It's a bit hard to chew on the cost i know
I shall talk about what i feel after going about with the DMM for about a week
But there are indeed some teething problems.
This is a 450$ multimeter right? WHY IN THE NAME OF GOD AGILENT DIDN'T YOU PUT BETTER PLASTIC SCREENS?!
Well guess what guys, i was cleaning it with my microfiber cloth and i saw scratches
And the continuity (Frankly one of my most criticized and mocked-at for my multimeters) ... it's a semi-fail
Sure it's
fast and
LATCHED but it latches up a bit too long in my taste
I don't know if this is a norm or not but IMO a semi-fail but i'm not sure if this applies to the U127X series or not but continuity has 3 modes (OFF, TONE, SINGLE). Here's what i finally find VERY redeeming about the continuity
Instead of getting a scratchy beep of inconsistent connections you get a array of tones so you can pretty much make a musical with the DMM
Jokes aside it's really useful to see if you have a inconsistently broken cable (Broken strands and Closed strands)
Autoranging, well yeah fast. Not nearly as fast my UT61E though
Can say it's MUCH faster than a VC8145 but still plenty fast
Though the display rate on resistance is beyond epilepsy-inducing quick! It made me blind ... literally of course
Even though the low-impedance range is set below the "OFF" position but it requires a larger amount of force to push the OFF position down into low impedance. To me it's a good thing
And there was a minor fail during shipping
Agilent sent Energizer Ultimate Lithium batteries (The expensive kind, awesome) and element14 pasted the wrong label and therefore UPS wasn't so much near happy if at all and sent it back straight to them!
Sorry element14 but i've gotta admit
I've got a bad feeling with the U1273AX though, it uses lithium batteries, good. And has a setting for secondary lithium batteries but, what's worrying is 50hr battery life
Sure, 50 hours but seriously only 50 on lithium? I don't want to think how much i would get on Li-Ion. And the alkaline is spec'd at 30
So basically 30mA draw
and indeed. 6V @ 180mVA is indeed 30mA
I can't really see what's ahead for OLEDs apart from the fact that they look really brilliant at night and in the sunlight even although AUTO brightness ain't seem to be working for me
Oh and i forgot something! The entire U127X series apparently has a changeable beep frequency! There's only 4 steps but it's rather wide from OFF to 3200Hz, 3491Hz, 3840Hz and 4267Hz