Re: [volt-nuts] EU3458A - what appears to be a 3458A for sales in the European Union only

2018-05-15 Thread Dr. Frank
In message <7862525b-4879-0c7c-c13a-9a6c1f4a3...@freenet.de>, "Dr. Frank" write s: Up to then, it was easy to buy and insert four 62256 SRAMs and get the 01 option for maybe 30€. I've done that directly in 1989, for my first 3458A @ university, later in 2009 for my own hp3458A (2001 vin

Re: [volt-nuts] EU3458A - what appears to be a 3458A for sales in the European Union only

2018-05-15 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <7862525b-4879-0c7c-c13a-9a6c1f4a3...@freenet.de>, "Dr. Frank" write s: >Up to then, it was easy to buy and insert four 62256 SRAMs and get the >01 option for maybe 30€. >I've done that directly in 1989, for my first 3458A @ university, later >in 2009 for my own hp3458A (2001

[volt-nuts] EU3458A - what appears to be a 3458A for sales in the European Union only

2018-05-15 Thread Dr. Frank
Hello David, the 3458A is not offered any more by the usual distributors here in Germany, like datatec or Meilhouse. That's due to EU:RoHS directive , i.e. leadfree soldering is required, and the last exemption for 'measuring and displaying devices' ran out as of July 2017. So KS found a w

Re: [volt-nuts] EU3458A - what appears to be a 3458A for sales in the European Union only.

2018-05-14 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 14 May 2018 at 13:01, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > I'm puzzled why option 002, an upgrade of memory to 128 kb, is still an > option one has to pay for. With the cost of RAM what it is now, I'm > suprised the memor is not not standard. Perhaps the only way Keysight can > provide 128 kb is to use o

[volt-nuts] EU3458A - what appears to be a 3458A for sales in the European Union only.

2018-05-14 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
This struck me as a bit odd - an EU3458A 8.5 digit multimeter. I thought at first that perhaps it had been re-engineered to use lead-free solder, but on reading the description, that's not the case. https://www.keysight.com/en/pd-2831253-pn-EU3458A/digital- multimeter-8-digit-for-eu-sales-only?nid