Amprobe 15XP-B Compact Digital Multimeter with Non-Contact Voltage Indicator and Logic Test

After spending about a day an a half pouring over reviews for multi-meters at Amazon and elsewhere, my son lent me his multi-meter from work for the weekend; a tester which his company provides to each commercial printer mobile repair-person: a seemingly rugged, and well built tester; and I know his company treasures the employees.I was thrilled with it, and so I bought one here on Amazon.The magnet on a 3-4 inch strap on top of the unit let me hang it from a vertical 1-1/2 inch painted iron pipe-- so I can say that it is very effective for hands-free testing when something iron is around.The probes can be snapped on back for storage.The top of the unit functions as a non-contact voltage detector which sounds through plaster walls, and gets louder as I get closer to the source.By unscrewing the caps off of the probes, they convert from having about 1/8 inch exposed metal tip, to about an 1-1/2 slender metal probe tips; tips designed to accept screw-on alligator clips which I bought as an accessory. (Note: I could not find the alligator clips alone, and so I spent the twenty. They come with a set of test lead wires identical to the ones that came with the probe. I can only assume that when I eventually give the multi-meter to one of my grandkids, she (or he) will have 'two' sets of test leads that function like-new.)I think Amprobe® is owned by Fluke®?The tester came with a printed manual dated 2013. I wanted to give that printed manual to my son because he did not get a "Amprobe 15XP-B" user manual at work, and he is somewhat unfamiliar with its full operational capabilities, and how to access its various functions; as I am.Since my use of the Amprobe meter is for rewiring my 100-year old house, and I have the internet here, an online version would be just fine.After much ado, I did finally find the manual online at amprobe.com, but the support page link to it is miss-labeled as '5xp-a'. And although the online version is 2009, it appeared to be identical to the printed 2013 version that came with the meter, as far as the few pages I checked.I wanted to contact Amprobe about their website error, and when I clicked the link for their webmaster, the email address came up as the webmaster at fluke.com.If, as I now assume, the "Amprobe 15XP-B" is made by Fluke, then I am even more confident I made the right decision to buy it.

I've purchased at least 8 of these for my team. They work great, have everything we need, are durable and reliable. Great meter for the price.

Not a cheapo product. For $100 plus it shouldn't be. Satisfied with purchase.

I like this multimeter. It suits my purposes fine and works great. No, it's not a Fluke. I have absolutely no need for a 300 dollar meter.However, for a normal person this is all the meter you would ever need (I of course make assumptions) hahaha. Anyway, if it broke or I dropped it down a well, I would buy another.

Works ok, not the most accurate but tells if you have voltage and is in the ballpark. the part I don't like is that it won't zero out on no voltage or resistance

I'm currently in school for instrumentation and this is the meter the professor recommended. Works awesome. So much easier to use the the VOM or analog meters they made me use at first. My only complaint is that after a couple minutes of not being used the meter beeps and shuts off. Which can be annoying when working on something but it serves a purpose so not a bad idea.

Excellent value. Bought it in the mid $60s. Love the 0.1 mv resolution. Leads broke in half, but I use the thing every day.

Great meter for alarm and access, camera techs.

small and robust with easy to select ranges. non-contact tester proved handier than expected.I changed the wires and probes (because I had some better ones) but everything else is good to go

Am a scale spécialiste end 80% of us use this model it's by far the best model ive use and please use the non-contacte voltage for your safety