Buying guides
Which one, for the job you actually have
A hub compares everything in a family. A guide answers one question — a budget, a first multimeter for someone who has never owned one, a laser that will still be the right tool in five years — with a ranked shortlist and a reason for the order.
- Getting started
The first measuring kit: five tools, under a hundred euros
The five instruments that answer most household measuring questions, in the order they are worth buying and with the reason each one comes when it does.
- Laser distance meters
The best laser distance meter under forty euros
Three laser measures under forty euros, ordered by the accuracy figure each maker actually publishes rather than by the range printed on the box.
- Digital multimeters
A first multimeter: what to look for, and what to ignore
Three multimeters ordered by the specifications that matter for a first instrument — the safety category, the fuse, and true-RMS — rather than by function count.
- Electrical testing
Electrical testing: the order to buy the instruments in
A two-pole tester, a socket tester, a multimeter and a clamp — with the safety specification that decides where each one may be used, and how often it is actually published.