Comments on: Tools: Smart Tweezers

By: charleston personal injury lawyer

charleston personal injury lawyer — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:49:36 +0000

Great and useful tool…but the price is a little high. Thanks for the review.

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:13:16 +0000

Does “pcb debugging” mean that this tool can test components in circuit like my old BK transistor tester can? Only transistors, of course. :) In the event that’s the case it may very well be worth the money to the tech who earns a living trouble shooting boards populated with SMD.

By: Brian Symons

Brian Symons — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:54:03 +0000

Similar looking Smart Tweezers but only with resistance & capacitance measuring capabilities on eBay are less than $50 with freight. They call them SMD Tweezers MS8910

By: lens42

lens42 — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 07:48:39 +0000

I’ve been using these tweezers for years. They are essentially free and can be made in about 5 minutes.

http://saselectronics.blogspot.com/2009/03/this-home-made-surface-mount-device-smd.html

By: Roofu86

Roofu86 — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:44:50 +0000

I disagree, it’s not an ad, it’s a review. And just think about how many people are buzzing about how to make their own now. I’m pretty sure that more people who come to this site are likely to build one than buy one. And if you didn’t think about building your own, it’s not Hack-A-Day’s fault you’re uninspired.

By: Mastro Gippo

Mastro Gippo — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:18:24 +0000

Smart tweezers for the rest of us!
http://mondo-technology.com/super.html
A lot more functions, but some tradeoffs. Very cool anyway.

By: Sammy

Sammy — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 04:54:04 +0000

…and what eliot Phillips suggested is much more feasible

By: Sammy

Sammy — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 04:52:06 +0000

i like this, but it’s way to expensive for me….

By: trevis

trevis — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 01:38:23 +0000

There is a left-handed option there. One selects it in the menu and display flips for left-handed use.

By: Diego Bouvier

Diego Bouvier — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 20:20:25 +0000

It’s me, or a lot of people here are left handed? (I include myself)

By: The Steven

The Steven — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 19:21:41 +0000

@Ian Lesnet

When I looked at their website, I saw no mention of said menu, I called them and asked about left handed use, I would have paid for it on the spot if they said anything about it.

By: ferm

ferm — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 18:59:50 +0000

just in case advanced devices is listening:

if you get the price down to 125 or so I’ll buy one.

not worth $300.

By: Diego Bouvier

Diego Bouvier — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 15:44:51 +0000

They (Advance Devices) send to hkdy people two of them so they can make a “review”. I think most of us will make the same, i mean make a “review”, if you can gen two of those for free. or not?

I agree, it’s tooo expensive, yes is a good measure tool, but is too expensive to people that search for a cheap way to make (and measure) things. There are a lot of LC meters made with a PIC16F84, they are good, they are cheap, and you can find it searching internet. Yes, they’re not perfect, but they work.

(I’m sorry, but my english is not so good as i want)
Regards from uy (uruguay)

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 14:58:16 +0000

Deal-killers for me:

* $300
* no inductance measurements below 1uH
* no voltage measurements above 8V

By: royce

royce — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 14:47:13 +0000

@fartface I spend more like $4 on mine. I find that for for 99% of my DIY applications, the $4 model works spectacularly.

@pawel Nice! I pulled the article and software. I’ll see if I can’t make it work! Thanks much!