Turn Your Phone into a Multimeter

Keep your multimeter handy right on your iPhone (or iPad/iPod Touch). The wireless multimeter iDVM by Redfish Instruments can wirelessly link to your iOS device. You can measure voltage, current, and resistance via an ad hoc wireless network for enhanced visualization, data sharing, and data logging.

Once you download the iDVM app, you can use the built-in signal generators to test the many features and functions before purchasing the actual iDVM multimeter, which is sold separately through redfishinstruments.com. Once you've bought the hardware, the iDVM will allow you to measure voltage, current, and resistance from up to 100 feet away while still logging data.

The iDVM Multimeter and accompanying app from Redfish Instruments.

Features

After you've captured your data, you can use the pinch, scroll, pan, and zoom attributes on your iOS device for a more granular view, and save or e-mail your measurements to share with your customers or colleagues. Impressively, this meter can also call out the numbers to you through the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad integrated speakers or earphones, providing updates on your measurements and allowing hands-free operation. Whenever the battery runs low, just plug the multimeter into your iPhone charger.

Save or e-mail your graphs and data to colleagues with the iDVM app. 

Because the app looks exactly like a multimeter, no learning is necessary. Making electrical measurements is easier than ever, and using the iDVM is anything but complicated-just download the app and pair it with the hardware.

For everyone from automotive technicians, audio engineers, and electrical contractors, the iDVM digital multimeter will quickly become a must-have.

The iDVM app looks just like an actual multimeter.

App details

The iDVM app is compatible with iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad, and requires iOS 4.3 or later.

Cost: Free

Download the app now at the App Store. For more information on the iDVM multimeter, visit redfishintruments.com.

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