NTT: Hioki 3490 Analogue MΩ HiTESTER
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- Опубліковано 4 лип 2022
- What’s that, analogue you say? Analogue??! Surely in this world of digital test instruments there’s simply no value to something with a pointy pointer that points to printed pictures of poxy numbers?! Well, maybe… but surely all those pesky Australians can’t be wrong?!
Notes:
At 5:51 I wibble on about aligning the needle through the centre of the infinity marks on the display, then after much twiddling I leave it cock-off. That’s just because the camera was in the way and I was looking at it from the side, but it goes to show how an adjustment of this sort needs to be made when facing it squarely on.
It’s also of note that I say the MFT1552 shows an electronic ‘analogue’ display ranging in voltage from 0 to 600, the latter number indicating full-scale deflection, yet the legend printed to the left of the Megger’s LCD shows no more than 500V should be applied… so that’s a bit weird and serves to make me look quite the fool.
I should also state that Megger, and the 15 or 17 series of testers, aren’t the only brand or models of digital instruments that show an analogue representation on their LCD displays. My TIS MFT Pro has such on IR, in a very basic way, and that cute Robin KTS1625 has a digitally represented scale too. Other machines have similar no doubt.
Oh, I know there's been a glut of new videos spouted out here over the past week which is most out of character. Rest assured, the next one may be weeks away!
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The quality of the content is far higher than the sub count might show. Stick that in your algorithm and choke on it tubers viewers. Thing is Dave, you're doing things no one else does and that's massively appreciated. I, we and anyone who arrives at this channel will find it hard to not like and ironically subscribe to this masterclass of brilliance mixed up with the occasional foul mouthed rant. That's a great new toy you have, now let's see it out in the field. Also, I'm loving the new outside broadcasting studio 👌🏻.
Why, Mr Beck... you make me blush with your blowing of my pink oboe! More to come from the CoOp car park no doubt... until we get asked to "move on before the police are called" as has happened at the pub and cafe we previously recorded from in other videos!
well said
👍👍👍👍👍👍
It’s refreshing not to be asked to like and subscribe every 5 minutes. Still my favourite electrical channel.
Indeed; f you find something you like here, then we're doing it wrong Mike!
I was just about to do a CPD on earth rods when the notification of your latest installment lead me away, as it is always great to see a new one of your vids. I was also going to include the comment of "you put your left arm in, your left arm out" but seeing as Nige got shot down I will get my coat! You're like one of those fellas who goes to old car meets, regarding your testers aren't you, momories of halcion days? Not that there is anything wrong with that. I do wonder how your Shelf of Sh1T is coping under the strain these days though. In regards to UA-cam, I have to say I applaud you for not asking us every few minutes to "smash the Like button", "share with your friends" and "subscribe so you don't miss anything" nor bombarding us with ads every few minutes, you are a hero for that let alone the great content.
Lots of humour in this episode and, as usual, a joy to watch. Thank you.
Hero? Crikey Olly! The shelf is indeed getting a little creaky, but I've now utilised the windowsill to cope with the overspill!
Think you guys are great. I look forward to watching your videos. They are by far more interesting and in depth than the other chaps we all know about. Keep it up guys. ;)
Cheers Dexter
I always look forward to one of your videos, your channel has to be my favourite of all the sparky ones out there :-)
Thanks Mark. Glad you used the British 'favourite' there too!
Ermmm?
@@NBundyElectrical Your videos are OK Mr B but I am sorry to say your no Mr Savery, sorry.
quality over quantity is the best way, I've always found your videos better than most. You've made me want a bloody analogue tester now.
Thanks SW, and sorry if you invest in a new toy based on my ramblings!
Perfection...love the content... your mental state is straight up my street... May I add Nige is looking great since he's lost weight ... keep it up (im talking about the good work)
Thanks for the kind comment Marcus!
David, thanks for the video. You are great.
Cheers Jose!
Brilliant stuff as always.
Cheers for tuning in!
This is by far the best sparky channel out there. I think I speak for all your follows. You are respected and people take note of what your saying. Very hard to achieve this. You dont come across as a show off channel nor create click bait videos. Keep up the great work. P.S After watching your Monday Club video taking about Your Trade Base and mocking Tradify :). I signed up to Your Trade Base. Brilliant recommendation.
Cheers chief. Yes, YTB is pretty nifty, I'm glad to hear it's doing the do for you!
Good to have you back
With three videos in the past week, some would say I've been back a little too much lately!
@@dsesuk I will catch up then.
