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From: budgie on 10 Apr 2006 20:57 On 11 Apr 2006 00:05:39 GMT, Jim Yanik <jyanik(a)abuse.gov> wrote: (snip) >At least the Telequipment scopes(British)retained the Telequipment badge. TEK had enough sense to keep those things at arm's length ;-) Peter (D32 owner)
From: Keith on 10 Apr 2006 21:50 On Sun, 09 Apr 2006 21:47:49 -0700, Smitty Two wrote: > In article <hv2dncqN-fTOEaTZnZ2dnUVZ_s6dnZ2d(a)wightman.ca>, > "Spokesman" <his(a)spam.net> wrote: > >> >> >> I am not familier with the Fluke version of the Omega HHM290. >> Could you point out the correct model number to me so I can >> buy the Fluke version next time. > > I don't know whether Fluke makes that particular model. The point is, > Omega is a distributor. I have nothing against distributors, unless they > stick their Omega label on top of the real manufacturer's label, and > then pretend they're the manufacturer. Sheesh. How is that different than a Mazda pickup truck or IBM Personal Computer, or any number of a thousand different every day items? Sheesh, indeed! -- Keith
From: Smitty Two on 10 Apr 2006 23:24 In article <pan.2006.04.11.01.50.23.215901(a)att.bizzzz>, Keith <krw(a)att.bizzzz> wrote: > On Sun, 09 Apr 2006 21:47:49 -0700, Smitty Two wrote: > > > In article <hv2dncqN-fTOEaTZnZ2dnUVZ_s6dnZ2d(a)wightman.ca>, > > "Spokesman" <his(a)spam.net> wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> I am not familier with the Fluke version of the Omega HHM290. > >> Could you point out the correct model number to me so I can > >> buy the Fluke version next time. > > > > I don't know whether Fluke makes that particular model. The point is, > > Omega is a distributor. I have nothing against distributors, unless they > > stick their Omega label on top of the real manufacturer's label, and > > then pretend they're the manufacturer. Sheesh. > > How is that different than a Mazda pickup truck or IBM Personal > Computer, or any number of a thousand different every day items? Sheesh, > indeed! I don't know, Keith, how is it different? I don't buy IBMs or any other brand of PC, nor Mazdas. I know who made my Mac, and my Toyota. Everything is assembled from parts, it's true. But if you peel the Mazda sticker off your Mazda, is there a Chevrolet sticker under it? We used to manufacture a surgical monitoring instrument for a well-known international corporation. In order to distribute the instrument in Europe, the thing had to be manufactured in Europe. We stuck the appropriate label on the units bound for Europe, attesting to that. When they got there, people there installed the 9 volt battery. Voila. Made in Europe. I think things ought to be accurately labeled, and that not doing so constitutes fraud. That's my opinion, of course, and you're welcome to share it or hold some opposing belief.
From: Jim Yanik on 10 Apr 2006 23:21 budgie <me(a)privacy.net> wrote in news:rlvl32hvuaf51n790j93k1igrf4qdsiau7(a)4ax.com: > On 11 Apr 2006 00:05:39 GMT, Jim Yanik <jyanik(a)abuse.gov> wrote: > > (snip) > >>At least the Telequipment scopes(British)retained the Telequipment badge. > > TEK had enough sense to keep those things at arm's length ;-) > > Peter > (D32 owner) > Not really,they were sold out of TEK catalogs,and they came into TEK US service centers;that's how I got my experience with them(yecch). Worse,they didn't learn from that mistake,and now sell even more equipment from other companies,with less-than-TEK (the OLD Tek)service levels.Some items had to be shipped back to Britain just to be calibrated.Parts availability for local repairs was often terrible. Now you can't even get a component-level schematic for your TEK TDS scope;they don't want you trying to fix them yourself,even "obsolete" ones they no longer service. -- Jim Yanik jyanik at kua.net
From: budgie on 11 Apr 2006 01:45
On 11 Apr 2006 03:21:58 GMT, Jim Yanik <jyanik(a)abuse.gov> wrote: >budgie <me(a)privacy.net> wrote in >news:rlvl32hvuaf51n790j93k1igrf4qdsiau7(a)4ax.com: > >> On 11 Apr 2006 00:05:39 GMT, Jim Yanik <jyanik(a)abuse.gov> wrote: >> >> (snip) >> >>>At least the Telequipment scopes(British)retained the Telequipment badge. >> >> TEK had enough sense to keep those things at arm's length ;-) >> >> Peter >> (D32 owner) >> > >Not really,they were sold out of TEK catalogs,and they came into TEK US >service centers;that's how I got my experience with them(yecch). You're not wrong. They'd have to partly explain the total demise of UK electronic manufacturing. Telequipment are to CRO's what Lucas are to auto electrics (hint: google Lucas and "prince of darkness"). The D32 has those abominable through-board rivets which present as a continual source of new dry joints. MTBF is probably single digit hours. >Worse,they didn't learn from that mistake,and now sell even more equipment >from other companies,with less-than-TEK (the OLD Tek)service levels.Some >items had to be shipped back to Britain just to be calibrated.Parts >availability for local repairs was often terrible. > >Now you can't even get a component-level schematic for your TEK TDS >scope;they don't want you trying to fix them yourself,even "obsolete" ones >they no longer service. At least I have the full service manual for the D32. |