The ST42 arrived today:
Great to know you have revived ST42, and thanks a lot for your feedback
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We have discussed some solutions for your feedback.
Let's talk about the Cons and suggestions only.
- with some low value inductors it show the resistance, instead of inductance. Solution: maybe it needs just a little change in the FW
Do you remember the value of the inductor? we can try to repeat this issue.
For a while, we were plagued by the problem that 0ohm resistors were easily judged as inductances, so we realized that near the limit.
Small inductance and small resistance are very similar in physical properties.
Therefore, for very small inductances, it is recommended to use the manual mode for measurement.
We are still trying to figure out whether we can further improve the discrimination accuracy.
if one day, we could use a 100kHz excitation signal, that could make big progress.
- the springiness of the two arms is too high and require a rather hefty force to bend them. This is rather annoying! Solution: no idea.
The solution could be to use thinner or low springiness material as the arms of tweezers.
if we receive more feedback for the springiness as you mentioned, we will upgrade it.
- several times I press on the joystick, I get a beep, but no changes in the menus. Solution: do not beep if the key is not accepted; eg: when in scroll mode, accept only Up/Down keys
The logic of this case is that we want to remind the user that you did press the button, but the function is empty. . .
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We're trying to improve this, maybe it's a good idea to use left and right in menus for exiting and entering menus, as elsewhere.
- menu scroll: if the end is reached, it should restart to first menu item if Down is pressed.
One tip is when you choose to long-press the joykey in the middle, you can exit the menu of this layer, without operating to the bottom, and choose to exit.
For the cycle menu function, we will implement an instead function, long press "down" joykey, the menu will scroll to the end automatically.
SUGGESTIONS:
- Implement a menu item which try to test any kind of components: L/R/C/Diode/LED altogether. Even if the readings will be SLOWER, it will be better than roaming through the menus to change the test type.
This function is in our TODO list for a long time, we need some time to implement and validate it.
- Offer in your shop (as a replacement part) the tips of the tweezers
No problem, we will add it to the shop.
You are not the only one to give this suggestion.