Do love your attention to detail david
Thank you Keith. It was just knocked up on the fly as Farnell only delivered it yesterday, so I've not had time to really test it in anger yet!
Your new hypno-trancy-techno-pop outro always reminds me of dude where's my car... Zoltan.....
Absolutely love your videos and the swearing 🙂 always make me laugh so much. Keep up the good work
Thanks Neil
I'm glad you've featured a Hioki. I've been looking at their solar PV tester to go alongside my Seaward. It's the only one in the market that I'm aware of which can measure whilst an array is generating so you don't have to disconnect the cables.
In some scenarios and particularly with some inverters that would make a huge difference to testing arrays that are already in service.
It's also a lot smaller and lighter than the Seaward and comes in that handy looking box thing with the cables.
I particularly like the lock on test switch. It's just a shame it doesn't also do continuity testing.
I've no experience with the brand outside of this thing, but it ought to be a reputable make if the likes of Farnell are flogging it.
bloody hell, a splurge of content from the funniest sparky on UA-cam. it'll take me a few days to catch up on all your stuff but I will, be sure of that my man.
A splurge indeed Jack, but it may be a while before the next one - we have to do some work and earn some flimmin' money!
@@dsesuk Jack 🤣 I'll let you off
@@jockwalker24 My apologies. a drunken typo I assure you Jack.
I'm honoured (and that's not honoured not honored, as we in the very sunny convict colony, prefer the kings spelling too 😂) I need to get one of those calcards - that's an awesome little unit! Even I learned a bit in this video and I've had the bloody thing for years haha! Thanks for the plug too, Cheers 🍻
Cheers Dave. I hope the soggy weather is drying up and not getting into your cables down there?
New tool Tuesday is back 🙌
It's back - and cack. As always.
Love the way the analogue needle is pointing to the East
Must be a French magnet!
Good video. Like your attention to detail with analogue scales and range. Lets not forget about Mr Muller. Radiation counteers should be called Geiger Muller counter/detector. Keep up the good work and remember to drink more alchohol to help recovery from covid.
Thanks for the correction Sergio. I shall be sure to take your sage medical advice too!
Great stuff.
I'm after an IR tester that has a good low range for use on testing whether bonding or supplementary bonding is needed
If I could find one that had the whole scale from 0 - 1Mega Ohm I would be very happy, this model is getting very close to what I want
I mean my Megger on IR goes as low as 0.2Meg at 500v, why can't there be an IR tester that goes from 0 - 0.2 Meg so we can fill in the missing spaces that the Mega won't do.
A meter that is sensitive to low values of insulation resistance and is still capable of operating at 500V to obtain those readings.
Great video and thanks very much for posting.
It’s not about the count it’s about the knowledge and that’s what give in abundance so get it up 👍
Thanks for the booze JT!
Love the video I learned a lot in my earlier years on analogue meters also what phone do u have Dave as full keyboard yes please
The obscure phone is a Cosmo Communicator Sam. Me and three other people in the world have one!
@@dsesuk interesting what's it like
@@samlloyd5975 It has it's flaws and foibles! The selling point, the keyboard, isn't as good as it could have been. Key bounce (resulted in repeated characters) is a problem.
Great content. Laugh a minute stuff, whilst being informative
Thanks for putting up with it Ian!
Thanks!
Very kind, cheers Karl!
Thanks
Cheers Stephen, most generous!
Hioki do some nice stuff - I have their DT4282 DMM , which has the fastest autoranging I've seen on a DMM. Knocks the Piss out of Fluke IMO.
I wasn't aware of the brand, but there seems to be some love for it. I'd imagine Japanese stuff would be pretty robust.
Got the same meter, it's chunky but brilliant.
What sort of phone do you have with the keyboard ?
It's a Cosmo Communicator. A bit obscure - takes me back to my Psion days.
A Centimeter… to go along with your Ohmmeter. Just what a Centi is and why one would want to meter it remains a mystery though…
That spelling! Argh, my eyes!
I've just noticed from the other David's video that you linked to, it has stubby probes to go on the end of the banana leads. Does anyone know of anywhere else to get those shorter-than-usual probes? I quite like the look of them, as the strain relief hanging out the end of a standard set of probes often gets to be cumbersome.
They're right-angle connectors as you say, but I haven't shopped around for such.
