Suggestion: Test equipment Wiki

[tszaboo]

I have a suggestion to make. We should put our heads together and create a Wiki for test equipment.
We should start probably with something simple, like multimeters and see if this works, or not.

The main reason for this would be the scarcity of information. Manufacturers disappear, or they discontinue a product, and all the info on their product page just disappears. For example if I search for the basic DCV accuracy of a Fluke 8840A, there is no easy way of finding it. I either have to download the instruction manual from Fluke, and search for the tables, or got to some third party website and look at incomplete specification.

Dave, I'm wondering if you would be interested of web hosting this? It could be under the EEVBLOG wiki.
I know maintaining a wiki is not a small task, but there is definitely a need for this.

[Old Don]

Sometimes the Wayback Machine will have a stored web page or two with the information you need. Not often that it will have any of the downloads, just the web pages. Helps if you have the full www.... address to enter!

See:     https://archive.org/web/

[tszaboo]

Well, I guess it was a bad idea.

[TiN]

Maybe not bad idea, but just not feasible as hobby. It's a hard and very time consuming work even just to structure and format all the stuff.
I mean look at nearby thread about DMMs to get the idea.

Hosting is not even a question, that is zero problems today. So I'd think you definately underestimate "small task" here . I have ~200 articles on my site and I spent at least 10 times more time refining the content and correcting for mistakes, than actual fixing gear or running the test. And that is still, limited to only what I'm interested about, not everything out there, not even 0.001%.

[tszaboo]

Maybe not bad idea, but just not feasible as hobby. It's a hard and very time consuming work even just to structure and format all the stuff.
I mean look at nearby thread about DMMs to get the idea.

Hosting is not even a question, that is zero problems today. So I'd think you definately underestimate "small task" here . I have ~200 articles on my site and I spent at least 10 times more time refining the content and correcting for mistakes, than actual fixing gear or running the test. And that is still, limited to only what I'm interested about, not everything out there, not even 0.001%.

And that is why I'm suggesting a wiki. Something which is crowd sourced, and not maintained by one person. Right now, all this information is scattered around the web, not structured, not maintained, and lost.