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<blockquote data-quote="phil d" data-source="post: 506141" data-attributes="member: 27126"><p>I remember Tony telling me he'd spoken to quite a few yanks on forums and they didn't like AFDD's either.</p><p></p><p>I think it's a sad indictment of the way our industry is going when too many people involved in making up our regs seem to have a vested interest in the equipment they are recommending, by that I mean manufacturers of the equipment.</p><p></p><p>I remember a few years back at one of the elecs events chatting with someone from one of the test equipment manufacturers, they were trying to sell me one of their latest MFT's, which was designed to comply with the latest regs, the big selling point was that it had, alongside the reading a red and a green light, if the reading was within the limits the green lit, if not the red lit, I also saw one from another maker that had a tick and a cross to indicate pass or fail.</p><p></p><p>After comparing these meters with my own I discovered that apart from these fancy and in my opinion unneccessary 'gadgets' there was no difference to my own, except of course that purchasing one in order to 'comply' with the latest regs would relieve me of a good chunk of hard earned cash.</p><p></p><p>Maybe it's my age, or maybe it's just me, but I've grown very suspicious of a lot of modern stuff, it's a bit like tools, these days there's a seperate tool for everything, the thing is when you're just starting out you can't afford them all so you learn to do several things with one tool, by the time you're older and in a position to afford all these fancy tools you start to ask yourself do you really need them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="phil d, post: 506141, member: 27126"] I remember Tony telling me he'd spoken to quite a few yanks on forums and they didn't like AFDD's either. I think it's a sad indictment of the way our industry is going when too many people involved in making up our regs seem to have a vested interest in the equipment they are recommending, by that I mean manufacturers of the equipment. I remember a few years back at one of the elecs events chatting with someone from one of the test equipment manufacturers, they were trying to sell me one of their latest MFT's, which was designed to comply with the latest regs, the big selling point was that it had, alongside the reading a red and a green light, if the reading was within the limits the green lit, if not the red lit, I also saw one from another maker that had a tick and a cross to indicate pass or fail. After comparing these meters with my own I discovered that apart from these fancy and in my opinion unneccessary 'gadgets' there was no difference to my own, except of course that purchasing one in order to 'comply' with the latest regs would relieve me of a good chunk of hard earned cash. Maybe it's my age, or maybe it's just me, but I've grown very suspicious of a lot of modern stuff, it's a bit like tools, these days there's a seperate tool for everything, the thing is when you're just starting out you can't afford them all so you learn to do several things with one tool, by the time you're older and in a position to afford all these fancy tools you start to ask yourself do you really need them. [/QUOTE]
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