On the newer 97, they dropped that keypad and integrated it into the PCB. Wonder why Philips didn't do this from the start.
All back together now. Here both 97s running with a loopback cable. Hard to believe I scrubbed these in the sink.
Does the 96 have FFT? What about AC+DC? What about Power measurements? Math in the 97 is very limited.
Your cable does seem a lot shorter then mine. As for math, yes it has AC+DC, I have not seen FFT as an option yet, I think I've gone over the whole menu so I don't think it has it. Also it was marketed to the auto industry and they don't have much need for the FFT feature.
The manual has instructions for add, subtract, multiply, invert, intergrate, and filter, but in this section the manual has the 92B and 96B crossed off. I guess becuase the manual is for the 99B and 105B also.
I know the 99B and 105B does 5GS/s andnhas extra memory for recording and saving wave forms also.
As for power I can measure the current with a clamp as expected, see it as numerical or a wave form. But if I want to measure power with math function ii need the 99B or 105B again, not the 96B.
I wonder if I change out the memory flash chips, if I could flash the new firmware to include the math function. It would probably be easier to buy a broken 99 or 105 and change the flash chips. Their is only two of them from Intel. It would give me the software feature in the firmware, but not sure if it's running any other parts that might be different also. I guess the one problem with buying a broken unit is if someone hooked up the 12V programming voltage backwards then it would have fried that flash chip. Somit would be a gamble.
I'm thinking about buying some C cell rechargeables also, I think the one Ali-Ion charger I have already charges NiMh and Ni-cad but need to confirm this.
If it does then maybe I'll just break down the pack it came with.