I don't think the asking price ia particularly excessive, although I paid nowhere near that for mine a number of years ago. I got a quote for calibration recently from Fluke. $1056 for traceable cal with data, $1407 for accredited cal. That is provided the unit is received with battery backup still keeping the references up to temperature. Unfortunately the batteries (PS-618) are unobtanium and replacements are a different physical size so some mods are necessary. Then it becomes a matter of justifying the cost of the cal for hobby use... Steve K. On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 2:05 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message > <CAE6XXrg7Br3kw7EFCEipLWoyV3OHU36MLWcBjiJW7wREHT=WSQ@mail.gmail.com> > , Will writes: > >> I friend e-mailed me this: >> >> http://www.ebay.com/itm/270897641120 >> >> I have never bought anything from Ebay and I don't know the system >> very well, but it seems that someone really paid $4300. Maybe there >> is >> something that I am missing? > > That is a very typical used price for the 4-way Datron references if > you look at used eq dealers. > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to > malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. > > _______________________________________________ > volt-nuts mailing list -- volt-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volt-nuts > and follow the instructions there.