Sorry, I was referring to the probe end, not the meter end - the removable probes on this unit look to be only about 75mm long, and then the straight plug and strain relief on the lead form part of the handle. As opposed to the usual removable probes that are about 150mm long, and end up way too long when the plug and strain relief on the lead hangs out another 75mm or so, it just ends up being too unwieldy
I like that tester . I saw one on Amazon last year , about £ 60 give or take a tenner I was very tempted . But I already have a Viki VC60B+ digital continuity/ insulation resistance tester branded as Samyo I use it as a basic pat tester just playing around with really. As for the multimeter like that as well
I still have the little Robin multimeter my brother gave me when I first started college it about the same size as a 20 cigarette packet And is still in good condition and working order. Thank you for this video please do more , oh did you yet the Robin amprobe fixed? I do hope so . I will have to send you a picture of my testers see what you might think .
Fantastic video as always mate 👍👍👍👍❤️
Thanks Sean, thought you might like it. Sadly, I've not done anything with the Robin yet, other than opening it up myself to take a peek inside. I checked it recently though and it seemed to be giving sensible numbers on loop, so it may be an intermittent fault with that. I was talking to someone who worked at a calibration repair company who was interested in looking at it, but looks like that hit a dead-end sadly.
@@dsesuk always the way mate someone will always let you down .
That Kyotitsu tester reminded me of the A9083 tester that I’m sure you’re familiar with from your telecom days.
Those old line testers were bulletproof, as were many of the old instruments.
@@dsesuk yes, the newer testers weren’t a patch on some of the older ones. Although they were supposed to hand them in most decent engineers played dumb and said they’d lost theirs! Still got mine in the cellar! 😉
@@Martin64uk Good call - keep it safe!
Same here,managed to salvage two.
Hioki have been around for years, but they don't tend to look at the UK market a lot. I have the digital version of the insulation tester you have, which is also pretty basic compared to other insulation testers on the market for that price category. Their battery impedance testers are very good though, I have used them for 20+ years. They have just brought out a new 5kV tester, that I would like to get hold of.
Those that have come across Hioki seem to like 'em!
@@dsesuk you know anything @Three-phase says you can take to the bank. Fully concur with regards to battery impedance tester that’s where Hioki excel the PQ meter also worth a look
More like Rolf Harris in the pool than the green cross code man😁😁
Nige certainly, I like to think of myself as the Green Cross Code man. After all, he was also the bloke in the Darth Vader outfit!
Nice stuff gents. I've been prompted to make another token coffee/beer payment
Cheers Jim, most generous!
Really good analogue stuff. Love the digs at English spelling though I'm sure was of those words is French.
I suspect a few of those words originated over the channel John!
Well I feel like a quality subscribre.
You're definitely one of the better ones Simon. In fact, there are a few I ought to get rid of!
I'll have to dig out the analogue megger and see if it still works. I bet I have left the bloody 12v battery in it and it will have swelled up and burst and made everything inside green.
I've a couple of old instruments myself that have suffered the dreaded battery bloat!
I have to agree with the speedometer analogy. I've driven one or two cars that had digital speedometers. Not the artificial analogue ones you get these days that emulate traditional speedos - they are ok. Im talking about the ones that just give you a readout of your speed with no scale. I have to say I don't like it - I can't really explain it but it just doesn't feel right.
The Nissan Leaf I used to have had a digital-only readout and I know what you mean. It's not difficult to interpret, but you miss the presence of the scale.
@@dsesuk
The scale works completely the opposite way in my brain..... feel like an underachiever if I can’t keep the needle as near to the top of the scale as possible.... surprised I’ve never been arrested and I’am 53 this year
I do agree that a numerical one would send me to sleep in a fit of narcolepsy.
Cracking’ly educational video though.
Top drawer olde boy 👍❤️👍❤️👍
I've never actually noticed that your subsciber number was missing!
I don't see why it has to be a public number. People get hung up on it.
Definitely about quality, not quantity.
David I think you should treat yourself or nige to a leatherman multitool and do a review on it?! Mine goes everywhere with me. I'm kind of obsessed with it. It's a fine electrical tool!
You know, I think Nige has a Leatherman? I'll have to ask him tomorrow. In my youth, my father ensured I bought a genuine Swiss Army Knife and I used to carry it about my person all the time. It's still in my toolbox now, but doesn't get out much. Maybe I should keep it on the toolbelt for old time's sake?
Yeah good idea. Always handy. Thanks for your reply. Keep up the good work.
82KG or 13 Stone you whoosh Nige' 😜👍 (and I'm a Stone person too, blame Dave for originally using KG 😁)
When Nige gets on his motorbike, the tyres go flat.
How does nigel know about C Library?
He thinks the 'C' stands for something else and that the library is full of dirty books.
A coffee on the bench, is this really you David?
