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Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
Cerebus:
--- Quote from: mnementh on June 04, 2018, 05:26:28 pm ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on June 04, 2018, 01:54:10 pm ---Guilty party here.
The rationale for the sale is to buy a new TTi 1908 with a USB hole rather than an HP-IB hole. Thus the downsizing is a replacement operation :-DD
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Hmmm... seems to me if you're going to buy new, should get USB AND Ethernet for flexibility.
Anybody who owns one... do they look as cheap and cheesy IRL as they do in the pics on TEq's site? Cuz dayumm... those pics make Protek look good. :-DD
Getting built-in rechargeable battery power with a Kelvin connection option is nice though.
mnem
mrrrp?
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TTi kit looks a lot better in person than it does in a photograph. They do, however, go for rigid, lightweight plastic cases where the innards are light enough to permit it. If you like your gear to have a bit of heft, then TTi probably isn't for you, but if you prefer lightweight gear when it doesn't need to be heavyweight then TTi's a good fit. Unless it needs to stand up to 500lb Gorillas, prop-forwards, policemen, squadies, drummers or actors it's good gear.
mnementh:
--- Quote from: Specmaster on June 04, 2018, 04:30:11 pm ---
--- Quote from: med6753 on June 04, 2018, 04:06:48 pm ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on June 04, 2018, 02:23:19 pm ---To be fair as much as I join in the banter, she's OK with this sort of stuff because it's well under control. If only this was reciprocal :(
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Indeed. She hasn't been able to visit for a few weeks because she's been pulling weekend duty (She's a cop). And I'm not yet sure she'll be able come this weekend. In the meantime a corner of my bedroom is becoming a warehouse for her stuff. And I'm told another box or two is still to be delivered. I'm sure if I added up the cost of what's in those boxes/packages it would support my TEA for the next 2 years! :-DD :scared:
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Nah, not a chance, the parcels are too large to contain anything really expensive, even designer handbags would surely come in something a bit more substantial? at judging by my personal experience. :-DD
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Cheap packaging doesn't mean squat anymore... these all came in the cheapest single-wall corrugated cartons I've ever seen (like USPS flat-rate boxes, they were so thin), and there's $160 sitting there. I was amazed they weren't ALL smashed to sh**.
And I buy all kinds of RC hobbyist gear from China.. stuff costing $100+ with cameras and color TFT screens gets delivered in plain film baggies all the time. :wtf: Those are considerably smaller and lighter, but still... :palm:
mnem
*deliverables dwagon*
mnementh:
--- Quote from: Cerebus on June 04, 2018, 05:41:07 pm ---
--- Quote from: mnementh on June 04, 2018, 05:26:28 pm ---(SNIP) Anybody who owns one... do they (TTi 1908 meters) look as cheap and cheesy IRL as they do in the pics on TEq's site? Cuz dayumm... those pics make Protek look good. :-DD
Getting built-in rechargeable battery power with a Kelvin connection option is nice though.
mnem
mrrrp?
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TTi kit looks a lot better in person than it does in a photograph. They do, however, go for rigid, lightweight plastic cases where the innards are light enough to permit it. If you like your gear to have a bit of heft, then TTi probably isn't for you, but if you prefer lightweight gear when it doesn't need to be heavyweight then TTi's a good fit. Unless it needs to stand up to 500lb Gorillas, prop-forwards, policemen, squadies, drummers or actors it's good gear.
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Fair enough... it comes with battery power built-in; which is nice when the need for for isolation arises, and of course if you need to GO SOMEWHERE with it. In that case, light & convenient is probably better.
Thanks for the second opinion. :-+
mnem
*still nuking my wife's old Saturn... yesterday & today have been "New windshield & headliner" time*
Specmaster:
--- Quote from: mnementh on June 04, 2018, 05:55:47 pm ---
--- Quote from: Cerebus on June 04, 2018, 05:41:07 pm ---
--- Quote from: mnementh on June 04, 2018, 05:26:28 pm ---(SNIP) Anybody who owns one... do they (TTi 1908 meters) look as cheap and cheesy IRL as they do in the pics on TEq's site? Cuz dayumm... those pics make Protek look good. :-DD
Getting built-in rechargeable battery power with a Kelvin connection option is nice though.
mnem
mrrrp?
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TTi kit looks a lot better in person than it does in a photograph. They do, however, go for rigid, lightweight plastic cases where the innards are light enough to permit it. If you like your gear to have a bit of heft, then TTi probably isn't for you, but if you prefer lightweight gear when it doesn't need to be heavyweight then TTi's a good fit. Unless it needs to stand up to 500lb Gorillas, prop-forwards, policemen, squadies, drummers or actors it's good gear.
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Fair enough... it comes with battery power built-in; which is nice when the need for for isolation arises, and of course if you need to GO SOMEWHERE with it. In that case, light & convenient is probably better.
Thanks for the second opinion. :-+
mnem
*still nuking my wife's old Saturn... yesterday & today have been "New windshield & headliner" time*
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Also of course it means if your looking for a system of TTi's or similar items then because of their light weight, you can stack them in ergonomic order rather being forced to have the heavy ones at the bottom.
Mr. Scram:
--- Quote from: mnementh on November 04, 1974, 04:08:38 pm ---Hmmm... seems to me if you're going to buy new, should get USB AND Ethernet for flexibility.
Anybody who owns one... do they look as cheap and cheesy IRL as they do in the pics on TEq's site? Cuz dayumm... those pics make Protek look good. :-DD
Getting built-in rechargeable battery power with a Kelvin connection option is nice though.
mnem
mrrrp?
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No, they look and feel fairly shitty in real life too. The uptick is that's it's quality kit otherwise and not stupidly expensive. Buying replacement parts is also possible, for very fair prices. Can you image Keysight charging 25 quid to replace a dozen parts that make up the entire outer shell? You win some and lose some.
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