Probulators arrived courtesy Farnell. Expensive but worth it...
Got 2 sets of Pomona minigrabber leads and a full Keysight 34138A pack:
The keysight probes aren't cheap but they have all the nice attachments with them:
From left to right: 2x fine tipped pokers with insulation all the way down, 2x SMD grabbers, 1x normal grabber (for usual ground clip), 2x normal sheathed non retractable probes.
Fun fun fun. 34401A out for delivery too
Have you any opinions on how those sheathed fine tips compare to the 34133A and its micro pogo pins?
Many times I've had them in my basket to pad out an order... but put them back because I found something else I needed more at the time, and honestly ~$45 for one set of probes... owwchies.
I mean, when I made all of these loverly 12 & 13ga sillycone jumpers for ~$40 delivered...
...that was much more viscerally satisfying.
mn3m
My father has these 34133A. The points are sharp as hell (which is why I got them as a gift in the first place) but the lead handles are freaking tiny. Like almost half the size you'd expect from a "normal" test lead... So I'd imagine not a good fit for dwagon-paws
I'm kindof torn... while I like the
idea of pogo pins on a test probe, and I love the idea of razor-sharp hard-point probes like the
Oldaker leads I use on my 3478A, I'm with bd139 on the point of them shorting out against other stuff, so would want them insulated like the long-thin tips in the 34138A pack. As soon as you put some heat-shrink on there to make them insulated, it kindof instantly takes away the
"super-thin pointy stick" advantage...
As for the probes being tiny... maybe if I were using them on dangerous voltages, yeah... but I routinely use (well, I would if I could find them right now) home-made fine-fine probes which are literally sewing needles soldered to a 4mm bullet
and shrink-wrap over that, which I then plug into my heavy patch cords or one of my modular test leads... so yeah, the 34133A leads would def be a step up in that dept.
mnem