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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.

[@rougenaxela]

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

[@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! :)

[@toxanbi]

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

[@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.

[@franklinfrankerson]

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

[@PeterWorkman]

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

[@illustriouschin]

Will you have to send that Agilent stuff back?

[@BulletMagnet83]

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

[@gamccoy]

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

[@jaapweel1]

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

[@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...

[@p1oooop]

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

[@Nermash]

I see an active probe tutorial coming on:)

[@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.

[@cleverca22]

thats a ton of decimal places on the generator!

[@aptsys]

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

[@EEVblog]

Yeah, real bargain huh? :->

[@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

[@jerzmacow]

You need a mail bag song.

[@demoniack81]

It probably has a rubidium reference clock inside.

[@Monkeh616]

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

[@KasunTalwatta]

Damn .. only dave can score all these freebies.

[@EEVblog]

It's just on loan to play around with.

[@ivanv754]

Hey, leave that dog tag in a geocache!

[@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...

[@aptsys]

Your camera is awful at focus. Is it faulty?

[@splodge69552]

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

[@mbainrot]

The PFANG is starts at a measly $21500 AUD lol

[@fallingwater]

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

[@halesworth01]

Said alesham hope that helps

[@yakacm]

that's what I was going to say.

[@RedRobster]

It does look like a shrimp (prawn) !

[@celestemangonya]

lol im in Colorado like Agilent

[@atomikrobot300099]

Nice!

[@bcsupport]

MAGNET !

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

[@DMStern]

Throw the probe on the barbie!

[@TimsVideoArchief]

Finland uses euro´s

[@NerdNordic]

nice

[@DeviloftheHelll]

hahh freebies, i want 1 of those too

[@NerdNordic]

Finish dollar xD

[@FooBar89]

is that AUSTRIA? ;)

[@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"

[@flapjackboy]

It's pronounced "Ale-sham"