Had some more time to play now, and it's all good... mostly
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Auto-ranging on the 2W resistance range does take a few steps to go from open circuit to correctly reading shorted probes, especially if they don't make really good contact straight away, and the meter tries some intermediate ranges before settling on the 100 Ohm range. It's OK if the aperture is set to 1 PLC, but on 10 PLC (the next available step up), it takes a while.
I spent a while yesterday looking for the red grabber, which I was sure should have been included in the test lead kit. I was going to give Keysight a call today to say it was missing, but having looked at the included accessories on their web site, it turns out you only get a black one (WTF?!)
So hooking the meter up to, say, log current for a period of time unattended is impossible unless you have a substantial enough clip already. And guess who wanted to leave it logging the charging process of a 12V lead-acid battery overnight
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(Seriously Keysight, that's just being cheap, even for you!)
On the plus side, setting it up to log to USB was dead easy and worked first time. I'm at a bit of a loss as to why anyone would pay for the MEM upgrade, when the 50,000 point limit of the standard meter doesn't apply if you're logging to a file on a USB stick. I checked this morning; 70,000 points taken at 3msec intervals, no problem at all.
Has anyone else noticed the noise from the fan? It's quiet, but quite high pitched and... whiney. Maybe it's inevitable, what with the fan being so small, but it's irritating nonetheless. Fortunately the radio drowns it out easily.
The probe tips needed a good clean in order to give consistent resistance readings; a good wipe with a paper towel soaked in Flux-off rosin flux remover worked wonders. They still feel a bit low rent compared to the TL175 set that came with my Fluke 289, though, and really hoped for better with a £900 multimeter. Some Kelvin clips for the 4W resistance range would have been nice too; you don't get anything at all to perform 4W measurements.
Amazingly, you do get a USB cable, but no Ethernet cable, and no printed manual. I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
Overall impression? From a usability point, a bloody good meter, as expected. I've no way to check its accuracy, though I've no reason to doubt it's anything other than superb. It's a shame that the accessories aren't more plentiful, but that's much easier to fix than any deficiency in the meter itself.
Also nice to see is that my Agilent 6632B set to 5V outputs +5.00008V, and in CC mode @ 1A, I get 0.99968A. Good enough for a general purpose bench supply
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