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| Howardlong:
I'll test the water here. What is the justification for blowing $3,000 on a 7.5 digit dmm? I am desperately trying to keep an open mind, but it is my head that's saying besides a very, very, very few edge cases this has strong parallels to audiophoolery. Please educate me! |
| Sbampato12:
--- Quote from: AndyC_772 on March 03, 2015, 12:49:17 pm ---I don't mind paying for features that take time and effort to develop. I spent about £600 on serial decoding for my Agilent scope, and it was well worth it. Enabling the use of memory that's already there is just removing an arbitrary limit, though. There's no design effort, no innovation. They've done something similar with their BenchVue software. The basic version is free, which is great, but if you want to data log for more than 1 hour, you have to buy the 'pro' version for another £128 (and even more, if you want to log data from other types of instrument). --- End quote --- Yep, I agree with you, I was just pointing that. On other side, doing this kind of thing, they could (it is only a possibility) get the hardware cheaper since it is one hardware to all. The people that really need those extra options, and buy, helps (more) to pay the development of the product for all. One way, and only just one ( :) ) to see it, is, as hobbyst or small company you are capable to buy a little bit better product, if they charge more in the extras. And if you need that extra, then, you PROBABLY doesn't matter to pay for it (or choose other brand). Personally, I don't like to know that exist a lot of memory avaliable inside my gear, and I do not could use..... And, for me, as a bench DMM, they could apply all extras as standards, see how many years they have the 34401 or 3548, so many years you dissolve your costs of development, and get over others brands (perhaps) by some capabilityes. |
| Sbampato12:
--- Quote from: Howardlong on March 03, 2015, 03:26:12 pm ---I'll test the water here. What is the justification for blowing $3,000 on a 7.5 digit dmm? I am desperately trying to keep an open mind, but it is my head that's saying besides a very, very, very few edge cases this has strong parallels to audiophoolery. Please educate me! --- End quote --- If you could pay a lot more on a 8.5 digit dmm, why not on a 7.5 digits? Some cases you need, and when you need, you need. |
| Howardlong:
--- Quote from: Sbampato12 on March 03, 2015, 04:50:32 pm --- --- Quote from: Howardlong on March 03, 2015, 03:26:12 pm ---I'll test the water here. What is the justification for blowing $3,000 on a 7.5 digit dmm? I am desperately trying to keep an open mind, but it is my head that's saying besides a very, very, very few edge cases this has strong parallels to audiophoolery. Please educate me! --- End quote --- If you could pay a lot more on a 8.5 digit dmm, why not on a 7.5 digits? Some cases you need, and when you need, you need. --- End quote --- But what are those cases? :-// |
| mrflibble:
--- Quote from: Howardlong on March 03, 2015, 04:58:32 pm --- --- Quote from: Sbampato12 on March 03, 2015, 04:50:32 pm ---If you could pay a lot more on a 8.5 digit dmm, why not on a 7.5 digits? Some cases you need, and when you need, you need. --- End quote --- But what are those cases? :-// --- End quote --- Measuring the long term stability of that new Calibratory D-105 DC Precision Voltage Reference Standard. ;) |
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