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Fungus:

--- Quote from: BillyO on March 27, 2023, 03:12:30 pm ---
--- Quote from: Fungus on March 27, 2023, 03:06:33 pm ---Of course they can. Ask any musician...

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Okay, I'll ask myself.  50 years of trombone playing should qualify me.  And the answer is no. Following an expected rhythmic pattern is not "reacting" to the unexpected.

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The word was "acknowledge", not "react".

Jester:
One vote for low cost 3478, I had one years ago paid $100 for it. It was very accurate and stable. Used it for a few  years and sold it at a profit when I upgraded to 34401A. If it was backlit I would have kept it.

Fungus:

--- Quote from: 2N3055 on March 27, 2023, 12:27:42 pm ---I prefer non- latched because i can hear nature of scratching in real time. It is additional info about what is the nature of connection....

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Yep. Non-latched sounds nasty but it gives more information.

Martin72:

--- Quote from: nctnico on March 27, 2023, 03:16:43 pm ---Edit: swiping a probe along 50 pins of a QFP package takes about half a second. That is 10ms per pin of which a few ms making actual contact.
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And what happens if it has to last longer than half a second, except that you get a few seconds older before you're through?
Don't get mad at me, but I find this millisecond-beep-musicians debate kind of funny, is it really such important..

nctnico:

--- Quote from: Martin72 on March 27, 2023, 05:04:29 pm ---
--- Quote from: nctnico on March 27, 2023, 03:16:43 pm ---Edit: swiping a probe along 50 pins of a QFP package takes about half a second. That is 10ms per pin of which a few ms making actual contact.
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And what happens if it has to last longer than half a second, except that you get a few seconds older before you're through?
Don't get mad at me, but I find this millisecond-beep-musicians debate kind of funny, is it really such important..

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Typically it is not just 1 row of pins you want to check but and entire board with many chips. And you want to find several signals. The time adds up quickly and the process becomes very annoying if the DMM you are using has slow continuity testing. Also keep in mind that you might skip a pin if you have to test pin-by-pin and not wait long enough for the beeper to go off. So what you need for this kind of work is a continuity test mode that is faster than you can move a probe along a pin. The latter guarantees you test all pins when 'swipe testing' which circles back to confidence in the test results.

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