Re: FS: Digital Multimeter with Backlight, Nice!

AZ Nomad wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:22:15 -0500, PowerHouse Communications
<PowerHouseCom@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> 
>> "WindsorFox<SS>" <darkshado666@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
>> news:fu8n58$sup$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> AZ Nomad wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:26:21 -0500, WindsorFox<SS> 
>>>> <darkshado666@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>> Bill Golden wrote:
>>>>>> "AZ Nomad" <aznomad.3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>>>>>> WHAT IS THE MAKE AND MODEL?  As long as you fail to include
>>>>>>> this minimal information, it is just a junk of chinese noname
garbage.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hint:  we don't believe you when you say it is better than a
fluke.
>>>>>>> And BTW, its specs suck.  1% to 6% accuracy?  Give me a break.  It

>>>>>>> might
>>>>>> as
>>>>>>> well be a 2 digit meter.  Reminds me a sinclair LED meter from the

>>>>>>> 70's.
>>>>>>> The last digit is just noise.
>>>>>> What you choose to believe appears to be based upon an uninformed
>>>>>> opinion (unless you've personally tested and evaluated this meter,
and
>>>>>> compared features,quality, and price with either a Fluke or a
Tektronix
>>>>>> multimeter).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In order to formulate an informed opinion, rather than spewing
forth an
>>>>>> uninformed opinion as you have, the make of this meter is XILE, and
the
>>>>>> Model is XL830L.  It is not a Fluke or a Tektronix meter, nor is
it's 
>>>>>> price
>>>>>> that of a Fluke or a Tektronix multimeter.
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>   " No results found for XILE XL830L"
>>>> I got some hits for XILE on the chinese crap im****tation websites.
>>>> Nothing for that meter, unsurprisingly.
>>>>
>>>    He told me I needed a better search engine. There are no results on
any 
>>> search I used other than his posts.
>>>
> 
>> Not to back up the OP, but a google search returned 331 pages of
results...
>>
http://www.google.com/search?num=50&hl=en&safe=off&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS214US214&q=XL830L&btnG=Search
> 
> Google guesses at 299 hits, then returns 2 pages.  It was 67 hits,
actually,
> 2/3rds of them chinese.  (your url includes a 50 hits/page
specification)
> (page 2 was hits 51-67)
> 
> I probably got no hits because the ****ing idiot had misspelled the
> manufacturer's name.
> 
> XILE != XIOLE
> 
> I had searched for "XILE XL830L" and unsurprisingly, got nothing but
> the OP's advertisements.
> 
> BTW:  when posting a google link, you can leave off all the crap except
> for the ?q=<searchstring> part.  For example, all you need is:
> http://www.google.com/search?q=xl830l
> 

Ding!

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