Author Topic: Group buy proposal: VoltageStandard DMMCheck Plus (Read 23377 times)

mos6502 · « **Reply #50 on:** February 12, 2018, 10:05:17 am »

Any info on whether he will ship to Germany or not?

Ghislain · « **Reply #51 on:** February 12, 2018, 02:57:41 pm »

Easiest is to drop Doug an e-mail, I presume that if you are accepted on the pre-order list he will honour the full execution of the pre-order when he is authorized to in due time.

Candid · « **Reply #52 on:** February 12, 2018, 05:04:46 pm »

I am sure he will ship to germany as he did in the past.

CustomEngineerer · « **Reply #53 on:** March 23, 2018, 12:24:05 am »

I was able to get my order in before ordering was suspended, and today I received my DMMCheckPlus.

I haven't had time to fully check it, but initial checks seem to indicate everything is working as expected.

Big thanks to Doug Malone for being willing to make a new batch after previously discontinuing. Hopefully its worth his while.

mcinque · « **Reply #54 on:** March 23, 2018, 12:37:54 pm »

He didn't even reply me to my two messages.

Candid · « **Reply #55 on:** March 23, 2018, 02:38:29 pm »

No reply from Doug? I cannot believe. I had very good experience with him before and after the buy. And I got a repair for only the postage costs and in only one week (germany!) of one of my dmmcheck products I killed.

Mr. Scram · « **Reply #56 on:** March 26, 2018, 07:47:32 am »

So what would be good choices for the frequencies you can choose? I'm thinking that low range and high range might be useful, but I can imagine certain specific frequencies having their uses too.

Ghislain · « **Reply #57 on:** March 26, 2018, 08:53:57 am »

I have been contacted by Doug during the week-end, apparantly he is working his way through the pre-order list. He also mentioned new orders will be taken through the web site starting April 1st.
When going through the ordering process I noticed international shipments are certainly not too much of a problem

ian.ameline · « **Reply #58 on:** March 26, 2018, 11:20:19 am »

I too was contacted by Doug (Beware of Doug)

As mentioned, he is working through his current orders and will be accepting new orders on April 1. We probably got the identical email other than our name at the top. Mine is shipping to Canada via USPS.

luma · « **Reply #59 on:** March 26, 2018, 01:11:41 pm »

Today I received a notice that the DMMCheck Plus is available for order, and thinking I must be getting lucky, checked to find the uCurrent Gold is also available and shipping! It's like Christmas!

mcinque · « **Reply #60 on:** March 26, 2018, 08:25:08 pm »

Quote from: Candid on March 23, 2018, 02:38:29 pm

No reply from Doug? I cannot believe. I had very good experience with him before and after the buy

Mee too, but I must tell that I was unable to get any reply. Don't know if it's a mail issue, some years ago he replied me, now I can't reach him

Mr. Scram · « **Reply #61 on:** March 27, 2018, 07:24:41 am »

Do any of you guys choose to get the dual frequency option and if so, what frequencies did you pick?

Ghislain · « **Reply #62 on:** March 27, 2018, 10:54:58 am »

Quote from: Mr. Scram on March 27, 2018, 07:24:41 am

Do any of you guys choose to get the dual frequency option and if so, what frequencies did you pick?

No dual frequency option for me I am afraid since I really do not need it from this device.

J Dennis · « **Reply #63 on:** March 29, 2018, 11:45:33 am »

I received my DMMCheck Plus yesterday, 3/28, and it's a quite nice, small package. Includes my unit's 'Measured Values' sheet and instructions.

First impressions are very positive.

Dennis

theHWcave · « **Reply #64 on:** March 29, 2018, 01:37:35 pm »

The forum is great! I just joined and was looking for a voltage ref when I saw this topic. I immediately went to voltagstandard and ordered a DMMCheck Plus. I got a confirmation email but no shipping date yet.

RandallMcRee · « **Reply #65 on:** March 29, 2018, 04:59:15 pm »

Quote

The forum is great! I just joined and was looking for a voltage ref when I saw this topic. I immediately went to voltagstandard and ordered a DMMCheck Plus. I got a confirmation email but no shipping date yet.

