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Specmaster:
What the Fuck!, should have gotten 2 x 2 slice toasters so if that situation crops up, you plug the second one and all's well, plus if one should fail, then you are not left high and dry, well  in this instance. You should have used the CRO rule, always get at least 2 CRO's , the 2nd one to help repair the 1st if it fails |O

Seriously though, that really is a bad design flaw, it should have been treated as basically 2 x 2 slice toasters but sharing a case.  The not only would it be "green" because you would only be using half the elements if you only wanted 1 or 2 slices, but if the scenario you describe happened, then you could drop extra slices in and they would be ready independently of yours, thats a serious design fail right there. 

On other news, more TEA related, today I got my RS invoice for the calibration of the 3478A, the cost was £0.00 and seeing as I was able to do a self calibration using the limited equipment I have to hand, and it seems to be reasonable as it concurs with the various references I have and also of course the plethora of other meters, I'm kinda thinking that this needs to be flagged up to someone at RS in authority in order to prevent this from happening with anyone else's meter and it might also throw into question the validity of some of the meters that they have done and issued certificates for?

bd139:
You know what, that’s a really damn good idea. Would also mean no two days without toast due to Amazon being shit and not being able to find my house. I like toast!  Bastards!

I think you won pretty good there with the HP3478A.

Specmaster:
How do you mean "won", they didn't do anything I did it.

bd139:
Didn’t they do the DC?

Specmaster:
No, they didn't because it came back with it reading precisely the same readings it went in with, and TBH, I don't think that I did short out the RAM feed. IIRC the CAL switch was in the enable position and I think I pressed the SRQ button on one of the ranges by accident and wiped out the settings on that particular range and hence why the display was saying "Uncalibrated" because if a single range is not calibrated it won't pass the self test and that message is what it displays by default. I have since calibrated all ranges and it passes the self test and also agrees with my other meters give or take 1 or 2 mV.

EDIT. I have not calibrated the many Flukes meters I have nor the recent HP3466A and seriously doubt that they would agree with so little difference between them if the calibration was not good enough at the mV level. I don't need micro volt measurements and if I did I would get a meter designed for that level of measurement.   

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