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Almost skipped the $38 DMM until a 40 foot run in an attic in Boise humbled me
I used to think a cheap multimeter was fine for checking 12v aux power on panel jobs, but after chasing a bad ground through three attic runs on a Tuesday install last month, I finally bought a real one and found the fault in under 2 minutes, so what cheap tool did you swear off before it cost you an afternoon?
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johnson.daniel4h ago
How many of you have a tool that sat in the truck for years before you actually needed it and then it saved your butt? Mine was a cheap circuit tracer I got in a grab bag at a flea market. I laughed at it for like two years, thought it was a toy. Then I had a dead outlet in a finished basement where every wire disappeared behind drywall and I couldn't see where anything ran. That little thing beeped me right to a hidden junction box buried behind insulation in maybe 90 seconds. I felt stupid for all the times I opened up walls before that. Now it lives in my main bag and the fancy meter stays home on simple stuff. Funny how the cheapest junk turns into the hero once you're the one sweating in an attic.
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