I have had lots of meters but I never liked a digital for trouble shooting. If you have a mechanical meter you may not get the precision answer you get with a digital but it is usually more accurate.
A digital can give you a reading, precise out to 3 decimal places and totally wrong.
You can tell a lot more, watching a needle move, than you can with the random number generator you have when a value is changing and you are watching a digital meter. Ever try to adjust a limit switch with a digital?
