Suggestion for Comparison - Precision Tweezer Meters

[jondaddio]

I have seen a couple of very similar precision tweezers with meters recently, and I thought that would make for an interesting comparison (and if you've already done this, my apologies...I'm new to the forum).

Here are the links to the devices, each about $379 -- not cheap at all, but they appear very useful, especially for unmarked surface mount devices.

Smart Tweezers with LCR Meter - $378.27 (with more options)
http://www.smarttweezers.com/?gclid=CJTN5ZXezbcCFcU7MgodOB8AKg
Datasheet:

Excelta TM-500 IntelliTweeze® Precision Tweezer Meter - $379 USD
[url]http://www.newark.com/excelta/tm-500/five-star-r-c-l-tweezer-meter/dp/74T5450?et_cid=22890161&et_rid=3546601&Linkid=www.newark.com%2fexcelta%2ftm-500%2ffive-star-r-c-l-tweezer-meter%2fdp%2f74T5450&CMP=EMC-22890161]

Excelta TM-500 IntelliTweeze® Precision Tweezer Meter - $379 USD
http://www.newark.com/excelta/tm-500/five-star-r-c-l-tweezer-meter/dp/74T5450?et_cid=22890161&et_rid=3546601&Linkid=www.newark.com%2fexcelta%2ftm-500%2ffive-star-r-c-l-tweezer-meter%2fdp%2f74T5450&CMP=EMC-22890161
Datasheet:  http://www.farnell.com/datasheets/1636873.pdf

[ddavidebor]

Mastech and similar cheap cost less than 50! but never tried it

[Fsck]

Jesus christ. For that price, they should be compared to a DE-5000 as well.
if you need the display in immediate proximity to your hand, you could just strap the de-5000 to a boom arm of some kind

[ddavidebor]

Well, if you're a professionit this things should be handy.

But they're not because th display is so f***** slow that make you trow them out of the window if you realli want to use serious.