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| I wish all test lead probes had threads for accessories like Probe Master! |
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| TomKatt:
Just got myself a set of Probe Master 8000 series "softie" test leads. As nice as the probes are themselves, what I really love are the large assortment of accessories available - especially the screw-on alligator clips and spring hooks. I use alligator clips and hooks all the time for no-handed measurements, and the ones that friction fit on the probe tip inevitably get loose and they fall off with the lightest movement. The screw-on clips and hooks are nice and solid, and every Probe Master part has a nice quality fit & finish. I'm a bit surprised this style of threaded probe tip is not more common. I was hoping that these accessories would also fit Dave's BM235 leads, but it looks like those threads are smaller 2mm while the Probe Master threads are 4mm... The Brymen screw-on banana adapters seem to disappear when you take your eyes off them - the idea is nice, but they got misplaced too easily. While not threaded, their scope probes also have a very large assortment of accessories available. So in addition to getting high quality made in the US leads, the shear number of options is almost worth the price of admission. |
| ebastler:
--- Quote from: TomKatt on November 14, 2023, 06:32:51 pm ---I was hoping that these accessories would also fit Dave's BM235 leads, but it looks like those threads are smaller 2mm while the Probe Master threads are 4mm... --- End quote --- The ProbeMaster threads are #8-32 UNC, apparently -- not for users on this side of the pond... The probes that came with my Brymen 257s have M2.5 threads. |
| TomKatt:
That's too bad. But I am surprised that this design has not become more universally popular - it really works quite well. |
| ebastler:
A pity they didn't agree on one thread size. But ProbeMaster might have been first, and maybe Brymen (or whoever makes their probes) preferred a metric thread? I do agree that the Brymen banana adapters are very easy to lose. I still have both of mine, after several years of use -- but only after I retrieved one of them from a corner on the floor of a friend's lab, when I visited him again weeks later... |
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