Maybe you could answer why would a viewer call Brymen owner's "pussies" then withdraw it? Maybe you too are looking for a little respect for your expert opinions?
The only thing I can say is that YOU are Destroying your review with So MUCH BIAS against Keysight and in Favour of Brymen, in fact, Brymen sends free DMMs to you!
I would suggest you try to be less passionate and more impartial, I know that many tricks can be done to make up for a result, remember the "Volkswagen emissions scandal" (aka "Dieselgate", "Emissionsgate")?
I'm not saying this is a "Brymengate", but all your comments expose a hating against Keysight since the beginning, this gives a strong discredit to your review.
BTW: the Keysight U1282A specs says: "-20°C to +55°C", not -40C; and Brymen 869s datasheet says "0°C to 45°C", so I guess they never tested that, just put a conservative value, OR, there is something else...
All I am doing is presenting data. You may not like it and feel your only option is to resort to name calling. While childish, it's fairly common. I've said how my transient generators are not intelligent and don't care what is connected to them. There is no bias. The same for my other tests.
Early on in this thread I made my hatred of Fluke clear and provided background on why. People would still accuse me of being a fanboy of Fluke.
If it had not been for Fungus suggesting I look at the 101, I would have never owned another Fluke. During the testing, they have earned my respect as they continue to prove themselves. I will gladly eat crow. Go back and read the posts when I was looking at that Gossen Ultra. Talk about a witch hunt (I think was what one member was calling it.).
CEM data sheets show 100MHz for their counter, not 150MHz. I guess they never tested it. Keysight U1282A datasheet also shows 100MHz and they can't achieve half that. I guess they also never tested it!
That's fine. As I said, I push these meters. If you like unboxing, 5 star reviews, to feel good about your purchases, look elsewhere.
Indeed, it's well documented that after buying my BM869s and explaining to Brymen the tests I was running, they became very interested in knowing the outcome. They offered to repair or replace the meter if I were to damage it during the transient tests. In the end, I repaired it. I also bought Dave's rebranded Brymen. That meter has yet to be damaged. I then asked Brymen some questions about their automotive meter and because they are hard to get here in the USA, they offered to send one. At the same time, I mentioned the testing I was doing on the switches and how I was thinking about running the BM869s. They provided details about their in-house testing along with some video clips (which I included in my videos). They offered to provide a second BM869s specifically to run that test. Which I did. Then Dave posted about selling a new Brymen meter. Hearing that, I contacted them about testing it the prototype. This led to testing the 789 prototype as well.
While Brymen has proven to have an interest in seeing how their products stack up, I don't see that with other brands. While UNI-T and anther large company contacted me about making reviews, once I explain what I am doing, they decline. Again, this is nothing new and all documented. While I would have some concern about getting products through these channels, if Gossen for example approached me about their improvements to the Ultra (now Prime), I would gladly repeat the tests. I would do the same if UNI-T wanted to repeat the tests on an improved UT181A. Both of those products would be worth investing the time into. Keysight, like any other brand will earn it's place based on how they perform.
"Volkswagen emissions scandal" We had an youngster at work who wanted to lecture me about this case. I gave them a history lesson so they wouldn't be so ignorant the next time they approached the topic.