Looking at two budget meters, the Dick Smith, available from AU for $44
US + shipping and the MATelectronics MUL-3333 for $50 + shipping. Anyone have experience with either? Is the kit doable for a rank beginner? I do have a Weller station, will travel...
I just built the Dick Smith kit. Very nice kit, I thought. The parts seemed high quality, except for the battery holder arrangement, which I thought was pretty lame (two multiple AA cell holders "mechanically connected" by soldering a pin of one to the other). The instructions weren't bad, although the reference numbers for the figures were mismatched, which was a bit confusing at first.
The PCB layout matched the provided parts very well, and it ran perfectly the very first time I powered it up (which, I should probably add, does not happen to me very often.)
Cheers.