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BM235 vs BM867s
sonpul:
Each brand has an engineer on the team who brings some kind of dirty trick to the ideal development.
For example, they make the backlight only 15 seconds, or wedged nS between measurement and continuity modes.
Probably in Briman this developer was fired. In recent versions, 869 has about 3 minutes. And the BM789 finally did the right thing, 30 minutes of backlighting. But they still left the catch, did not remember the previous state of the backlight when turned on. Тhat would be ideal.
mwb1100:
--- Quote from: robdejonge on April 06, 2023, 07:08:50 am ---You can’t just turn the backlight on permanently? Hm.
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Not that I'm aware of. If that can be done, I hope someone can fill me in.
--- Quote from: robdejonge on April 06, 2023, 07:08:50 am ---I believe these also apply to the BM867 / BM869. Can someone confirm?
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According to the manual the BM867s/BM869s models have a 256 second backlight. 4+ minutes seems reasonable to me.
robdejonge:
--- Quote from: mwb1100 on April 06, 2023, 08:52:59 am ---
--- Quote from: robdejonge on April 06, 2023, 07:08:50 am ---I believe these also apply to the BM867 / BM869. Can someone confirm?
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According to the manual the BM867s/BM869s models have a 256 second backlight. 4+ minutes seems reasonable to me.
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I'd agree. I thought I had seen comments about shot backlight times somewhere, but looks like that was in older firmware versions.
HKJ:
--- Quote from: mwb1100 on April 05, 2023, 03:20:03 pm ---
--- Quote from: robdejonge on April 05, 2023, 05:34:52 am ---
* Data logging is a feature I would really like. I've read however that Brymen data is really weird, so I'm wondering if I'll be able to get it working on a Linux machine without having to write software myself.
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EEVblog user HJK has written a logging program that supports a wide range of meters, including the BM867s. The software supports Linux, Windows, and Mac (it's written in Java).
- https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/program-that-can-log-from-many-multimeters/
- https://lygte-info.dk/project/TestControllerIntro%20UK.html
If you look at the eevblog thread you will see that HJK actively supports the program.
Disclaimer: I have never actually used the program, but have no reason to believe it doesn't do what HJK says it does.
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TestController only support HID interfaces on Windows and BM867 uses HID.
But BM257 has serial interface and works on any OS (Windows, Mac, Linux) supported by TestController.
Fungus:
Yeah, the backlight thing is completely stupid, I don't know what goes through their heads. Let us choose!
Why can't we hold the "light" button for three seconds to make it stay on forever? (or something like that)
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