Should Handheld multimeters have color LCD displays?

Happy new year and new scope day to you! 

I still enjoy using it, I love the display! I was just probing usb-pd

Working on my own pd interface too...

My Keysight is super waterproof, so it is a bit of an exercise to get at the battery. Fortunately its battery lasts a long time. It does raise the question, Should a waterproof meter use a color display?

Nice work! Very neat seeing that is possible on a handheld instrument. 

Not exactly color LCD, but different! : ) I recently bought a multimeter with OLED display. Mainly because it was cheap for the features!

It's model PCE-ODM 10 from the dodgiest looking website ever - even after ordering, I still wasn't convinced that I had not fallen for a scam, but surprisingly it was delivered swiftly. It is a rebadged CEM DT-9968 (but the CEM specification is incorrect; it states that the granularity is 100mV for instance, but I wouldn't have bought it if it was!). 

It seems fine, usable, but the menu system is pretty bad, I can't even figure out how to set the time correctly, and whoever coded the software didn't do a good job handling user input versus display update.

But, as long as I stick to normal measurements, it seems fine. It also came with a load of accessories (even an AC current clamp! and case) so I can't complain for the price. 

The display is really nice, readable from all angles and from a distance, indoors (where I will be using it). Even under desk lighting it is readable. However, the plastic panel over it is curved, which doesn't help with taking photos of it, there will be some discoloration due to polarization (the photo above shows it on the battery indicator, and the digits 2 and 3 at the bottom). Also, it flickers at video frame rates (fine for very short videos perhaps).

Inside photo:

There's a Bluetooth version too, but I don't see the point, it's not going to be a meter I'm going to use for (say) logging functions, due to the menu being not that great.

Also, I wish the firmware would display the meter range (it uses the decimal place to imply it, versus just displaying the max value like normal Fluke, Keysight meters, etc), and I really don't like that.

This is wonderful, I think one of your lastest photos summarizes my experience with multimeter displays:

(Source:  Easy Grounding for USB Soldering Irons ) 

It is easier to see the display on your soldering iron versus your multimeter!

That's a very nice looking multimeter!

scottiebabe , have you been able to talk (scpi) with the oscilloscope? It's not coming up as a test device, has no USB serial interface and LabVIEW doesn't know how to connect to it.

I have a manual for the instructions, but could not locate a connection manual. My google-fu hasn't gotten me further yet.

Someone on the eevblog posted a sample python script using pyusb, that is what I have been using. All credit to the forum author not me!

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/owon-hds-200-handheld-oscilloscope-w-builtin-dmmawg/?action=dlattach;attach=1247503 

Using pyusb is surprising simple! I presume labview might let you do the same thing quite easily too

Great! it has the 0x03 and 0x81 bulk out and in handles. I think I can start from that

I believe it is 0x01 and 0x81

My scopemeter has the same vid/pid as my f-gen (which I believe is the same vid/pid as yours) so in pyusb I had to add one more search parameter to ensure I was talking to the right thing! 

dev = usb.core.find(idVendor=0x5345, idProduct=0x1234,product='oscilloscope')

I have it working in the NI VISA resource testbed:

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