Introduction to the Agilent 34461A Digital Multimeter, 6½ Digit Truevolt DMM
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See your results clearly on a bright, 4.3-inch (109 mm), high-resolution, color graphical display. Get answers faster using the intuitive, menu-driven interface. If you have questions about a key or functionality, press and hold the key to display built-in help on the subject.
Customize display operation to meet your needs. Configure your preferences and pull them up automatically at the next instrument start-up.
Add customized labels to describe the instrument’s measurement your way.
Get quick insight with graphical views of your measurement results: View readings, long-term trends and measurement histograms for a statistical view.
Save and document your DMM’s data to your PC or mobile device using your preferred I/O:
Control, capture and view your DMM’s data on your PC with a single click using the Digital Multimeter Connectivity Utility via USB, GPIB, LAN, or RS-232 (for older generation Agilent DMMs).
Easily access the fi les on your DMM using drag-and-drop to transfer fi les via USB – no software required.
Choose the I/O that works best for you: USB, LAN/LXI Core (optional on 34460A), GPIB (optional on 34460A & 34461A).
Easily access the front-panel USB memory connector.
Blogging Challenge
Successful RoadTesters will be invited to blog on the Test & Measurement area in addition to providing the standard RoadTest review of the product; the blogs should fully describe use of the product in practical scenarios. Blogs should incorporate videos and images whenever possible. The winner will be announced on Monday, October 28, 2013 and a Grand Prize of a bundle of Truevolt Measurement Tools will be awarded shortly thereafter.
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Terms & Conditions
Testers will be selected on the basis of quality of applications: we expect a full and complete description of why you want to test this particular product and your approach for blogging about it.
Testers are required to produce a full, comprehensive and well thought out review, we also expect a minimum of 3 blog posts about this product in the Test & Measurement area of element14. Both are due by October 25, 2013.
Failure to provide the review and blogs within the above timescale will result in the enrollee being excluded from future Road Tests.
Please bear with us, our export department is getting the shipments ready. As for the deadlines, these will obviously be extended to deal with the issue you describe.
I too am still waiting, I emailed today to find out what the shipping status, and then came here to see.
From the looks of the testers we have: Australia, Canada, Germany, UK, and the USA.
That's a very wide range of destinations to get the product out to.
I'll almost certainly miss the deadline (due to prior travel arrangements) if it doesn't get here in the next few days (still going to do the review and blogs though).
Newark and Farnell may show no stock, but element14 (AU) doesn't even have the 61A listed (still has the older 01A model), so it'll be interesting to see when (and from where) all our products acually arrive.
I agree - to give the multimeters a review that is worthwhile and one that does them justice, it is going to take more than a few days. If we were all to receive the multimeters on Monday (which seems reasonable if they were sent out tommorrow, considering the variety of destinations and that we don't know where they are coming from) then it only gives us a weekend and whatever time we can spare during the weekday evenings, which might make things a little difficult or result in lower quality reviews.
So, I would definitely be for moving the due date by a week or two.
Ian
P.S. - I do really wonder where they are coming from as both Farnell and Newark are showing no stock, with new stock due in on the 1st November and 25th October, respectively.
@Mark +1 I would also be interested in understanding what people expect from video content. I beleive video content is an important part of on-line content, any advice on how to make content better would be greatfully received.
Your comment on video in Road Tests is of interest to me. I have noticed that most of the user video content posted to Element14 is barely being viewed by the community, based on the view counter associated with each thumbnail.
My impression is that many think like you do; that the typical user produced video on Element14 does not offer an efficeint means to get to the meat of the review. If I have misunderstood you, please correct me.
Video content, even bad video content, takes time to produce and upload. If the majority of user posted video content is not being watched by community members then I suggest this aspect of reviews needs to be examined with the intent of making user videos more appealing. I think video can be useful, but it must be produced with care and attention to the needs of the viewer.
Perhaps best practice guidelines for producing simple but meaningful video content should be shared with reviewers. I enjoy producing video content, but if no one is viewing it or getting useful insights from it then I will concentrate on writing text reviews illustrated with pictures.
There are two things you might like to consider in addition to the criteria you have discussed re. choosing road testers:
1) Knowledge of the product - there is a video circulating on the web of a "Road Test" of a $250k scope by a chap in what looks like his kitchen - he runs the scope suppliers demos and that 's it. I've seen others where most of the review is devoted to talking about getting the gizmo out of the cardboard box.
2) Use of video - IMO there is far too much of it - there a couple of good video bloggers in the electronic test business and an awful of of poor ones (doing a good one takes talent at doing video). It is much quicker to scan through some text than a video. I certainly don't have time to spend several minutes on every article that catches my eye - I need to be able to sort out what I want to spend time on quickly and that's much harder with videos. And the bad ones are mind numbingly awful !
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Gerrit -
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