That's quite a dangerous multimeter. If I had one with voltage and current on the same sockets, selected by a switch, it would be dead in no time.
But both of those are extremely common, both in low-end and high-end multimeters.And the 10A is unfused!
And MANY of us have meters that have suffered the obvious abuses that result. I don't think I have a single meter with in intact fuse precisely due to measuring the voltage across something but forgetting to take the meter out of a current-measurement mode. That's a minor nuisance for me because I strongly prefer to measure current via the voltage drop across a resistor whenever I can (which is most of the time for the stuff I do). So I never have a compelling reason to replace the fuse. My first digital meter (a
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