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Why do I need more than 1 multimeter?
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BravoV:

--- Quote from: TheNewLab on July 26, 2019, 09:38:54 am ---
--- Quote from: Electro Detective on July 26, 2019, 12:02:31 am ---
All the above reasons, and MORE* coming     (*meter/s in your 'posession')
and do you really need another phone or the latest shiny adware magnet one? Meters are more fun, survive drops better and no Facebook BS

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I'm off to check out the other post too  > Re: Why do I need more than 1 oscilloscope?

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What!??
Where's "Why do I need more than 1 oscilloscope?"   :-BROKE  >:D

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Well, since you asked for it ...  >:D



-> Why does everyone have twenty oscilliscopes?

-> Do you collect oscilloscopes?

Words of warning, cause you may ended up joining the TEA cult ...   :-DD
Electro Detective:
Anyone with that many oscilloscopes above, is past having to justify having them to jealous people 
and time to get a few more multimeters to fill those bench cavities 


I do have a simple query: what's the deal with the vertical positioned DSO in the top left corner?

A measurement trick I'm not aware of, the unit has horizontal trace issues, 'space, the final frontier..'

or the owner had one too many beers ?   ;D

rsjsouza:
To me the coolest looking scope there is the red one in the middle! I didn't know that lab T&M gear came in such nice colors! :-DD

(automotive and portable certainly are part of the rainbow)
Electro Detective:

The orange multimeter is thinking...  \$\Omega\$

"just what do they hope to achieve parking my butt here amongst the big boys

...with no leads?"    :-//

bd139:
This thread is amusing. For me:

Multiple multimeters: measuring so many things at once. I had 5 on a test rig the other day. One measuring input current. Two measuring output voltage. Two measuring output current. Then I needed to test a bias point on the circuit  >:( ... plus they look nice all lined up like an army.

Multiple oscilloscopes: Bar the exceptional case with BravoV above with a lot of very nice newish scopes, this happens for most people when they have old analogue scopes. It starts of as an "oh I need a scope and that one is cheap". However the things are so bloody unreliable even if there are romantic aspirations about how excellent they are. So you buy one scope, fix it. Works! Woohoo. Then you find out there's a dodgy switch or the HT gives out right in the middle of something. Then you find out you can't get parts for it any more apart from some guy half way across Europe who has a stash of rare parts which cost you a kidney. So you're at a hamfest and you see another one for a reasonable price which you hope will live up to your expectations. "Yeah of course it works mate" says the guy taking your cash. Get home and it does work. Apart from one minor function you are going to need. So you then have two scopes and cannibalise one to fix the other. Then an attenuator packs in or you find it won't cal and the process starts again. After a few months you turn into me who has had 44 oscilloscopes in the last 20 years, 35 of them in the last three years. Then there's a sudden click in your mind, you sell all the damn things vowing never to touch an analogue again so you buy a Rigol because it at least mostly works. Plus you made a ton of cash selling all those scopes off to people after that hell you just went through. Life is good. For a while. Then you realise you need X-Y mode and the Rigol one sucks balls. So you look on gumtree and find a cheap analogue crate just for X-Y. Then you remember how fond you were of a user interface that isn't buried in menus. Then the analogue fear of failure kicks in and you start stuffing them on the watch list on ebay.  :scared:

I haven't worked out if this is a mental illness or not yet.

Now multiple power supplies ... that's another one. I've got 4 supplies with 7 outputs and several little meanwell switchers and it's never enough.
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