VC88E Multimeter pictures on ebay - spot how many things are wrong in this photo - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: retiredcaps
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 13, 2012, 05:18:35 am
content: I was doing some Fluke 88 pricing research on ebay and the search engine returned thishttp://www.ebay.com/itm/190722038088So I started looking at the photos which are now obviously photoshopped otherwise why on earth would you buy this multimeter? The 3rd picture has so many errors in it, it is not even funny.Save your hard earned $27.50 USD and stay away.

author: tom66
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 13, 2012, 05:57:20 am
content: Hah! Brilliant!Cool LCD though, never seen an apparently 3D one on a multimeter. But, will it be possible to watch blu-rays on it or only movies from USB?

author: samgab
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 13, 2012, 06:33:44 am
content: Ummm, set to "off" and the display is on... Not using the com socket for the black test lead... what else, other than it just being a steaming pile of cow dung?

author: LEECH666
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 14, 2012, 04:16:18 pm
content: Ohms displayed on LCD, while DMM is switched to V~ mode and probes are connected to the current measurement sockets.YUP!

author: free_electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 14, 2012, 06:51:50 pm
content: ohms on volts ac with both probes in the ampere sockets ...better put on asbestos underwear before you try to measure the impedance of the wall socket ...

author: rollatorwieltje
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 14, 2012, 08:47:45 pm
content: Quite poorly photoshopped, I actually have that meter (except branded differently) and I can confirm it does not show ohms on ac volts modeIt uses a very common FS9922 DMM chip, so it behaves basically like every other meter in that price range. Annoyingly slow autorange, bar graph is a joke etc.The biggest issue is probably the supplied leads. Those pieces of junk are outright dangerous. Within a year of very light use the insulation just went brittle and actually broke at the probe, exposing the copper core.The leads that came with dirt cheap Mastech m830b are more durable ( I still use them, the meter itself died after being zapped by roughly 2kV from an "improved" electric fly swatter).

author: LEECH666
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 14, 2012, 09:11:23 pm
content: Probably better to save up and get a UNI-T UT61-E from Deal Extreme for around 50 bucks ....

author: T4P
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 14, 2012, 10:46:42 pm
content: Quote from: rollatorwieltje on September 14, 2012, 08:47:45 pmWhat a load crap vichy/victor produces on the low-end. Well that doesn't mean the higher end isn't crap either ... At least the VC8145 ( the 80000 count version at least ) is worth the money

author: ErikTheNorwegian
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2012, 10:08:11 am
content: Well, marked dep. has screwed up good or OK products for decades, part of their Jobs.For priced asked, the meter is OK, but not in "our leage of instruments" maybe.Just remind you of my POST card , another screwup by marked dep. And what they wrote about that, on the box. .But the card itself is flawless and have served my workshop well so far, and earned itself back many times. Paid 2.99 US$

author: samgab
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2012, 11:05:21 am
content: Wow... Just.... wow."Smooth hand injury"??I wonder what they were trying to convey with that line?

author: amyk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2012, 11:30:41 am
content: I think it's supposed to say "smooth to avoid hand injury"."Paste special components,is not reliable thorn in hand" -> "Uses SMD parts to stop hand pricking"Notice the logo at the bottom right...You get used to this stuff if you read lots of it.(Themanuals forthese things, which talk about "omnipotent password", "Exit Batter", etc. are equally amusing.)

author: T4P
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2012, 01:20:05 pm
content: When you take not so well written or even well written chinese into google translate in the early years this is what you get

author: ErikTheNorwegian
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2012, 10:21:34 pm
content: Here are some marketing screw-ups.. those people are not hierd for brains just for creativety.. and creative they are, just look:From MSN.com:If the Internet didn't exist, Kids Exchange would be just another American charity. But the North Carolina-based thrift store, which repurposes used children's clothing, has long been ridiculed on the web for its storefront sign, which doesn't exactly read like it should. "Here is another reason why having the right fonts and arrangements is important," reads GeckoandFly.com, one of the hundreds of websites today that runs the Kids Exchange photo with a snarky caption.No coment needed here..Pepsi and Coke: lost in translation:It's always dangerous, without due diligence, to take a popular North American slogan and project it to other parts of the world. Exhibit A: Pepsi, the famous soft drink maker, used its "Come alive with the Pepsi Generation" tag line in China, where in some translations it read, "Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the grave." Not be outdone, Coca-Cola found some of its Chinese vendors had used incorrect characters to form a literal translation of the soft drink maker's name, with many signs reading "Bite the wax tadpole" in the local tongue.Right idea, right execution?Electrolux made headlines back in the '90s with its British ads proclaiming "Nothing sucks like an Electrolux."Burger King blows us awayCritics were quick to jump all over Burger King for this suggestive 2009 ad for the BK Super Seven Incher, a limited time promotion in Singapore. The pictorial, which features a phallic-like sandwich near the lips of a mouth-open, lipstick-wearing model, was a little too forward for many eyes. One New York adman told "Fox News" he'd "seen a lot of sexual innuendo ads and this was about the worst, especially for a company as mainstream as Burger King."If the "It'll blow your mind away" tagline wasn't enough, the BK ad also read: "Fill your desire for something long, juicy and flame-grilled."and..When Parker Pen marketed a ball-point pen in Mexico, its ads weresupposed to have read, “it won’t leak in your pocket and embarrassyou”. Instead, the company thought that the word “embarazar” (to impregnate) meant to embarrass, so the ad read: “It won’t leak in your pocket and make you pregnant.”The Coca-Cola name in China was first read as “Ke-kou-ke-la”,meaning “Bite the wax tadpole” or “female horse stuffed with wax”, depending on the dialect. Coke then researched 40,000 characters to find a phonetic equivalent “ko-kou-ko-le”, translating into “happiness in the mouth.”Frank Perdue’s chicken slogan, “it takes a strong man to make atender chicken” was translated into Spanish as “it takes an aroused man to make a chicken affectionate.”Colgate introduced a toothpaste in France called “Cue”, the name of a notorious porno magazine.When Gerber started selling baby food in Africa, they used the samepackaging as in the U.S., with the beautiful Caucasian baby on thelabel. Later they learned that in Africa, companies routinely put pictures on the label of what’s inside, since most people can’t read.Clairol introduced the “Mist Stick”, a curling iron, into Germanonly to find out that “mist” is slang for manure. Not too many people had use for the “shit stick.”

author: steve30
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 16, 2012, 04:24:12 am
content: Chinglish is always fun to read.This was the best I could find: