Any news on the US meters?
Yes, sorry but the US meters will be delayed, they want to make some small tolerance changes to the range switch. We'd rather have them delayed a bit than to have any more potential range switch issues.
Ok, so your saying the meters are now in the US, and UEI is taking them to fix the range switches. Will UEI be shipping them, or will they get shipped again to the reshipper in the US and then make it to the customers. Or did you can the reshipper and UEI will be shipping the US meter now?
I have an idea, it’s not uncommon to have 2 different firmwares for different hardware releases.
As a “Thank you for being patient” can the US customers request maybe UEI can update the auto range speed on the US meters and mark them hardware version 1.1. Since it will be at the manufacturer I’m sure they can calibrate for the faster update ranging. Going forward for new batches can also all be marked as HW1.1 with the faster range update.
It will only make it a better product with future sales of the meters. And I’m sure someone will review it with the faster update range showing the meter with all the bugs fixed as well. And this way you get some of the faster update meters in people’s hands to work out any bug that might inadvertently happen from the faster update range improvements for hands on testing.
And for those that have the ability to calibrate the meter they can also load hardware version 1.1 firmware and do the calibration themselves.
If an open source firmware does happen, then who ever is working on the firmware will need to be aware of the different hardware versions. This is a common thing when hardware changes happen anyway.