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HP 3478A $40 BIN USA
« on: September 18, 2018, 01:26:06 pm »
No affiliation. Damn good price...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/273468509011?
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Re: HP 3478A $40 BIN USA
« Reply #1 on: September 18, 2018, 01:55:13 pm »
Well that just sucks.  On vacation and I don't have my eBay or PayPal login information with me.  Sh!t |O
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Re: HP 3478A $40 BIN USA
« Reply #2 on: September 18, 2018, 02:09:16 pm »
Well that just sucks.  On vacation and I don't have my eBay or PayPal login information with me.  Sh!t |O

I just bought it for you. Send me a PM with your address and I'll have it drop-shipped to you. If you can't receive it, let me know and I'll ship it to myself, then forward on when you're ready for cost of postage and the original cost + shipping.

EDIT: From greyeagle1 to GreyWoolfe   :-DD
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Re: HP 3478A $40 BIN USA
« Reply #3 on: September 18, 2018, 02:10:52 pm »
Now that is service!
 

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Re: HP 3478A $40 BIN USA
« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2018, 02:29:08 pm »
Who wants to ship a bench multimeter to me?  ;D
 

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Re: HP 3478A $40 BIN USA
« Reply #5 on: September 19, 2018, 12:02:35 am »
me too  loll

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Re: HP 3478A $40 BIN USA
« Reply #6 on: September 19, 2018, 12:14:07 am »
Small world, that's the guy I bought my Tek 2225 scope from a couple years ago. Good unit, smooth deal - no complaints.

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Re: HP 3478A $40 BIN USA
« Reply #7 on: September 19, 2018, 12:50:33 pm »
me too  loll

If greywoolfe doesn't take it, i will

I just heard from him. Someone will be there to receive it, so it's being drop-shipped directly to him - sorry.
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Re: HP 3478A $40 BIN USA
« Reply #8 on: September 21, 2018, 02:41:28 am »
Jay, I checked and the meter was delivered.  FEDEX AND UPS ground in Florida is 1 day.  Something awesome to come home to.  Thank you so much again for your kindness.  Pictures to come.
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Re: HP 3478A $40 BIN USA
« Reply #9 on: September 21, 2018, 02:47:34 am »
Wow what a great story. Yea pics!  :clap:
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Re: HP 3478A $40 BIN USA
« Reply #10 on: September 21, 2018, 03:04:17 am »
Wow what a great story. Yea pics!  :clap:
No worries, we will have a peek under her skirt. :-DMM
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Re: HP 3478A $40 BIN USA
« Reply #11 on: September 21, 2018, 09:34:20 am »
Jay, I checked and the meter was delivered.  FEDEX AND UPS ground in Florida is 1 day.  Something awesome to come home to.  Thank you so much again for your kindness.  Pictures to come.

You're welcome! I hope you get many years of use out of it. After you verify that it works OK, be sure to check the battery which hold the calibration constants.
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Re: HP 3478A $40 BIN USA
« Reply #12 on: September 21, 2018, 01:16:03 pm »
Jay, I checked and the meter was delivered.  FEDEX AND UPS ground in Florida is 1 day.  Something awesome to come home to.  Thank you so much again for your kindness.  Pictures to come.

You're welcome! I hope you get many years of use out of it. After you verify that it works OK, be sure to check the battery which hold the calibration constants.

Will do.  I don't have a butane soldering iron but I do have a spare UPS that I can power one of my soldering stations on to replace it.  I found a thread on how to do just that.
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Re: HP 3478A $40 BIN USA
« Reply #13 on: September 21, 2018, 07:32:03 pm »
Jay, I checked and the meter was delivered.  FEDEX AND UPS ground in Florida is 1 day.  Something awesome to come home to.  Thank you so much again for your kindness.  Pictures to come.

You're welcome! I hope you get many years of use out of it. After you verify that it works OK, be sure to check the battery which hold the calibration constants.

Will do.  I don't have a butane soldering iron but I do have a spare UPS that I can power one of my soldering stations on to replace it.  I found a thread on how to do just that.

You live in a tree?  :-//   :)
 

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Re: HP 3478A $40 BIN USA
« Reply #14 on: September 21, 2018, 07:58:39 pm »
Jay, I checked and the meter was delivered.  FEDEX AND UPS ground in Florida is 1 day.  Something awesome to come home to.  Thank you so much again for your kindness.  Pictures to come.

You're welcome! I hope you get many years of use out of it. After you verify that it works OK, be sure to check the battery which hold the calibration constants.

Will do.  I don't have a butane soldering iron but I do have a spare UPS that I can power one of my soldering stations on to replace it.  I found a thread on how to do just that.

You live in a tree?  :-//   :)

OK, I've been re-reading that sentence and the previous posts for several minutes now.
I don't get it, but it's been a long day... ???
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Re: HP 3478A $40 BIN USA
« Reply #15 on: September 21, 2018, 08:13:34 pm »
OK, I've been re-reading that sentence and the previous posts for several minutes now.
I don't get it, but it's been a long day... ???
Both a butane soldering iron and a UPS make it sound like GreyWoolfe is off the grid somewhere.
 

