Product Design FAIL - IDEAL Multimeter

Bad Product Design 101:
How to screw up your product with a simple design oversight.
The IDEAL brand 61-342 looked like a nice multimeter until Dave tried to actually use it and discovered an epic product design FAIL!

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• ideal
• multimeter
• epic
• massive
• fail
• product
• design
• tilting
• bail
• stand
• jaycar
• fluke
• extech
• amprobe

[TimeForTimer]

Douche review is the real fail..

[EEVblog]

@TimeForTimer This was't a review. Check out my $100 multimeter shootout.

[NoSurrenderX25]

Actually man, you FAIL... Fluke for example, is THE best Dvom out on the market and its design is exactly like the Ideal. I'm an ASE certified tech and rarely do I set my meter up on its stand. Talk to just about any tech, if they do use the stand, they'd more than likely prop it up against something that wouldn't allow it to fall. That's just common sense man.

[EEVblog]

@NoSurrenderX25 Bullshit. You should have watched my follow-up video before making a fool out of yourself.

[EEVblog]

@cityshots

Crikey, have you ever used a multimeter on the bench?

If it's a got a tilting bail then it's designed to be used upright on the bench, that includes pressing the buttons. It fails.

[EEVblog]

@migsantiago

This clearly wasn't a review. It's just something I observed and wanted to share quickly before the full shootout of the 5 $100 meters.

I think it's rude they designed a meter that doesn't stand up on the bench properly.

[sonicfuker]

Hahahahahaaaaahgahahahahahaha! It's shit.

[bobhaha]

Why does the voltage climb on your DMM? I noticed it happens also with my DMM and the only way to stop it is to press the backlight button. Is this a sign of a cheap / dodgey DMM?

[TheOneToxic]

seen just about all your blogs...

Im surprised there are people here who disagree with you when you clearly have a passion for multimeter and as far as im concerned you are the master of meters. I can only hope that as a job you design multimeters to be honest.

Thank you for all the wonderful videos you have posted (and i was very impressed with your clock lag idea (the under water dataloggers)). I shall be attending warwick uni to do EE soon and i shall advise you as a good reference ;D!!!!!!!

[militantmindset]

this video really got the trolls going didnt it lololol

[EEVblog]

@joerideman Good explanation. Regardless of who designed it, obviously no one bothered to test it with the buttons standing up. Or if they did, they didn't care that it was unstable. For those who claim I'm being picky and it doesn't matter, watch my follow up video where I compare it to 20 other meters. None of them fall over, but this one does. Fail.

[joerideman]

@ecco88 There is a thin line between a designer and an engineer. In any case the designer task is to implement the usability, interaction and looks as defined by the cliënt.

But the looks of a device will tell the user how to use it. So if this meter falls over it is a Bad design. It made the user think it could operate the device in a standing position.

[stephrb73]

@NoSurrenderX25 Seriously, people, THAT'S your complaint? Can we get more complacent and spoiled these days? I agree that it's common sense. It probably says in the manual even that the easel is to make viewing easier if you so choose to use it, but if you're going to push the stinkin' buttons, then hold the damn thing or prop it down, it's not that difficult. This product is freakin' amazing compared to something that would be Chinese-made that would have electrical mistakes galore!

[comsoft]

@comsoft On the opposite, if a cheap Chinese company will have a bad soldering and 8 hour battery, i can close my eyes, i cannot expect too much from a cheap meter. but from a company like Agilent which you pay for the brand name, you expect MUCH MUCH more , especially on the quality side. So to see a product from this company with a bad soldering quality, is THE reason to give a THUMB down!!!