If it's not too late I would like to withdraw my name from consideration in order for Trunkate to receive the meter she wants. I'm another Hoosier from South Bend, IN and feel that she needs and could use the meter down there in Indy.
Go ND
I think it is cool that you are teaching your kids electronics and how they work. It brings tears to my eyes knowing that there are parents out there who are able to relate to their kids, teach their kids, and give them a hobby they love.
+1, it is awesome to see parents invest in their children.
If it's not too late I would like to withdraw my name from consideration in order for Trunkate to receive the meter she wants. I'm another Hoosier from South Bend, IN and feel that she needs and could use the meter down there in Indy.
Thanks for that jobog.
Here are the winners!
1st prize - DudeGibbs wins the Tektronix CDM250
2nd & 3rd prizes - Zerorisers and Truncate both win a Fluke 27/FM
Congratulations!
Please send me your full names and addresses in a PM, and I will arrange for my shipping and forward this info to the other shippers. I will be sending the CDM250. Excavatoree will be sending the Flukes and Lightages will be sending the test leads for the Flukes (from Chile!)
Again, congratulations to the winners and please show us a pic of the meters in use when you get them.
Perhaps we can do another contest in the near future.
Kudos xrunner and well done!
I think it is cool that you are teaching your kids electronics and how they work. It brings tears to my eyes knowing that there are parents out there who are able to relate to their kids, teach their kids, and give them a hobby they love.
+1, it is awesome to see parents invest in their children.
My dad got me started in electronics when I was 5. He was one of the guys who worked on the JBL Toon Truck if anyone remembers that... When I was about 12, I collected almost every Snapcircuits upgrade kit... 3 times. Might do a givaway if I can find them... My first intro to transistors was with these kits, and I uploaded a video to youtube. Same username as my username here. I was surprised to see how many views the video got. I want to change the audio to some soundtrack and annotate the video because my young voice is annoying, but I am too lazy. Anyway, I am 16 now, and as I am writing this, I have a big fat grin on my face because I just succesfully repaired a reciever with an exploded .65mm pin pitch SMD amplifier chip. First surface mount repair ever! Thanks to my dad and this great forum for continuing my hobby in electronics, and I encourage parents to do the same!
Congratulations to the winners. Great job xrunner.
To those winners of the Fluke 27s, there will be a bit of a delay for the test leads. The area of Chile where I live has been hit with record rainfalls and this has caused major flooding and quite a bit of damage to the infrastructure here. I will send the leads as soon as I can but it may be a bit of a wait for them to arrive in the US.
Thank you to everyone for the support. I really look forward to using our Fluke 27 with Thomas! Last night we tore down an old Stereo together. We put it back together and attached a couple of speakers that originally were a part of an USB set for our PC. It worked even with a few left over screws! Now Tom has his own radio, and is very proud.
Thank you to everyone for the support. I really look forward to using our Fluke 27 with Thomas! Last night we tore down an old Stereo together. We put it back together and attached a couple of speakers that originally were a part of an USB set for our PC. It worked even with a few left over screws! Now Tom has his own radio, and is very proud.
Nice work! I really hope you guys enjoy the meter!
Give yourself a pat on the back xrunner
Sweet - but either the meter arrived malfunctioning or that battery needs charging.
Sweet - but either the meter arrived malfunctioning or that battery needs charging.
Haha. I have the meter set to AC in the photo to demonstrate I have a proper meter now.
Thanks to xrunner I also have another TEK bench meter slowly swimming across the Atlantic to me. Nice to see the new home of that one though.
@xrunner
This has to be one of the better ways to give a multimeter away. Very well done.
Plesae don't forget to thank Excavatoree for his contribution people. He supplied two Fluke 27s!
Plesae don't forget to thank Excavatoree for his contribution people. He supplied two Fluke 27s!
Sorry, I didn't, your right. Thank you Excavatoree
Well it seems that the Fluke 27 winners will be getting leads shipped from Hong Kong. It turns out it would cost me 5 times more to ship from Chile to the US than buying leads from Franky and having them shipped to the US. So Fluke 27 winners, look for a package from Franky (iloveelectronics here on the forums) in the following days. There will be new Digitek gold plated leads and a couple of extra things.
I guess I'll enter too! I hope I win!
I guess I'll enter too! I hope I win!
The contest is over now, but I bet we have another ...
Stay tuned!
It looks like I lucked out - although given its a US-spec DMM, it is probably the wrong voltage anyway
It looks like I lucked out - although given its a US-spec DMM, it is probably the wrong voltage anyway
No - the CDM250 has configuration switches on the back allowing it to run on mains up to 240V