Re: nice DVM

On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 20:56:53 GMT, Joerg
<notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

John Larkin wrote:

http://www.keithley.com/products/dmm/dmms?mn=2100120


Neat.


Introductory price is $795 for another week or so. I just got a few,
one for each of my engineers. The packaging and display are beautiful,
and it seems to work nicely, once you figure out the menus, which are
obtuse at Agilent-like levels.

Comes with USB and a datalogger program, which I haven't tried yet.

The manual, pdf only and cleverly hidden on the terrible Flash
autostart CD, looks almost like it wasn't written in native English.
It has chapter headings like "How To Measure The Continuity."

It *is* made in Taiwan.


Maybe a re-branded local product from there?

I guess we'll all get used to "special English". When I come back from a
trip and forget to plug in the USB cable for my scope the PC says "DSO
not connect". But those instruments become quite international. Mine
came with UK and German power plus (no US plug...) and the screen was
set to Espanol.

Also interesting: it's not ROHS (has lead, mercury, cadmium, Cr4,
PBB's, and PBDE's) and uses old-fashioned AC votage jumpering, ie it
has a power transformer.

John

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