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Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
Specmaster:
My main test equipment is going to be HP, TTi, Fluke and Advance backed up with CRO's from HP, Hitachi and Iwatsu with a few small selection of Chinese bits.
Just had another quote for the 3478A, from PASS for £101.40 so the RS quote is looking like a real bargain.
bd139:
Similar here.
Really I'd like to build all my own test gear but I don't have the time (yet). I've managed a few bits so far.
I bought a cheap shitty DMM from PASS years ago and they send me a bloody letter every year reminding me to calibrate it :palm: ... my 5 year old uses it as a toy now (minus probes of course!)
Specmaster:
Haha, that's what I'm going to get from RS now then, an annual reminder that the bench meter needs re-calibrating...NO they don't HP meters retain their calibrations for bloody years :popcorn:
Mr. Scram:
--- Quote from: Specmaster on May 01, 2018, 12:18:37 pm ---Just a chat with the calibration dept of RS and it seems that the definitive answer to the "traceable calibration" and the "UKAS" calibration apart from the price, is the traceable one is applicable only to the UK which I would suggest is the most suitable for British members whereas the UKAS is an international calibration certificate that is world wide approval. The actual level of calibration is identical, just the documentation it seems is what changes.
I have my quotation now and its £50.40 with collection and delivery included and the normal turn round is a working week. This is slightly cheaper then their published calibration price list which shows a bench multimeter as being £54 or £83 for a UKAS certificate.
I'm guessing that this is because the 3478A only goes up to 300V whereas most go up to 1,000v?
--- End quote ---
That's actually suprisingly doable. Maybe it pays to check what it costs to calibrate my meter. Even though the DMMCheck gives a lot of certainty, an actual calibration would be nice. It could serve as the standard for the rest.
Specmaster:
That's right. I have to have mine done cos I fucked up with the solder while changing the battery, but now I'll be able use that as a transfer standard to all my other meters, not so much on the DC side as my voltage reference does that pretty well, but I was thinking for the current, ACV and the resistance ranges and as all my other meters have manual adjusts via pots and trimmers, I can then easily adjust those to read the same for any given test.
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