Hi. My name's Wilfred, and it has been nearly five hours since I bought a multimeter. I couldn't help it, it was blue. I didn't have a blue one.
Everything I know about buying more test equipment, I learned from my wife.
Top 10 reasons for buying this:
10. it's a different color
9. it's a different brand
8. it's a different style
7. it's a different vintage
6. it goes with _________
5. I returned the other one
4. I lost the other one
3. one is for keeping in the car
2. I need a backup
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1. It's on sale!
Gotta have one of those next to the Green, Blue, Yellow, Red, Grey, and Black ones...
Part number for the purple DVM please? Gotta have one of those next to the Green, Blue, Yellow, Red, Grey, and Black ones...
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I bought this NLS just because I thought it was cute. I don't even own a single mini banana plug so I can't hook anything up to it. But I still let out a little "squee!" every time I turn it on, so it's a very useful non-alcoholic method of attitude adjustment.
Yeah, uh no, no problems here.
I don't have a pink DMM. However, if Big Clive does his own multimeter branding deal, I'm on it like yellow on a Fluke overmold.
There are somewhere north of 100 digital multimeters within 12 feet of this chair, but I've used all of them at *least* once.
I have only one DMM dedicated to checking the charge level of my cordless vac.
I drove all the way across the county once to get a free Harbor Freight DMM because everyone was talking about them. But I had to go there anyway since the cable ties were on sale for $1.99.
When I log onto eBay, the front page shows nothing but parts-or-repair multimeters. Must be a glitch in their algorithms. I'm fairly sure I bought a NASCAR ball cap on eBay once, so the least they could do is show me a couple of die-cast Budweiser 88s.
I carry a spare multimeter to every fix-it job. Just in case the primary multimeter gets dirty.
I bought this NLS just because I thought it was cute. I don't even own a single mini banana plug so I can't hook anything up to it. But I still let out a little "squee!" every time I turn it on, so it's a very useful non-alcoholic method of attitude adjustment.
Yeah, uh no, no problems here.
pfft, weak willed the lot of you.
I've not got a test equipment addiction, there's only the Hameg 'scope.
And the Tek 485.
Oh and the R&S CMU200.
And umm, four multimeters, the Fluke 77, 179, the TTi bench meter, the oddball but surprisingly nice British Gas branded one...
There's the Aeroflex sig gen...
The Sayrosa 257 modulation meter.
The Racal frequency counters
And, ermm, the vintage round CRT 'scope and the Farnell power supplies and the Kikusui one and the other unbranded one and the Levell R-C oscillator and the two rubidium standards and the GPS standard and the AD584 standard and the...
Damnit, OK,you got me
Meh... Sounds like an ok start, but you've got some work to do.
I see only three scopes in that lot...
-Pat
After reading through 2 pages ofconfessionsintroductions it seems TEA is actually a collective of historians and not just people with shed space to fill.
So look at it as if we are all museum curators making sure our collections are kept in good condition and when we like to share, (just like touring collections from those 'bigger museums' ), we will trot out our prize piece for a virtual public tour.
And when we find that old neglectedfossilgem we will also show how it was restored to be able to be put back on display. So of course that restoration also requires lots of associated support like manuals/parts and heaven forbid other gems that will never be display quality. Not to mention all the ancillary equipment/space required to perform the quality restoration.
Thus we are all historians and custodians of test equipment history which if it was not for us would be long buried. ......... so dammit I still have some space to fill with that next gem.
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Enjoy your collections while you can chaps.
After reading through 2 pages ofconfessionsintroductions it seems TEA is actually a collective of historians and not just people with shed space to fill.
So look at it as if we are all museum curators making sure our collections are kept in good condition and when we like to share, (just like touring collections from those 'bigger museums' ), we will trot out our prize piece for a virtual public tour.
And when we find that old neglectedfossilgem we will also show how it was restored to be able to be put back on display. So of course that restoration also requires lots of associated support like manuals/parts and heaven forbid other gems that will never be display quality. Not to mention all the ancillary equipment/space required to perform the quality restoration.
Thus we are all historians and custodians of test equipment history which if it was not for us would be long buried. ......... so dammit I still have some space to fill with that next gem.
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Enjoy your collections while you can chaps.
... Or at least that's the "official" story, ie. for spouses and whatnot, isn't it?After reading through 2 pages ofconfessionsintroductions it seems TEA is actually a collective of historians and not just people with shed space to fill.
So look at it as if we are all museum curators making sure our collections are kept in good condition and when we like to share, (just like touring collections from those 'bigger museums' ), we will trot out our prize piece for a virtual public tour.
And when we find that old neglectedfossilgem we will also show how it was restored to be able to be put back on display. So of course that restoration also requires lots of associated support like manuals/parts and heaven forbid other gems that will never be display quality. Not to mention all the ancillary equipment/space required to perform the quality restoration.
Thus we are all historians and custodians of test equipment history which if it was not for us would be long buried. ......... so dammit I still have some space to fill with that next gem.
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Enjoy your collections while you can chaps.
It's hopeless. I'm about to do it *again* - drive Sydney to Melbourne and back, for some more gear and not even a holiday as excuse. Completely shameless. Kids, this is what GAS does to people.