What is NIST Certificate of Traceability?

[erik343]

I am going to buy a Triplett Multimeter (mm650):
https://www.triplett.com/collections/mu ... ucts/mm650

It has an option to buy a more expensive "With Certificate of Traceability to N.I.S.T."

What does that even mean? Can somebody explain what calibrating a multimeter even means? When you calibrate a multimeter, are you tweaking settings on it or are you just validating that the measurements are accurate?

I will just be using that multimeter for doing video game console modding.

Thanks.
Erik W.

[xeos]

I am going to buy a Triplett Multimeter (mm650):
https://www.triplett.com/collections/mu ... ucts/mm650

It has an option to buy a more expensive "With Certificate of Traceability to N.I.S.T."

I will just be using that multimeter for doing video game console modding.

Thanks.
Erik W.

Just validating that the measurements are accurate. It's overkill. Any multimeter should do the job.

[erik343]

Are there potentiometers inside this multimeter? I was watching a YouTube video saying that this is true. The author said that you can calibrate, tune, or tweak a multimeter with these.

[xeos]

That price seems awfully high for what you get. If it were me I'd at least get a meter that can measure capacitance in case you find an older console that's maybe got bad caps. for that price you definitely can. Otherwise a $20 meter from amazon would do you just fine.