Mostly just curious, but also thinking it might be a chance to see one fail early while the other manages to run most of the gauntlet, similar to what happened with the 87v tests. Been too long since I watched those now so I can't remember if there were actual differences in the board or not. Maybe not fair as one already is known to have a problem even if it is just firmware issue. Guess I was really just wanting to see the maximum number of meters fail (that are not mine) and I'm just being greedy.
The 87V that failed was quite old but I don't think that had anything to do with it. You may recall after running a brand new one and seeing how well it held up, I carefully ran the old one a second time going through each stage trying to sort out why it failed. In the end, I had no answer. I repeated the test on that same meter and it held up really well. It seems when I dug into it, even some stray contamination on the board didn't make a lot of sense.
In the case of the 87V, we had a hardware failure. Running a second new one did at least give me enough confidence to have a second look at the old one.
Now we apparently have a firmware problem and no hardware damage. I think we have looked at enough Brymen products to be fairly confident that they know how to design a switch that will last and a front end that can take a fair bit of abuse. I highly suspect we are looking at some fairly boring tests moving forward. Of course, I thought that when I started too.
I do have a few old Harbor Freight meters if you just want to see some hardware damage.