Product Design FAIL!

You forgot to hit him with the rubber chicken. :(

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Should you expect to be able to push the buttons with the tilting bail?, lets find out:

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Oh well, guess one can't argue with that.

Sylvia.

So it is written. :-)

Loved the "Outtake time!" Dave.

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These products will reduce in price by 5% every month:

Are those all the meters you are reviewing? I'd be interested in the results.

Cheers

I have these things called "opposable thumbs." Maybe I should post a video blog and show people how they work.

Hey, I can do the Hitchhiker's Thumb thing. Who else can/can't?

John

5 of them, yes, in the $100 shootout. Some others I already have reviewed (Flukes 87, 28, Agilent, Gossen, + 5 x $50 ones), and some are just old meters I had lying around.

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I hope you are not declaring those as candidates for a 'line-up'.

At least not as references for their model.

I have one hitchhiker's thumb (left). I hear that's unusual, i.e. less usual than both.

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I've always thought that asymmetric people were more interesting.

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Only one "hand" actually. It would be *VERY* difficult to operate when strapped to your wrist IF it took two HANDS! I did own one, and it was no great problem to operate IMO. Far easier to view in the dark than any other watch, but not so great in bright sunshine, and far too heavy on battery use. And the button tended to wear out quickly because you had to press it so often, and it wasn't high enough quality for that. All in all a short lived fad, but not so much for the reason you give.

MrT.

Short lived fad? You're nuts. LCDs did not come out until the 70s had passed. That makes LED watches and calculators more than a mere fad. Electronic displays, which is what we are really talking about here, are STILL going, so there is no fad about it. D'oh!

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** The first LCD watch appeared within months of the first LED example and both types were initially quite expensive. But that soon changed and LCD types became very cheap indeed by 1980.

Seems LED watches are making a come back for those who want to own something different - like this affordable BINARY display example:

.... Phil

My first scientific calculator was a Commodore and it used about 650mA rate with the mantissa full, and about 350mA with it and the memories blank. Needless to say that it was only used when needed. Now, with modern times, folks do not even think about power issues, and solar power is common.

We had to use slide rules for a half year before we were allowed to use a calculator. The thing I hated most about calculators is having to learn operational twists between each maker's units.

Is that why they call him AlwaysWrong? Yep.

And now for something completely different....

Seeing that binary watch gave me an idea, maybe we older folk can finally get back at all those nasty kids for knowing much more than us about using the latest technology, but rarely having any idea about how it works. We'll have them learn to rely on binary clocks for telling the time. A bit harsh I suppose but at least there'd be much more of an understanding by the young, of the digital era we are now in and how it works. Lets face it, the binary system is now much infused in the area of electronics, software and data storage. The earlier taught, the better. So lets roll em' out starting in year one.(OK, maybe a bit later)

Mark Kelepouris

Calcultors yes, watches NO. Most people simply stuck with the mechanical ones.

Nope, try reading it again, it was claimed a LED *WATCH* needed two hand to operate. Nothing to do with calculators!

MrT.

You try reading it again. Electronic displays have EVERYTHING to do with calculators, watches, stereos, etc., etc., etc.