28 Jun
2004
28 Jun
'04
9:36 a.m.
At 09:41 PM 6/28/04 +0100, you wrote:
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
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"Joe R." <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com> wrote:
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!
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. 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.