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Current BMW Commercial Test Equipment Prop
« on: October 24, 2019, 11:08:26 pm »
One of the current BMW commercials (song by AC/DC) uses some sort of test equipment prop. Is it real gear or a prop?  :-//

https://www.ispot.tv/ad/o4sg/bmw-are-we-there-yet-song-by-ac-dc-t2

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« Last Edit: October 24, 2019, 11:14:41 pm by xrunner »
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Re: Current BMW Commercial Test Equipment Prop
« Reply #1 on: October 24, 2019, 11:22:21 pm »
It may be a prop, the real one doesn't had that screen:



You can see the battery meter on the dash in the right:



More about it:
https://www.topgear.com/car-news/first-look/meet-all-electric-bmw%E2%80%A6-1972

That doesn't mean that it didn't existed an equipment like that to test the car the first times, who also doesn't mean that the text equipment is real and not a prop, but on the original car it isn't present.
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Re: Current BMW Commercial Test Equipment Prop
« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2019, 06:32:34 am »
I am working for BMW since 2006. Here in the Germany headquarter I sadly never saw a commerical with AC/DC in background.

This one is not a fake:


But not everybody liked it:
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/buysellwanted/fs-eu-400-keithley-2000-bench-dmm-6-5-digit-zucca-bundle-alarm/msg2159698/#msg2159698
 
This one is also nice:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/9rx7-ec0p0A
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Re: Current BMW Commercial Test Equipment Prop
« Reply #3 on: October 25, 2019, 11:44:57 am »
This one is also nice:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/9rx7-ec0p0A

This one is very good. Specially because is a recognition of a competitor, not like most of the ads that I see mocking the competition.
 

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Re: Current BMW Commercial Test Equipment Prop
« Reply #4 on: October 25, 2019, 12:12:10 pm »
One of the current BMW commercials (song by AC/DC) uses some sort of test equipment prop. Is it real gear or a prop?  :-//

https://www.ispot.tv/ad/o4sg/bmw-are-we-there-yet-song-by-ac-dc-t2

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It's probably a real piece of test equipment, an old voltmeter of some sorts. I guess they fitted it in for the commercial, otherwise there'd be no clue to this being an all-electric car.

EDIT: could be some Heathkit meter, actually.
« Last Edit: October 25, 2019, 12:23:53 pm by thinkfat »
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Re: Current BMW Commercial Test Equipment Prop
« Reply #5 on: October 25, 2019, 01:17:14 pm »
That piece of equipment looks like a highly-modified Heathkit meter.  The brown knobs and cabinets are from that era.  The metal-skirted knob and binding posts on the right look like ca. 1960 Hewlett-Packard hardware.
 
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