Lenny,
Yep, about as "universal" as "universal design"

Tom

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 06:24:33PM -0500, Lenny McHugh wrote:
> Tom, great report. When I first stumbled upon the site it sounded like 
> something that the blind community could benefit.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tom Fowle" <fo...@ski.org>
> To: "blindHandyMan" <blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 5:24 PM
> Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Re: Omega UV1000 parital report:
> 
> 
> Some folks revently asked about the Omega engineering
> UV1000, (Universal voice) module.
> 
> We bought one and I can give a partial report.
> 
> Unfortunagely the didn't include the special programming cable
> so i can't yet report on there software that lets you change spoken
> scalings and units.
> 
> this is essentially a programmable talking volt/current/temperature
> meter for $239/00
> 
> It can operate from 2 AA cells, lithium AA's included or an external power
> supply, also included.  The box is about 1 by 3 by 5 inches and
> has the speaker rite where it belongs, on the back!
> On the front are 3 holes for test leads, common, current and voltage, and a
> connector for the thermocouple with 2 flat pins.
> 
> the top edge contains 2 switches, on/off and continuous/command talk.
> and 3 jacks, power, earphone, and RS232 for the cable they left out.
> 
> As shipped the unit measures 0-10 volts D.C. and 4-20Ma current, a common
> range used in industrial instrumentation as well as reading the included
> thermocouple.
> 
> When you set up there software you can program different input ranges to
> produce your desired output readings and appropriate units.
> 
> for example if you had it hooked to a pressure guage which measured 0-100PSI
> and produced 0-5 volts output, you could program it to read 100 pounds when 
> the voltage
> reading was 5 volts.
> 
> I'll report more on the software when I get the calbe.
> 
> Unfortunately this device is anything but universal,
> it has no means of reading digital data, even if there were a
> standard for transmitting such data which there really isn't
> 
> them's the fundamentals, I'd stick to our old favorite chinese talking meter
> from MPJA for $43.00, if you really need temperature measurements you can 
> get
> temperature probes for similar meters.
> 
> On the subject of instrumentation standards, I think our best bet is that 
> more
> and more devices are being "network enabled" so that at least minimal tcp/ip
> and ppp standards are used and probably many such devices use web type 
> interfaces
> making it at least somewhat likely that they might just be accessible.
> 
> So don't buy an Omega UV1000 unless you really need one,
> and again, don't buy from Omega and tell them you're blind,
> they're paranoid.
> 
> 
> Tom Fowle
> 
> 
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