Element14 - win a 34461A DMM - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: mikeselectricstuff
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 14, 2013, 08:15:35 am
content: From Twitter :5 Agilent 34461A Digital Multimeter's to give away in our latest RoadTest. Enroll for a chance to get one nowhttp://www.element14.com/community/roadTests/1194?CMP=SOM-ROADT-AGILENT-34461A-ENROLL-TW

author: lewis
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 19, 2013, 08:08:49 am
content: Quote from: mikeselectricstuff on September 14, 2013, 08:15:35 amGod I hate it when big companies get punctuation wrong.

author: Psi
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 19, 2013, 09:34:49 am
content: So it's not really a competition/give away, more a review/test and you get to keep it ?

author: Bored@Work
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 19, 2013, 10:26:49 am
content: Quote from: Psi on September 19, 2013, 09:34:49 amThe review/test thing is the big question. It depends on if/how element14 and Agilent tend to enforce their rules. I think there is a threat if you don't deliver a review within end of October they'll exclude you from further road tests. I have no idea if they do so. But judging from previous reviews, the quality requirements for reviews don't seem to be hight. At best they are boring reports of "I did this, than that". At worst it is "I received it, it is great, thank you and good by!".And it seems this time they also want at least three blog posts in addition to the review, strongly suggesting to do videos. That makes four pieces you need to produce, three with video.If you take the requirements serious than it is quite some work, at least for people with no experience in video blogging. In that case you really have to earn yourself the meter. If one (and element14) don't take the requirements serious one can of course get away with maybe two hours of work. If one is a leecher and doesn't care about exclusion from future road tests one might get away with zero hours.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 19, 2013, 10:32:51 am
content: Quote from: Psi on September 19, 2013, 09:34:49 amYes, that's how it works.Element 14 convince companies like Agilent that they have a massive community and if they give equipment away to their members (some of it very expensive) for "road tests" they'll get a bunch of quality "reviews" that will get countless views and massive product engagement that the PR department will drool over and be able to tick off their monthly social media KPI's.The truth of course is that that community is pretty awful (no offense to those who contribute of course, it's just the website), and their engagement and views are pretty low.If Agilent and others did the same thing here on this forum (arguably by far the leading T&M forum the net) they'd get 100 times the views and much better engagement.But Element 14 have much better clout.Here is the stuff available and previous reviews:http://www.element14.com/community/groups/roadtest

author: robrenz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 19, 2013, 01:10:21 pm
content: I signed up as a trend chart expertlets see if I get one

author: Fsck
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 19, 2013, 01:24:43 pm
content: I signed up too. The odds are probably against us.

author: Wytnucls
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 19, 2013, 01:31:52 pm
content: T4P on this site got a top of the range Agilent multimeter to review through Element 14. He had never done a decent review in his life before, so you stand a pretty good chance of getting one too! Now that I think about it, I never saw that Agilent review he was supposed to come up with...Well, there was this:https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/u1273ax-discussion/msg196642/#msg196642.Never saw anything else that looked remotely like a review, but I could be wrong.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 19, 2013, 01:56:30 pm
content: Quote from: Wytnucls on September 19, 2013, 01:31:52 pmAll the reviews for that are here:http://www.element14.com/community/roadTestReviews?roadtestid=1132

author: Wytnucls
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 19, 2013, 02:05:52 pm
content: Thanks Dave. I thought he would have been keen to post it here as well:http://www.element14.com/community/roadTestReviews/1436Lots of pictures...( always looks impressive)I don't know how they choose these people, but the reviews are pretty lame...

author: tom66
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 21, 2013, 12:39:46 am
content: I applied too. Worth a shot. I already have an accurate 0.005%DCV 6 1/2 digit meter I scored off eBay with a broken IEC filter, so it'd be nice to compare that (as it's well past calibration) with a new meter. Wonder how much difference 12 years out of cal makes.

author: Galaxyrise
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 21, 2013, 12:57:12 am
content: I was pretty shocked at the default privacy settings; make sure you check them if you just created a new account.

author: george graves
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 21, 2013, 01:29:20 am
content: Element14 must have the worst site registration process in the history of the interwebs. I'll choose how strong my password is, thank you very much. "F_YOU_AND_THE_HOSRE_YOUROAD_IN_ON_1234"

author: Fsck
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 21, 2013, 01:32:44 am
content: Quote from: Galaxyrise on September 21, 2013, 12:57:12 amoh wow, that's pretty bad. thanks for the warning

author: robrenz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 08, 2013, 08:18:24 pm
content: Quote from: robrenz on September 19, 2013, 01:10:21 pmObviously I am not expert enough

author: AndersAnd
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 03, 2013, 09:31:12 pm
content: Quote from: Rutger on October 08, 2013, 07:28:25 pmI use the disposable e-mail service10 Minute Mailfor sites where you have to use a validation e-mail, if I don't want to give away my real e-mail address:http://10minutemail.comVery quick and easy to use.Quote

author: robrenz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 04, 2013, 12:45:39 am
content: If you have any intentions of winning one of the road test reviews you better use a real email address since they need to contact you when you win. I took the Keithley 2450 SMU road test application much more seriously than this one and I won one of the 3 units given out on this road test. I can put up with a lot of spam since I got a $5400.00 SMU for free.

author: echen1024
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 05, 2013, 01:42:36 am
content: What was the format of your application?

author: robrenz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 05, 2013, 02:29:52 am
content: Just a very extensive description of what my review would cover.

author: echen1024
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 05, 2013, 02:31:47 am
content: Ahh. Thanks

author: ben1066
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: November 10, 2013, 12:10:40 pm
content: Hm, for future reference do they ship overseas?

author: robrenz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 10, 2013, 03:33:19 pm
content: AFIK it covers everywhere that Element14 sells products so that would be yes.