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GerryBags:


 :-DD They've made it illegal now.... spoilsports!

bitseeker:

--- Quote from: Specmaster on May 02, 2018, 03:12:00 pm ---Well another quote is in, this one is £108 which includes return carriage but carriage to them is not covered so thats extra, so here's a top tip for the UK members, unless you really do require to have a certificate that is recognised world wide, then RS in Corby seems to be the best bet. Even with the world wide approval of UKAS certification, they still have managed to beat every quote so far by a large margin and included in their quote is the collection and return delivery of the meter so I don't think that they are going to beaten...unless you know otherwise?

Maybe this tip might be added to the POI?

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With pleasure. Added.

bitseeker:

--- Quote from: bd139 on May 02, 2018, 01:17:14 pm ---Nabbed a Leader 17A signal generator for £31 off ebay as untested. These things literally have nothing in them to go wrong. If they aren't smashed they will probably work. This is a very much cloned instrument by the Chinese. Lots of inferior clones exist out there, including historically from crap shifters Maplin. But alas this is the original made in Japan unit which has superior capacitors and surprisingly high tech innards!

I like these because of the manual control (try manually filter sweeping a synthesizer or finding the resonant point of a double tuned circuit - kill me!) and the price.



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Neat. I hadn't seen inside one of these before. The clones certainly are prevalent on the 'bay. Added to the PoI index.

orin:

--- Quote from: med6753 on May 02, 2018, 11:13:35 am ---
--- Quote from: Specmaster on May 02, 2018, 10:31:30 am ---The latest addition to my gear arrived today, a HP3466A but sadly because of poor packing, the handle is in 2 parts. It was all nicely wrapped up in bubble-wrap, but instead of folding the handle down and back so it tucks up between the feet, it was wrapped up out straight in front of the meter and suffered as a result :palm:. The seller has given me a £5 refund so thats helped.



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Similar thing happen on a Fluke 8600A. But luckily it was just one corner rather than completely broken. Epoxy fixed it up.

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Those handles on that kind of case always break.  It's just a matter of when.  Just glue them back together and be glad it didn't break while you were carrying it and let the meter smash all over the floor.

bitseeker:
Speaking of handles, do you all actually use them? Although I've kept them on the instruments thus far so as not to misplace them, I find them to just be in the way and interfere with a nicely stacked arrangement.

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