On 4/26/2012 9:45 AM, Robert Macy wrote:
On Apr 26, 5:50 am, Phil Hobbs
wrote:
"hr(bob) " wrote:

On Apr 25, 1:08 pm, "William
wrote:
I was browsing eBay for cheap multimeters, and found this in the description
of the Vichy [sic] VC99...

"Dual-slop DC/AC converter..."

Must not be very accurate.

Anyone have opinions about Vichy products (other than the water)? It seems
Vichy is trying to suggest Vishay, a well-known manufacturer of high-quality
resistors.

--
"We already know the answers -- we just haven't asked the right
questions." -- Edwin Land

I like the freebie Harbor freight coupon digital multimeters. For
what I need they are fine, and I don't have to treat it with kid
gloves like I used to do with the expensive voltmeters we had at Bell
Laboratories where I worked.

You must have been there at the very end--before 1984, a fancy DMM
wouldn't have been visible above the noise at Bell.

When I was a postdoc at IBM Watson in 1988, a colleague was thinking out
loud one day about buying a fancy lock-in amplifier. "Well, it's stupid
to buy one, and I probably don't need five, so I'll order three."
Bell had money to waste like that too.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

--
Dr Philip C D Hobbs
Principal Consultant
ElectroOptical Innovations LLC
Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics

160 North State Road #203
Briarcliff Manor NY 10510
845-480-2058

hobbs at electrooptical dot nethttp://electrooptical.net

They may have had a monopoly, but at least they knew how to give great
customer service, so I personally didn't care. Even knowing the
service cost more, overall, still didn't care. Interesting, eh?

Thanks to judge Green, we don't have that black corded dial phone
on the wall anymore.
Ok maybe a little facetious, but my parents had the same phone for
35 yrs, with a few extra turns on the ringer coil I added when a teen,
to trigger some unremembered project.
Mikek