I'll chime in backing up Joe. If the auction said it included pods, and it
didn't, press for a full refund, it's worthless without the pods and the
pods are the highest cost item. Joe is correct - logic analyzer without pods
is worth $50, just but pods and grabbers are worth $200. No kidding.
Jay West
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe R." <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 4:36 PM
Subject: Re: HP analyzer probes
At 09:41 PM 6/28/04 +0100, you wrote:
>
>In message <3.0.6.32.20040628154139.008fdb10(a)pop-server.cfl.rr.com>
> "Joe R." <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> RUN, don't walk, back to that seller and DEMAND your money back! A
set
>> of probes will cost more than a complete LA
is worth. He's trying to
screw
>> you big time!
>Well, he's offered a $50 partial refund (I paid $272.71 for the
analyser -
>$207.50 plus $57.60 shipping and $7.61 insurance).
The problem is,
shipping
>it back to him in France is going to cost roughly
another $100 and I'll
only
>get the $207.50 back. So $207.50 minus $100 is
$107.50, add on the
shipping
and insurance
leaves me $172.71 out of pocket for basically nothing.
BS! He's the one that shipped it without the pods. You're entitled to
all of your money back! If he wants it back, then he should pay for the
return shipping. Furthermore the missing pods, leads and grabbers are
worth
considerably more than $50! In fact, he has it
backwards. The LA without
the accessories MIGHT be worth $50. The accessories are worth $200!
>
>> Go look on E-bay at what the grabbers alone are bringing! If you
start
>> trying to buy this piece by piece it will
cost double what a complete
LA
>> can be had for.
>Murphy's Law in action. I've got the analyser, I've got a National
>Instruments TNT+ GPIB card, I've got the GPIB cables and I've got one
>pod-to-analyser cable. I have no pods and I need at least one more
>pod-to-analyser cable. Yay.
>Ordinarily I'd just use a 40-way IDC cable, but the cable seems to have
been
>woven to reduce interference and noise absorption.
That and all the
signal
>lines are 180 Ohms measured from cable-end to
cable-end while the ground
and
power lines are
less than one ohm.
I'm sure they're special cables. If they didn't need to be then HP
would
have used IDC cables. I have NEVER seen a LA that used
IDC cables and I
have a LOT of them. (Gould, Dolch, HP, Tektronix, Paratronics, etc, etc)
Joe