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Measurement Test Equipment



Buying quality tools always pays off in the long run. I've had my Fluke 87 True-RMS digital multimeter since 1994. It's seen sixteen years of hard use, has survived more than the occasional drop including from the second floor onto concrete.All this and and yet is still in like-new condition.
Measurement Test EquipmentThe only thing I would improve on is the non-rechargeable 9V battery which has to be changed with relative frequency. This is a little cumbersome because screws have to be removed in order to take the water-tight enclosure apart. I'm sure improvements such as a rechargeable lithium battery solution have been incorporated into the newer revisions of this time-tested gem.

Whenever I buy measurement test equipment or any type of portable test equipment one of the benefits I look for is a storage and carry case solution. I purchase a $200 probe and adapter kit with a folding case but I never did find a suitable case for the 87 from fluke so I purchased my own after market solution. Another add on I originally purchased was a nice silicon conformal sleeve. It's a sort of bump case that serves to not only protect the unit from damage, but also works as a flexible stand that also adapts in order to hook the unit over a door or other suitable support. Hands-free operation is a nice feature when working in the field.

Here is a list of some of my favorite manufactures of Measurement Test Equipment:


Yougme Moon, Harvard Business School professor, brings a fresh examination of marketing with a difference. From Google to Swatch, she argues that the temptation competitors face to “keep up with the Jones’” has served only to minimize the value propositions between brand ‘A’ and ‘B’.  She coins the phrase, “heterogeneous homogeneity”, to explain how herd mentality has driven products to be different in meaningless ways.

With detectable humility, Youngme cautions throughout that her book is not a ‘how-to’ manual, but rather a discussion of how some brands have managed to break away from the herd by taking an oftentimes counterintuitive stance towards conventional marketing wisdoms.

Youngme underscores how marketing tactics driven to add value in the absence of a high level differentiation strategy, is essentially the definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. To be effective, we mustn't forget that consumption is strongly driven by illogical human emotion. In order to appeal to the senses products sometimes have to play hard to get…


She struck familiar chords; I myself have often lamented, "do we really need 300 different types of cereal?”... Too much meaningless choice at best serves only to frustrate the increasingly cynical consumer. At worse, too much choice can lead end users to failure -"Let’s simplify the user experience." I've often thought.


Different will turn your value proposition on its head. 

I've been working on a cool project recently that uses an iPhone as the user interface for a wireless blower door system. We've branded the back end technology under the name, Patriot Virtual Instruments. Videos follow.


Two exceptionally creative brothers caught more than a glimpse of limelight during the John Kerry/George Bush election showdown. With the release of "This Land", an animated political parody, the brothers' unique "JibJab" brand humor was born. This Land's audience is truly astronomical; with viewers across every continent on Earth to the International Space Station.

I'd lost touch with their progress until recently, only to find the boys continuing to impress at the JibJab humor mill. This time churning out belly-rolling laughs with yet another branded knee-slapper, "JibJab Sendables."

Promising to rid the world of "eCards that Suck", Sendables | Non-Crappy eCards, breathe life into the ordinary by allowing you to insert your own head shots to create ridiculously funny bobble-headed animations featuring you, and/or your victims. I think they must have gotten the inspiration from those Bruce Lee commercials; wasn't that Snapple...



Sendable eCards are themed for any occasion; Disco, Snoop Dog, Square Dancing and even a Striptease. JibJab's seemingly endless creativity delivers something for everyone.

Before you click send on that eCard, Just say NO! to eCards that suck.


This is an unpaid endorsement just because.
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