ZIBOO ZB-X13 Stackable Banana to Banana Plug Test Leads,Test Cable Wire for Multimeter,Circuit Testing,4mm Banana Male Plugs Fully Insulated Stackable Shrouded

Ive been using these for a couple years now for various applications. Still going strong. Great buy. Perfect length leads and function exactly as they should.

These let you have multiple probes attached to one meter. Much more useful than I was expecting.

DMM for my backpack, since I'm an electrical engineering teacher

excellent and practical multimeter

These multimeter leads add a great deal of versatility to my testing equipment. It allows me to piggyback other connectors to extend my measurement capabilities. For me this is a much safer way to analyze circuits instead of having to use multiple sets of alligator clips. The quality of these leads seems very good. In my measurements these leads introduced no additional resistance at all. I compared them with another set of leads that uses a thinner gauge of wire and within the same length those other lower quality leads introduced almost 2 ohms of resistance, whereas these ziboo leads introduced zero additional resistance. That tells me these leads were made utilizing a sufficiently heavy gauge of quality wiring in order to avoid inducing any additional resistance into the circuit. I like these and would purchase again if I had the need.

These are those things that are more than not a nice to have versus a necessity but after you get them it doesn’t take long to find yourself using them more and more. I like these because they give me options, sometimes you need the needle probes, alligator clamps or wire piercing. These let you quickly add something different to the end without pulling the whole lead out and replacing it. It sounds trivial but it’s lost time in your workflow. The great advantage is these allow a second meter to be attached which can be super useful if you're trying to measure volts and amps or volts and volts. It also gives you the ability to measure loss from resistance since you can measure the volts at both ends of a cable. When these arrived I knew they were high quality because it says so in large letters on the product. Seriously, they do feel nice and work well. The cords are nice and flexible and give a firm fit in the meter. One of the things I like to test with new leads is the responsiveness of the continuity check. This generally gives me an indication of the quality of the wires or if there might be some coating on the leads preventing a good connection. If you skip the leads across each other quickly they should register effectively instantly (depending on your meter). Well maybe not instant but it’s usually in the 10-20ms range. I know my standard leads are really good here and some of my others I bought in kits are less responsive here but adding these stackable wires in-line made no difference in the ability to scratch test these. I like them and continue to find new uses for them and I’m glad I ordered them.

The cardinal rule of test leads is that you can never have too many. Shrouded test leads like these are generally much safer than leads with exposed plugs. Now, it does limit you a bit in terms of what you can connect these to, but if you’re using modern test equipment, it’ll probably work with shrouded leads. I particularly like that these can be used as a sort of ersatz female-to-female adapter, without fear of shorting the exposed plug to something. Quality-wise, these leads are fine. I ran a four-wire resistance test on them and got 23.1 milliohms across the length of the wire. That’s 7.7 milliohms per foot, which implies that these are probably 18 AWG wires. The product description does not specify what gauge they claim to be, but 18 AWG is fine for this kind of work. The product images also show some kind of test lead butt connector that lets you join these leads at the tips, but my package did not come with anything like that.

The LCD backlight broke on second use. The diode meter cannot check forward voltage of my diodes. The auto sense voltage function short circuit my 36VDC power supply. Scary... Be warned.