Don't buy either the VC97 or the VC99, I have a VC97 and Joe has tested a VC99. put that money into that Brymen 867, honestly it way way better then you perceive it to be.
LOL... I was being facetious; neither of them have anything I want that my two Anengs and my Ragu don't already have. I was just pointing that out as a really pitiful high point of my search. I believe I've fixed my Sperry; the urge for a new meter isn't nearly as strong now. We'll see what develops.
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I'm sure most of us know about using Gurgle's " site: " search algorithm to find things on EEVblog; however I just found something I didn't know: You can actually dial in some pretty fine granularity; it is possible to search individual subforums here as well. Not only that; you do NOT have to enter a search query!
THIS:
site:www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/test-equipment-anonymous-(tea)-group-therapy-thread/
will return a listing of posts on our thread. If you then click on the [Images] radio button, you can scroll through all images uploaded to our thread, sorted similarly.
If you then add a search query, you can find images posted to our forum associated with that term, like so:
454 site:www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/test-equipment-anonymous-(tea)-group-therapy-thread/
I was able to find the pic (and the post) where I originally offered my free Tekittens to a good home within the first few dozen hits; I had tried repeatedly using the EEVblog site advanced search with no joy.
Yep, that's the only way to fly search the forum (and other sites). If you leave off the www subdomain, you can broaden a search to all subdomains of a second-level domain.
Yep, but the photos are random ones, there are many others that don't selected, or the ones that do, are they the ones hosted on other sites rather than direct posts?
No; they're only the ones hosted here. And they're not random; they're organized using whatever voodoo algorithm Gurgle feels is applicable, as repeated searches return the same results in the same order.
It's whatever has been indexed. I see examples of both attached images and externally hosted ones. If you don't enter a query string, then you'll see images in whatever order is the default. If you do put a word or three, then the top images will be those with the matching search terms on the page (not just the particular post in which the image appeared), image title, maybe the image filename.
Here's an example that pulls up the image attachments of URI's post about his Oltronix B300D units as the first two hits on the Images tab (or the row of images at the top of regular search results).
oltronix site:www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/test-equipment-anonymous-(tea)-group-therapy-thread/
Yeah, what he sed.
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The order in which said results are displayed is still at least 60% bitchcraft, IMHO.
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Cheap meters belong in the car ![Smiley :)](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/smiley.gif)
Yeah, well... I checked my cheap car DMM yesterday....
![](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/test-equipment-anonymous-(tea)-group-therapy-thread/?action=dlattach;attach=480788;image)
Still works fine ![ThumbsUp :-+](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/icon_smile_thumbsup.gif)
Nice! They made their front-panel stickers with left over heatshrink material. ![Laughing :-DD](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/smiley_laughing.gif)
I had one in red did the same thing. Used the mainboard to fix another that got smoked "accidentally on purpose" doing something stupid; on purpose because I knew I was going to do something stupid, so I used the cheapie as a sacrificial element to prevent killing a half-decent meter.
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Then once it was working I gave it away, as I usually do.
Yeh well there's cheap and then there's cheap cheap
And then there's "chirpy chirpy cheap cheap".
Those of a certain age who understand that reference, will groan. For those who don't understand, simply be glad I'm not explaining ![Smiley :)](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/smiley.gif)
Whats wrong with it? Its pretty neutral really, yu could say "Middle of the Road" TaDaa TaDaa
*Does quick Gurgle and finds a video*
Fuuuuuu.... there's 90 seconds of my life I'll never get back.
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mnem
*Tosses soggy ol' boot at Specmaster's head, just on GP*