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| J-R:
Running the backlight on the Brymen DMMs pulls a lot of extra power (2x-4x depending on the model), so the already short battery life would be greatly reduced. It was perhaps a wise marketing decision to have a short backlight timeout to avoid having the Brymens be labelled as excessively battery hungry. |
| Fungus:
--- Quote from: J-R on April 06, 2023, 07:40:57 pm ---... avoid having the Brymens be labelled as excessively battery hungry. --- End quote --- Instead they get labelled as having useless backlights? I don't see how that's better. |
| J-R:
Brymen's backlight and auto-power-off behavior is similar to many DMMs where it is a common design choice in order to help the user avoid constantly picking up a tool expecting to be able to use it but instead finding a dead battery... |
| Fungus:
--- Quote from: J-R on April 07, 2023, 06:25:51 am ---Brymen's backlight and auto-power-off behavior is similar to many DMMs where it is a common design choice in order to help the user avoid constantly picking up a tool expecting to be able to use it but instead finding a dead battery... --- End quote --- By that logic they should make flashlights with auto-power-off... :-// |
| mwb1100:
Just for the record, the BM257s is a fine multimeter. But as often happens, I found imperfections that I cannot "unsee" - even if they are actually of little consequence. Kind of like when a stupid song gets into your head and just plays itself over and over. It took me more than a year before I tried to light up an LED - and I probably wouldn't do it again for another year. On the plus side, it actually won't happen again, because every time I pickup the meter now the earworm of "oh yeah - this doesn't light LEDs" pops into my head. Even though lighting up LEDs was (until that moment) the furthest thing from my mind. (Cripes - I just wrote an entire paragraph about lighting up LEDs... :palm:) And in principle I have no problem with auto shutoff for backlights. But the 15s timer that many meters implement is just plain stupid. And 30s is irritating (bordering on stupid). Give me at least a minute, or implement Fungus' excellent idea of an extra long button press to turn on the backlight with no timeout (or a 10 minute timeout if the meter's designer is really concerned that I'll use up too many of my batteries). |
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