>Multimeters can be made for $10 or $15, but Fluke continues to dominate the market with equivalent meters costing 10x more. Depends what you mean "dominate th

>Multimeters can be made for $10 or $15, but Fluke continues to dominate the market with equivalent meters costing 10x more. Depends what you mean "dominate the market", I guess: go to Amazon or Radio Shack, and most of the multimeters are the cheap and non-Fluke. Also: Fluke does certainly charge a premium, but they are also not equivalent to the $10 meter. Fluke uses higher-quality (and thus more expensive) components, and it definitely costs them more than $15 to manufacture. This affects the actual electronics to the case to the probes to the buttons. If you use your meter to measure your batteries and the occasional resistor, you probably don't care. But if you use the meter often, you may start to notice the difference, and that's why people are willing to pay that higher price--it really is worth it to some.