When you need a multimeter for testing electrical equipment around the home, it's vital to know what all those symbols around the dial mean.

Max is an expert on all things gaming and gaming hardware, and writes across news, features, reviews, buyer’s guides and more. He is a magazine journalism graduate from City, University of London.

You can use a multimeter with capacitance-measurement capability to measure the length of wire or cable to an open circuit. The capacitance of a pair of wires (or a wire to a shield) is directly ...