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
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Penang, Malaysia