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Blew $150 on a fancy avionics test set that gathered dust for a year
Back in 2019 I bought this used DMM with waveform capability thinking it'd solve all my troubleshooting issues on old King radios. Turns out my basic Fluke does the same job 90% of the time and that extra feature set just sits in the case. Anyone else drop cash on a tool that sounded great but ended up being overkill for the bench work you actually do?
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alex30729d ago
Blew $80 on a "smart" soldering iron that just beeps at me now.
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davis.ruby29d ago
Honestly, that "solve all my troubleshooting issues" line hits close to home. I grabbed one of those fancy digital calipers with data logging thinking I'd use it every day, but I still reach for my old Mitutoyo because it just works. Ngl, half the time the simple tools are all you really need.
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The data logging feature sounds great on paper but how often do you actually sit down and look at those numbers later? @davis.ruby I've got a buddy who bought a fancy torque wrench that emails him a report every time he uses it. He laughs about it because he's never once opened the emails. Same with my old Fluke multimeter, it has a bluetooth app that I installed once and never touched again. Sometimes the extra features just turn a tool into a headache when all you wanted was to get the job done.
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