Review on 🔋 HiLetgo VOT-8 Voltmeter Kit: DIY Voltage Meter Electronics Production Suite for Student Electronic Exercises by Jeremy Meza

This kit, like many others, is a good kit for hobby soldering and/or learning. If you solder all the components properly, you end up with a great little part that works but isn't as fully functional as the finished products. For example I used this to test a couple of 9v batteries I have, for everything else I use my multimeter. But again, it's nice to have a working device to show off your efforts. Moving on to assembly I had no problems other than a small confusion with the orientation of the transistor on the board. You insert its legs into the corresponding holes on the circuit board, Then put the transistor on the board. (Not?) Common sense told me to mount the transistor so that it lay flat side down on the PCB, but I was wondering if it should be mounted on the PCB with the round side of the transistor. After some futile research, I followed my intuition and installed the transistor with the flat side down. I supposed. The instructions in this set are terrible, with very broken English and some words simply translated into Chinese, written in alphabetical text, not Chinese characters. And there are no assembly instructions for this kit, it's a poorly written explanation of how the voltmeter works when properly assembled. With my basic knowledge of electronics, that didn't stop me, but that nuance can turn this set into a nightmare for those with little to no knowledge. So I wouldn't recommend this to a complete beginner unless they have someone with experience to help them. If you solder occasionally as a hobby like I do, or want to get rid of memory rusts in your soldering skills and don't want to use your own parts for a project, this kit is a good option at a good price.