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We just moved into a new place and find the shower water adjustment is very, very poor. It is 'hair trigger' just the tiniest bit more cold water and suddenly it's totally cold. Just the tiniest big less and suddenly it is scalding hot. Adjusting the hot water doesn't seem to make any...

That's a good idea about blocking off that hole. I'll do something like that. I didn't realise this was primarily a plumbing forum - i found it googling for electricians, with my multimeter problem. So now I've got a plumbing problem, surprise, surprise.... I'll start a new thread would...

Yep, guys thanks for the input. I well understand the warning about checking the meter before use and the reminder is very good to have - my old radio shack analog meter had such puny wiring inside the leads that they just broke during the course of normal use and led me to detect no voltage...

Actually it turns out I've been too hasty once again... under the cardboard backplate of the blister pack was a kinda long bubble going across the bottom, something like you get on blister packs of screws, so's the vendors can stand 'em up on display I guess. But this wasn't for standing up...

Okay, got it. I use the bottom two holes. The bottom one is negative and the middle one is positive, to use my old analog meter terminology. The 'COM' marking threw me. I didn't think of 'common' as an answer. And I still don't really understand it, but okay, earth, neg, like that. DON'T...

I just got a digital multimeter, the first one I've ever owned or touched, for only $10, new! Great stuff. But it came without leads. And when I look at it I see not two holes marked + and - as with my old analog meter, but three, with strange markings. So I don't know what to put in...