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Products => Test Equipment => Topic started by: zapta on April 05, 2014, 07:42:33 am

Title: The mystery of the HP E3610A DC binding post colors
Post by: zapta on April 05, 2014, 07:42:33 am
After watching Dave's eevblog #166 I decided to get a HP E3610A DC power supply and today I picked one I bought on ebay. When I arrived home and tried to use it I noticed something very strange, the colors of the binding posts are red/red/black while Dave's unit had red/black/green (a better IMO).

http://youtu.be/-04CQ0Mug1o (http://youtu.be/-04CQ0Mug1o)

A quick ebay search that indeed that model come with two different color combinations:

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=HP+E3610A&_armrs=1&_from=R8&_ipg= (http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=HP+E3610A&_armrs=1&_from=R8&_ipg=)

Anybody knows the reason for the color variation?   I find the red/black/green to be more intuitive.

(mine is 120V US unit, made in Korea).