a full range of cheap power tools. I'm not really bothered by it not having capacitance. This meter is geared toward the homeowner that occasionally changes an outlet or checks some fuses in their home or Auto. Most people that check caps are going to be higher skilled and will invest into a higher quality meter. That being said, For 15 bucks, they should have included a backlight.

@KeepOnTesting

2 жыл бұрын

Ahhh..makes sense! Lie-Del ..wow you are close to them..I can't believe they didn't expand into Canada! Pennsylvania..that's only about 4-5 hours from me (Ottawa) might just have to scoot down there one day and check them out.

@antibrevity

2 жыл бұрын

I've heard Europeans pronounce it "liddull", though. For example, a Brit says it that way at the very beginning of this video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y5qqspidh62cYco.html

How come a green GI Joe appearance gets a pro point over a yellow minion, I mean a yellow expensive color? 🙄 Quite precision meter, and yes I agree with you about the look of it, Darren, it's a nice looking meter. Too bad there's no capacitance function, though..

@KeepOnTesting

2 жыл бұрын

Looks like GI JOE went AWOL with capacitance. Agreed its not a good thing.

Most people shopping in Lidl couldn't identify a capacitor

@KeepOnTesting

2 жыл бұрын

I've never been but I can appreciate where you are coming from ...😀👍

Better Park it to the side 😹

@KeepOnTesting

2 жыл бұрын

Oh you are funny 😁

Nasty Sucker I Hate it And my Trust Fall to Grounds when it turned off while measuring 500vdc Even when measuring in correct range imagine if it would have been in a wrong range.. But who Cares you like it👍👍👍🤷‍♂️

@KeepOnTesting

2 жыл бұрын

Well in all respect it's only rated at 300V so I can't fault it for going squirrely at 500v or 1000v ...in the end it did survive unscathed 👍

I just won't buy a 2000 count meter no matter how nice above 8-10 bucks.

@KeepOnTesting

2 жыл бұрын

Still can do the job though...but yes a higher count would have been nice.

I've got one, but the supplied leads are pretty rubbish. I bought a better set from Amazon, which also comes with attachable crocodile clips.

@KeepOnTesting

8 ай бұрын

Great upgrade..those test leads will take the multimeter to a whole new level! 👍

@tttttttt8482

Ай бұрын

O bought similar multimeter pdc 300 c3, when measuring volt, ohms the digits keep constantly changing, though I try to keep it as steady as possible, continuity test sometimes beeping, sometimes not at the very same place, did you have this nonsense too ?

@BedsitBob

Ай бұрын

@@tttttttt8482 Not with a decent set of test leads.

Hi Darren. Hilarious video, thanks for it. Lousy car, lousy multimeter))) Паршивая машина, паршивый мультиметр )) TM Parkside they are practically the same in everything. It seems cheap, the look is not bad, but you start to understand that the quality is worse than that of factory china. Parside is an electric tool, very popular in Poland, Germany, Czech Republic, etc. but its quality is not good. $ 15-20 for such a multimeter is too much. Maximum 6-7 $.

@KeepOnTesting

2 жыл бұрын

Privet Дмитрий! Yes my first car was a used Lada ...ohhhhh man. What a nightmare...Really a shame we have no Lidl stores in Canada , would love to take a peek at the rest of their lineup. 👍

@antibrevity

2 жыл бұрын

But your expected price range will depend on where you live. In Western countries this meter will inherently cost more than US$7 in a retail store; they couldn't afford to stock and shelf it for that price. If I saw this meter in a brick-and-mortar store here in the US, I'd certainly think $15-20 was a "necessary" price for them to carry it. We would expect to pay more than $12 for an auto-ranging meter even if we waited 2 months for it to arrive from AliExpress and at that price you'd get a credit card sized manual with microscopic print in terrible English. I don't understand why Parkside would be considered worse quality than "factory China" when that's exactly what it is. This meter may be built specifically for Parkside/Lydl, however, as I don't recognize this case from the Asian online stores. It's interesting when I don't recognize a multimeter from the Shenzhen market and it's probably why I watched the review ;).

@Pro100Gadman

2 жыл бұрын

@@antibrevity I don't look at the manual at all. Even in this Parkside it is not needed, this worthless book. It is already made according to the well-known form factor, in which everything is already clear why extra waste paper is needed. It is needed to read from there, what is the error of the multimeter and what are the limits. You don't need to know anything else.) I agree that the market is different, and somewhere it is cheap, somewhere more expensive. But even if you don’t take Aliexpress directly, then we have a lot of cheap and simple multimeters in stores with a price of $ 5-7 that have exactly the same functionality, but still have a manual choice, and you can measure something more accurately. parkside is really bad electric tool. Einhell is much better. Manufactured in China with a registered office in Germany...

@Pro100Gadman

2 жыл бұрын

@@KeepOnTesting Darren. I am Vitaliy, Виталий. Non Dmitriy ) Yes, Lada was once a good car, but ... only in the minds of who bought and produced it. Bought it certainly not a good life. When Lada was released, Toyota, Honda, BMW, Mercedes, Audi and others made really normal cars, even Volkswagen, Mazda, and even Peugeot.

@KeepOnTesting

2 жыл бұрын

@@Pro100Gadman yes I know Vitaly...😊 I was emailing someone else and got my names mixed..Извините