Re: [volt-nuts] *WAY* too expensive for even Keysight to redesign
Overall, I agree that a voltmeter such as the 3458A may not be cost effective any more to redesign all functions from the ground up. Consider that Fluke has re-released the Datron 1281 as its 8508 voltmeter. A quick view of the specs shows that Fluke has made marginal improvements to the DC volt side, good improvements to the DC current and Resistance side, but largely left the AC volt and AC current performance alone. Never mind the 8508A 20A current range, which seems to me like a bolted on afterthought. Fluke has added functionality for PRT measurements, and replaced the vacuum display with an LCD. Does anyone want to check if Fluke kept the 68000 processor and its architecture ? regards, ben Original Message From: Poul-Henning Kamp p...@phk.freebsd.dk Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 4:55 PM To: Discussion of precise voltage measurement volt-nuts@febo.com, John Phillips john.philli...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [volt-nuts] *WAY* too expensive for even Keysight to redesign In message CANEyv6aTuFHYa17nkx3F7zTWqerTiC1o=D=fcz8sxar3zgp...@mail.gmail.com , John Phillips writes: I would think that a lot of the patents would be running out soon as if that would make any difference. I wrote copyright, not patent. Thanks to Disney copyright never runs out as long as a lawyer cares. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. ___ volt-nuts mailing list -- volt-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volt-nuts and follow the instructions there. ___ volt-nuts mailing list -- volt-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volt-nuts and follow the instructions there.
Re: [volt-nuts] *WAY* too expensive for even Keysight to redesign
Hi, Fluke has ... replaced the vacuum display with an LCD. I'm starting to worry about the great US test gear manufacturers :) Alan ___ volt-nuts mailing list -- volt-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volt-nuts and follow the instructions there.
Re: [volt-nuts] *WAY* too expensive for even Keysight to redesign
I think most of the top companies were founded by scientists and engineers and because of their roots in the scientific community they were very customer driven, but it seems recently most of the test and measurement companies have become stock-holder driven as the management with a background in science retire. In addition many of these large companies buy up the small start-ups from the Scientist and engineers that created them as an alternative to in house RD. Once purchased they are quickly transisioned to the stock-holder driven model. Sadly in some cases I think the philosophy is to buy all the competitors and control the market to the point that they don't need to provide the same level of products, support, and service we enjoyed in the past since there are few alternatives. In this paradigm shift I think Keysight is better then most. I keep hoping they design a new meter to replace the 3458A or at least redesign the digital portion with a more freindly user interface, per haps a menu driven color touch screen and the ability to stored and display data graphically. Who knows they may have something in the works. Thomas Knox From: alan.ambr...@anagram.net To: volt-nuts@febo.com Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 16:36:38 + Subject: Re: [volt-nuts] *WAY* too expensive for even Keysight to redesign Hi, Fluke has ... replaced the vacuum display with an LCD. I'm starting to worry about the great US test gear manufacturers :) Alan ___ volt-nuts mailing list -- volt-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volt-nuts and follow the instructions there. ___ volt-nuts mailing list -- volt-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volt-nuts and follow the instructions there.
