It drives me crazy that the leads in the Triplett 2030-C are hardwired, as anybody who knows anything about multimeters knows that their leads will typically go well before the meter itself, so my original instinct was to eliminate it from the list.
Including a single category-two model as an option for budgeted hobbyists who have limited ambition for this purchase was fair enough, but allotting 20% of this list’s real estate to arguably subpar equipment just seemed like too much. I did, however, take issue with the inclusion of two CAT II models at the bottom of our list, which seemed to me to be about one too many. After a fairly thorough overhaul last year, and without much innovation in the space since then, it was an easy round of updates this time around, with all of our previous picks still seeming to be available and in good standing.
