Not to contradict NI's App-Ings, but all of NIs DMMs have a huge
drawback from my point of view. This is, they are all 'internal',
meaning they need to be installed into a computer or PXI chassis.
Nowadays PCs have little or no PCI slots free and a PXI chassis is much
to expensive for 'just' a DMM.
I'd love to have a 'mobile' solution, based on USB2 or Firewire
or even on a serial connection. IMHO DMMs are not necessary for
quick measurements and huge amounts of data, but for exact ones, maybe
with internal triggering and internal preprocessing. At least
with my test apps It was sufficient to get some 10 readings per second
if the DMM supports True-RMS and some kind of DC+AC mode.
You may look for 'B&K precision' DMMs, they have a DMM 'BK5491A',
which is a programmable desktop DMM, is much cheaper and connects
serially to the computer. Or there are lots of handheld DMMs with
serial or USB connection...
Just my Euro 0.02!
Greetings from Germany!<br>-- <br>Uwe
