Still I can´t believe they´re so cheap to buy - Even when this clamp would costs three times more, the value for money would still be great.
Wow, just wow.
I wonder what the differences between the 800khz and 2Mhz versions are...and where.
Edit:
Not sure if I'll bother to carry the CP2100A model?
Why not, it got the same incredible quality and with appx 200 buck it would be more affordable.
Looking for other brands, you won´t find 800khz bw under 1000 bucks and more.
So get that A model and take some pictures
Really though i'd 99% bet on it being just some chippies OR.. more than likely it is this.. they are binning them. Why? Dave already said it himself.. they couldnt keep up with producing 2.5MHz rated versions... almost certainly means they were rebranding them as the lessor A model via binning. So you are really just paying for better quality parts
Also of interest there is a little known X version that was suppose to be rated for only up to 300 kHz
I doubt they are binning them, this is a pretty commodity thing.
The only non-jellybean part in there is the TMR sensor, and those are a relatively mature part ( I ordered some samples off amazon for a few dollars a few months ago). If there was variance on the TMR sensor it would be pretty simple to bin them before assembly.
This device is a good deal for what is on the market right now, but the production costs are pretty low. I would not be surprised if the most expensive parts of the whole thing was the nice plastic case and the custom mechanical components. The big change is this is the first design on the market using a higher bandwidth magnetic sensor as opposed to a low bandwidth hall effect sensor used on the cheap probes, or the hybrid hall effect + current transformer used on the super expensive current probes.