Wow looks likze I finally found my bench DMM !
https://www.leboncoin.fr/equipements_industriels/2104828351.htmA 34401A DMM for half price ?! 250 Euros ! Guy pretends it works... looks like new, it's a modern Agilent branded one, VFD looks even an bright... what's the catch ? These HP DMM/counter/DDS usually sell for twice that, 500 Euros..; or have prices plummeted recently and nobody told me ?
Maybe it's fucked .. but then same goes for all the other ones sold at 500 so...
Of course seller will say he can't test anything, no test leads etc...so won't even bother asking... but maybe if there is a self test this thing perform on its own ? A magic key combination to trigger it ? Or some menu somewhere ? I guess if tell the guy/gal what button to press, in what sequence... he could reasonably be expected to do it... maybe.
Worse case if it really is fucked and not repairable. I can just flog it on ebay and probably get my money back and some more !
Or do you sense something obviously wrong / fishy here, am I being naïve... and I should just keep my money and add some more for more modern unit with graphical LCD that can do stats and all, like Cerebus has ??
ALSO from this seller... another item I am interested in : an electronic load. 400 Euros so quite expensive but... it's a nice TTi unit and is beefy at 400 Watts !!!
https://www.leboncoin.fr/equipements_industriels/2102353188.htmI vaguely researched DC loads a while back and it seems that they cost about that much money, but for Chinese stuff, and that do only 150W.
No ? So this TTi looks great value for money what do you think ? Or am I again missing something obvious here... maybe voltage range is too limited compared to modern units ? It does 80 Volts.
TTi stuff is hard to come by over here, so it's not like I can count on seeing another one of these.
Looking at the rear panel though, it's got zero options... not GPIB... no RS232, no USB no LAN no nothing... and I now realize, looking at the pic of the back of the unit, it looks like the cooling fan is missing ?!
Hmmm... this unit was messed with maybe... which means the Agilent DMM probably was too, hence why it's cheap, he is trying to flog it... am suspicious now !
Might be why it has zero I/O at the back as well... can't believe TTi would sell a fancy unit like this without ANY knd of I/O.... I bet the guy didn't just pull the cooling fan, he pulled the I/O board as well !
And I don't need 400 watts.... pfff.... OK, it's more reasonable to spend the money on a brand new unit, that's under warranty, more compact, "only" 150+ Watts, good enough for me, and GPIB and other I/O.... yeah. But it sucks, because I love this generation of TTi gear, love this industrial design !
Maybe I should keep my money that I don't even have... instead of making my financial situation even much worse than it already is
BUT IT'S TEMPTING !!!