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


Where are you in Penang? Are you permanent there? I've spent so little
time in Penang that I can't find my way around except in Georgetown.
The last time we stopped there for a couple of days on the way from
Singapore to Phuket. Stayed at the new marina next to the ferry
terminal (which a friend says is already beginning to silt up) and
wandered around in town for a bit and took a taxi down to Tesco for
provisions. Perhaps it is just being a tourist but I've always felt
like I was being ripped off every time I took a taxi in Penang :-)


Cheers,

Bruce