Gents, In the market for a new bench meter, 4-1/2 digits is sufficient. To my surprise I saw on their web site that B&K is an American company which, of course, I'd gladly support. Is it true for their meters and stuff that they are at least engineered here? Are they good? Looking at the 2831E: I really like VF displays, much more so than LCD. -- Regards, Joerg

1E: I've got a hand held B&K DMM. I like it, pretty much the same readings as a more expensive fluke, whenever I've checked. I've also got a bench voltmeter from Keithley (2100), 6/12 digits, not much more than the B&K. George H.

B&K Precision bench multimeters, good?

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josephkk 13 years ago

On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 23:34:55 +0100, cLx you're getting a new version of ms-windows, for example.

Incorrect. It is that they have been included since the DOS days. Same deal in unix/linux even MacOS-X (now a unix derivative).

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Jasen Betts 13 years ago

Some them perhaps. Windows doesn't come with a driver for the popular PL2303 clone chips, the SiLabs CP21xx chips need a driver installed too, or did last time I checked.

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Fred Abse 13 years ago

RS232 support is built into the linux kernel. but only if it is included at compile time. It's also necessary to mknod the appropriate device special file.

Whether all the latest distros include it, I don't know. You can always build a new kernel if it isn't.

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