28 Jun
2004
28 Jun
'04
8:41 a.m.
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.
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.
Later.
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