Top notch again Dave! There are about four people around me watching it now. Looks a really nice instrument, great measurement capabilities. Does the meter not work while its charging? I thought with a low battery life you'd want to be able to test while its hooked up
No, it's unusable while charging. I forget to mention this. This is almost certainly a deliberate safety feature, as the DC jack could potentially be exposed to live voltages from the probes in this case. And it probably wouldn't meet UL type safety requirements in this case.
Seems there has been an uproar over my qualified "thumbs up" rating at the end!, so I've just made another video on this aspect. Stay tuned...
Thanks for the review - I didn't watch all the way until the end because once you had told us how it charged (through the measuring terminals so you can't use + charge) I decided it was a waste of space.
An 8 hour battery life is bad enough but if you were caught short at least you would expect to use it plugged in - who can afford to loose an hour or so because a battery runs down !?
The rattle, silly battery contacts, cheapo sockets and inaccessible fuses just add more poo to the ice cream !
Thanks for the review - I didn't watch all the way until the end because once you had told us how it charged (through the measuring terminals so you can't use + charge) I decided it was a waste of space.
An 8 hour battery life is bad enough but if you were caught short at least you would expect to use it plugged in - who can afford to loose an hour or so because a battery runs down !?
The rattle, silly battery contacts, cheapo sockets and inaccessible fuses just add more poo to the ice cream !