Jarring to see, I know, but this was a mug of English Breakfast as the video was filmed Monday with me drying out for a return to work Tuesday!
Didn't the green cross code man go on to be Darth Vader? Maybe it wasn't a compliment!
David Prowse was indeed the man in the suit... although his West Country accent was deemed not suited for the voice.
Nice video David, sorry but I’m too tight to donate any beer money.
Oh, I quite understand old chum. Your contributions to the comments are more welcome than your cash!
03:37 Seems like Dave is turning into Nigel and Nigel is turning into Dave lol.
On a more serious note on the analogue vs digital debate, my current motorbike has a digital dash and I hate it. I have to actually look down and read it whereas on my old analogue gauged bike, I could see how fast and how many revs I was doing just from seeing where the needles were in my peripheral vision.
I can see when the display get's a third digit though... 😂
One of us is fat, impotent and ugly. Guess which!
David mate them watch springs stay at the back of you throad
Try a bit of brandy
Good advice Tony. You are a doctor? Actually, don't answer that, I'll take the advice anyway!
Lol you’re beginning to sound like ‘Um ya Pete `(bash street kids) at 11:17 of this video :-)
We should start guessing your subscriber number before it re-appears. I'd say 20k.
Y'know what Gary, that's an excellent idea. I might actually run that as a little competition! You'd need to be closer to an absolute number though.
Great video as usual! A little funny story about analogue testers....
My apprentice was getting a bit too cocky with his new shiny Megger MFT and how all of my test equipment (Metrel and Kewtech) was old and dusty.
Now I happened to be going to an underground cable fault so I picked up my very rarely used dear old Megger Bridge BR7. It's a combined wind up IR tester and wheatstone bridge and can do Murray/Varley loop tests to help locate underground cable faults. When he saw it he had a right laugh and made a comment that this heap of junk was a waste of space on the van.
First job of day, we needed to test six circuits, so for fun I said we'd both do it, him on his overpriced shiny machine of plenty, and me on my ancient old gramophone simulator. For 5 of them my results were consistently 0.01ohm different to his, much to his disbelief. He got to circuit 6 first and it had almost zero IR. I left him breaking it down, then he came over all sheepish - my batteries are flat. So I passed him the BR7 and said "get winding!". He had to admit that a battery free tester had it's uses.
Then we got to the job with an underground SWA run with a fault somewhere. I took great pleasure in saying that this old battery-free heap of junk will now do something his box of tricks couldn't, and demonstrated a Murray test, got a fault distance, paced it out and there was a newish looking washing line post within 30cm. Bingo. He couldn't believe his eyes.
By the end of the day he' was looking for one like it on ebay!
So nowt wrong with analogue, if only to help adjust the attitude of the little upstart with the 1752!
Nice one Tim - that'll learn 'em!!
You forgot to mention the price its a bit pricey or in beer terms 65 pints of beer at my local pub or 12 bottles of jack daniels from the supermarket
Yeah, it sucks up a pretty penny for what it offers. I can't see many on these shores plumping for it outside of some niche applications.
Says the man that says 'New' the American way. I wonder where in the UK this is common and not? I have never figured it out, and when I point it out to friends who do this they seems to start alternating between Noo and Nyoo with paranoia.
Half the time when I'm trying to voiceover a video it has to be redone because of the slurring! At least something sort of legible came out of this one!
You would be surprised on how many people on UA-cam use a multi-meter to carry IR tests.
Lawks-a-lawdy, surely not Michael?!
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Incidentally i've never come across a calcard before. I thought "that looks cheap and handy, i'll see where I can find....HOLY SHIT! 20 BASTARD POUND! For a shitty little card like that? No thanks, I'll stick with my homemade one.
Haha! Yeah, it's surprisingly costly, but it does work rather well.
Wanking talons 😂😂😂
They also function as titty-twisters, albeit not as often as perhaps one would like these days.
@@dsesuk story of my life 😂😂😂
Hi David
Have you still got covid ? Surely nothing a few cans of special brew cant sort is it,
I'm back on the van as of yesterday after finally kicking it into touch. I'll get some Brew downed to keep it at bay!
… would it be improper to ask you to leave me your testers in your will?
When I kick the bucket, the wife will be quite happy if you turn up and empty the entire twat cave up to Sheffield!
… Excellent 👍
@@LindaTheLearner That doesn't mean you can bump me off. You'll have to wait for the booze to work its magic.
Bloody hell I thought that was a request for bequeathment of your spuds in a West Country voice. Glad I viewed the replies.
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Haters gonna hate!