On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 17:01:30 -0700 (PDT), Bil
wrote:
On Jun 24, 5:42*pm, Bruce wrote:
For what it is worth, I was down at the electronics district, in
Bangkok, today, looking for solar panels for a mate and noticed some
Chinese made meters. Had a look and they were selling an AC-DC 400 amp
meter for US$ 25.00. This wasn't by any means the top of their line
but I've got a number of other meters made by this company and while
they are not a Fluke by any means for general work they are
satisfactory.
Thanks for the heads up!
Care to mention a brand name? I'm not a million miles from you, so I
likely see much the same gear in my local retailers.
I've been v impressed by the pocket size Sanwa PM3 multimeters sold
locally. They're made in Japan and just a tad better than the much
cheaper China-made ones (but I use them too).
On another topic ... in a different forum, you mentioned that you've
made three or more installations of MaxSea v 10 on Win 7 laptops, with
MaxSea running in XP mode..
My trusty Win XP laptop died. So I'm in the process of turning a Win 7
x 64 laptop into the boat's nav center.
So my Q is: when you said 'MaxSea running in XP mode', did you mean
installing MaxSea in a virtual machine (ie using M$ Virtual PC and M$
XP Mode) or installing MaxSea in Win 7 (x86 or x64? SentEmul doesn't
work in x64, but the usual dongle codes etc do work) and then setting
XP mode in the Properties of the executable?
Cheers
Bil
For the meter see
http://www.uni-trend.com/portfolio.html
They seem to cover the gamut of meter requirements and are very common
here.
The Maxsea's I installed were on x86 Win 7 and (if I remember
correctly) I installed them and then clicked on the icon and specified
XP immolation. I don't use Maxsea so I installed it more for eye candy
that anything else but it did work using CM-93 charts and displayed
the correct position when connected to a GPS. A good friend does use
Maxsea on a 32 bit Windows laptop and says it works perfectly.
I don't use Windows much any more and have switched to Linux for
everything except the rare app that absolutely won't run on Linux. I
did install Win 7 (32 bit) on my grand daughter's "game" computer and
frankly I don't like it much and have continued to run XP for anything
I use windows for.
Cheers,
Bruce