It will be a while. Mine was burned in for 253 hours. I guess this is around the minimum. Since this is a quality product, the burn-in is mandatory. All references are subject to drift in the first x hours.

Also Doug works in batches, anything else would be insane.

Svgeesus · « **Reply #66 on:** March 29, 2018, 07:54:47 pm »

Quote from: Mr. Scram on March 27, 2018, 07:24:41 am

Do any of you guys choose to get the dual frequency option and if so, what frequencies did you pick?

I did, and the frequencies I picked are specific to my interests (analog synthesizers, for music). So I went for 440Hz (standard frequency for concert A) and 7.04kHz (440 * 16, 4 octaves above concert A).

The measured values on the calibration cert are 439.968,356Hz and 7.042,592kHz. Which in musical terms is 0.1245 cents flat and 0.637 cents sharp, respectively.

My most recent measurements (Keysight 34465A, Dec 2017) were
F1 439.968 42 Hz, sd 4.1 µHz
F2 7.042 593 kHz, sd 29.1 µHz

Cal date was 29 Nov 2013 and mine is packed up ready to be shipped back for a re-cal.

Neomys Sapiens · « **Reply #67 on:** March 29, 2018, 10:23:51 pm »

Quote from: Svgeesus on March 29, 2018, 07:54:47 pm

(huh, forum does not support the micro symbol, had to spell it out)

Are you posting from a teletypewriter? If not, use AltGr+M
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rsjsouza · « **Reply #68 on:** March 29, 2018, 10:32:10 pm »

I just have received mine. I haven't opened it yet. It was ordered in Feb 6th.

Candid · « **Reply #69 on:** March 30, 2018, 09:50:32 am »

Quote from: Neomys Sapiens on March 29, 2018, 10:23:51 pm

Quote from: Svgeesus on March 29, 2018, 07:54:47 pm

(huh, forum does not support the micro symbol, had to spell it out)

Are you posting from a teletypewriter? If not, use AltGr+M
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And if you are using a Mac it's alt+m

Mr. Scram · « **Reply #70 on:** April 26, 2018, 02:53:57 am »

I received my DMMCheck Plus today. It was well packaged an came with helpful instructions and the all important measured values. I'll need to sit down and take the time to look at this with care, but a quick check already seemed to reveal my gear isn't horribly off in the ranges most important to me. It's surprisingly satisfying to have some certainty.

Doug has been very pleasant in his communications too.

rhb · « **Reply #71 on:** April 26, 2018, 03:07:06 am »

Mine came a couple of weeks ago. My 3478A read 5.0000 VDC. It was a $108 shipped eBay buy and the last cal sticker was 2004. I haven't gotten to testing current and resistance yet. That will happen this weekend.

I hope to build a better reference eventually, but for actual practical work it's fantastic product at a very reasonable price.

MacMeter · « **Reply #72 on:** April 27, 2018, 12:03:50 am »

Oh boy, anther thread costing me money. I wasn’t tracking this thread, seen it in the past when it was reported in the past that Doug was no longer making any DMMCHECK pluses, so I figured I missed out and wasn’t all that interested in the cheap Chinese modules with far less features. So right after reading here that a limited run was happening, I immediately went to his site, and saw “out of stock”, dam figured I missed it again. Went back today to write and confirm the run was over, but saw it in stock, placed my order!

I wrote Doug today, heard back quickly, and he said using a 9 volt lithium battery should be no issue. I don’t like to use any leaky alkalines. Thanks to all for the heads up, not often you get a 3rd chance at a good custom product.

GregDunn · « **Reply #73 on:** September 07, 2018, 08:11:23 pm »

I know this is a necro-post, but just thought I'd poke my nose in here just in case there's a possibility of another run after Malone opens up again in October...

Mr. Scram · « **Reply #74 on:** September 08, 2018, 12:08:11 am »

Quote from: GregDunn on September 07, 2018, 08:11:23 pm

I know this is a necro-post, but just thought I'd poke my nose in here just in case there's a possibility of another run after Malone opens up again in October...

Only he can tell you.


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