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[@EEVblog]

No. I suspect it has real problems with the bright screen at certain apertures.

[@dcheverie]

In case anyone cares, the CNC Design website now is also in English. :D

[@Killler070411]

Dave, you gave yourself away before even opening the Agilent box! It says "PFANG and Probe" on it! HD Video gets you every time.

[@CampKohler]

The scariest thing about a $20K box like that is that all it takes is a single transistor in some custom chip to fail and turn the box into junk. Someday they won't support it any more and you could have an expensive door stop. It makes more sense to build gadgets that can be driven by PCs, all of which can be inexpensively replaced as time goes by. Why don't you go that way, Dave, with a PC-driven power supply--no knobs, no displays? And it can vary output according to a plan and log it all.

[@TheCrazyInventor]

I love the stuff CNC-design sent you. I'm a real sucker for stuff like nametags and things. Stick it on your lab door and take a picture of it! :)

[@BulletMagnet83]

Haha the prawn-probe :D All it needs is two little grounding clip "claws" and the look is complete.

[@rougenaxela]

Y'know... before the EEVBlog mailbag, I was unaware the postal service accepted packages with no return address

[@doomprophet]

Your mail bag song should be the one that Mister Rogers used for his mail time. (American kids show)

[@ivanv754]

Dave, why don't you take the LANC switch appart and try to reverse engineer that as well? You may find an easy to program microcontroller like a PIC10F in there, who knows.

[@p1oooop]

High-priced electronics: YOU SIMPLY HAVE TO SMELL THEM!

[@gamccoy]

Wow, it's Christmas day at the EEVBLOG headquarters!!!

[@EEVblog]

Yeah, real bargain huh? :->

[@CampKohler]

A "flathead" screwdriver? Not you, too, Dave. There is no such thing. A flathead screw is one whose top surface is flat and designed to finish up flush with the surface of the equipment it is used on. The driving method may be Phillips, hex, spline, Torx, Scrulox and many others. You are thinking of a screw that has a straight slot in it for use with a slotted screwdriver.

[@PeterWorkman]

I really need to brush up on Maxwell's equations describing the electro-metallicstickonthing fields.

[@toxanbi]

So they send PFANG to you just for teardown, but not for permanent use?

[@jaapweel1]

Actually, Americans use both "prawn" and "shrimp," but usually they'll call the smaller kind "shrimp" and the larger kind "prawn."

[@EEVblog]

It's just on loan to play around with.

[@aptsys]

Perhaps worth trying one of the other focus modes? Instant AF? It's painful on the eyes to watch sometimes :-(

[@CampKohler]

With 12 digits, that gets down to a micro Hz, right? Is that even possible without some kind of atomic clock?

[@p07gbar]

I swear that knife gets more advertising than the mail bag items...

[@illustriouschin]

Will you have to send that Agilent stuff back?

[@Monkeh616]

I suspect it'd be an end mill, Dave, not a drill.. :)

[@Nermash]

I see an active probe tutorial coming on:)

[@jerzmacow]

You need a mail bag song.

[@cleverca22]

thats a ton of decimal places on the generator!

[@demoniack81]

It probably has a rubidium reference clock inside.

[@AishaDracoGryph]

I never understood how something as simple as a probe can be over $1,000 it always hints to me of something along the lines of those $5,000 audio cables or HDMI cables that do literally nothing.

[@camtheham13]

With probes, there is an element of precision required, so that may be related

[@camtheham13]

With probes, there is an element of precision required, so that may be related

[@thewii552]

lol, Dave, you're very lucky...I'm pretty sure Agilent would never send me something that's worth more than a car :P Let alone anything...

[@KasunTalwatta]

Damn .. only dave can score all these freebies.

[@ivanv754]

Hey, leave that dog tag in a geocache!

[@splodge69552]

I'll be your work experience student!!!!!

[@aptsys]

Your camera is awful at focus. Is it faulty?

[@fallingwater]

19:50 well, now we know why he always sounds high... xD

[@mbainrot]

The PFANG is starts at a measly $21500 AUD lol

[@halesworth01]

Said alesham hope that helps

[@yakacm]

that's what I was going to say.

[@RedRobster]

It does look like a shrimp (prawn) !

[@bcsupport]

MAGNET !

[@atomikrobot300099]

Nice!

[@celestemangonya]

lol im in Colorado like Agilent

PFANG has ugly looking Graphical User Interface on this LCD. But otherwise it looks like beautiful device.

[@TimsVideoArchief]

Finland uses euro´s

[@DMStern]

Throw the probe on the barbie!

[@NerdNordic]

nice

[@DeviloftheHelll]

hahh freebies, i want 1 of those too

[@FooBar89]

is that AUSTRIA? ;)

[@NerdNordic]

Finish dollar xD

[@flapjackboy]

It's pronounced "Ale-sham"

[@KickF]

19:50 "what a Sexy bit of kit... oh hang on, ... *sniff, snoort* ... Oh yeaaah! it got that high price Agilente smell" OMG LOL ... humour only know electronics geeks, others will just look at us as weird eyes and conpare us to some strange Japanese fetishes xD lol

[@flapjackboy]

It's pronounced "Ale-sham"