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Re: HP 3478A $40 BIN USA
« Reply #16 on: September 21, 2018, 08:40:57 pm »
Here is one on auction in Vancouver, BC, Canada, right now $1!

https://maxsold.maxsold.com/auction/12204/item/multimeter-and-function-generator-a-1114465/
 

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Re: HP 3478A $40 BIN USA
« Reply #17 on: September 21, 2018, 08:50:55 pm »
OK, I've been re-reading that sentence and the previous posts for several minutes now.
I don't get it, but it's been a long day... ???
Both a butane soldering iron and a UPS make it sound like GreyWoolfe is off the grid somewhere.

OK, I got it now. GreyWoolfe's using a UPS made sense to me as you don't want to GND the + with it plugged into the mains.
Ehh... never-mind. I missed it. :=\
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Re: HP 3478A $40 BIN USA
« Reply #18 on: September 21, 2018, 10:40:28 pm »
OK, I've been re-reading that sentence and the previous posts for several minutes now.
I don't get it, but it's been a long day... ???
Both a butane soldering iron and a UPS make it sound like GreyWoolfe is off the grid somewhere.

Considering here in Florida we have Faulty Power and light, that is not far off the mark. :-DD  I have 4 big UPSs to keep everything up in my office.  I had a  butane iron years ago but it was horrible at holding butane.  I will be better off using a UPS or my isolation transformer for my soldering station.
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Re: HP 3478A $40 BIN USA
« Reply #19 on: September 22, 2018, 01:27:16 am »
Since you have plenty of backup power, you can skip soldering in a standby battery and just keep the 3478A powered with a UPS while doing the replacement operation.
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Re: HP 3478A $40 BIN USA
« Reply #20 on: September 22, 2018, 03:24:48 am »
Since you have plenty of backup power, you can skip soldering in a standby battery and just keep the 3478A powered with a UPS while doing the replacement operation.

D'oh!  Didn't think of that.  :palm:  The whole workbench, including the soldering stations, is on its own UPS.
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Re: HP 3478A $40 BIN USA
« Reply #21 on: September 22, 2018, 03:45:03 am »
OK, I've been re-reading that sentence and the previous posts for several minutes now.
I don't get it, but it's been a long day... ???
Both a butane soldering iron and a UPS make it sound like GreyWoolfe is off the grid somewhere.

Considering here in Florida we have Faulty Power and light, that is not far off the mark. :-DD  I have 4 big UPSs to keep everything up in my office.  I had a  butane iron years ago but it was horrible at holding butane.  I will be better off using a UPS or my isolation transformer for my soldering station.
I am too much of a noob to have picked up the isolated soldering iron connection, but I have learned something, actually two things..you don't live in a tree :)
It's a big state, but we buy our power from the same company and I have a generator which gets used all too often. I'm in Ft. Lauderdale. Howdy neighbor!
 

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Re: HP 3478A $40 BIN USA
« Reply #22 on: September 23, 2018, 02:18:17 am »
OK, I've been re-reading that sentence and the previous posts for several minutes now.
I don't get it, but it's been a long day... ???
Both a butane soldering iron and a UPS make it sound like GreyWoolfe is off the grid somewhere.

Considering here in Florida we have Faulty Power and light, that is not far off the mark. :-DD  I have 4 big UPSs to keep everything up in my office.  I had a  butane iron years ago but it was horrible at holding butane.  I will be better off using a UPS or my isolation transformer for my soldering station.
I am too much of a noob to have picked up the isolated soldering iron connection, but I have learned something, actually two things..you don't live in a tree :)
It's a big state, but we buy our power from the same company and I have a generator which gets used all too often. I'm in Ft. Lauderdale. Howdy neighbor!

Howdy neighbor! ;D  I live in Edgewater now but I have lived in Hollywood Beach and Hallandale Beach.  The generator only has to come out after hurricanes.  No, I don't live in a tree but my 80 meter full wave loop does live in the trees!!
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Re: HP 3478A $40 BIN USA
« Reply #23 on: September 24, 2018, 12:53:38 am »
So I got to unbox the meter!!! :clap: :clap:  As you can see, lots of bubble wrap and packing peanuts.  The second pic shows the face of the meter, extra bubble wrap.  The next pic shows the bezel of the meter, clean but with a broken power button, it still works.  You can see that it says uncalibrated.  Just a quick play shows the reading of a 1R1, 10% resistor, so it is a bit off.  As a comparison, my HP 3466A shows 1R08 and my GW Instek GDM-8251A shows 1R24.  I will get out my HeathKit scope calibrator for some DC voltages and get some comparisons and then I will open her up and see what is under the skirt.  Too tired after 14 hours on the road Saturday and another 6 hours today with a stop in between to pick up the dogs left at my mother-in-law's house.
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Re: HP 3478A $40 BIN USA
« Reply #24 on: September 24, 2018, 04:42:02 am »
Good to see it was well packed. That seems rare nowadays with eBay sellers.
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