Your Favourite Cool Or Must Have Tools

[Specialist]

my iphone...... well your all thinking why ain't you, well i have the rj45 connection wiring on there, i just cant remember the color sequence of the top of my head.

and i can listen to my tunes on site with my headphones, i can also use it to dial into the cctv systems and check the pictures.

and my 12v to 240volt inverter so i can charge my batteries in the van, nothing worse than getting on site with a flat cordless drill battery

Like it, good choices

[arfur mo]

Iphone with 10 gig of Idisk on our cloud, anyone in the company can see cusotmers on stop, engineer codes etc.

Then my computar test monitor £80.00 off ebay. Then Laptop etc....

But most off all our printer that prints out the invoices... LOL

Printer! No! and thrice No! .

I email all mine, ask for confirmed receive, ping it again if they don't. Then call for confirmed while asking is system ok .).

PDF of it/them I'n their my docs folder. Sync that to my iPhone, I then have a copy to email immediately while they are on the phone, if they say they did not get before. Stops all that 'lost I'n the post' nonsense.

App let's me look at my bank to see if BACS received, these day BACS tend to transfere very quickly often within minutes, again stops "it's I'n the post' or bounced cheques routines.

Arfur

[alterEGO]

Printer! No! and thrice No! .

I email all mine, ask for confirmed receive, ping it again if they don't. Then call for confirmed while asking is system ok .).

PDF of it/them I'n their my docs folder. Sync that to my iPhone, I then have a copy to email immediately while they are on the phone, if they say they did not get before. Stops all that 'lost I'n the post' nonsense.

App let's me look at my bank to see if BACS received, these day BACS tend to transfere very quickly often within minutes, again stops "it's I'n the post' or bounced cheques routines.

Arfur

No body emails them all. We have some very well off old tmers that would laugh if i asked for an email address.

[arfur mo]

No body emails them all. We have some very well off old tmers that would laugh if i asked for an email address.

lol!

perhaps over the years i have managed to 'train' 'em .

tbh all the companies i deal with have email, of those fewer private house's without email i think tend to be the older generation (should that be younger now ).

all, so far have a family member who has email, and tbh that also helps allay any 'watch dog' type fears of 'mum/dads vulnerable and being screwed over' by a rogue if they don't know me. all the spec's, as is the finances are being overseen and scrutenised by a more alert younger son or daughter, they can quiery anything before i get my tools out, i find it just works well in so many ways.

Most all my clients either pay by BACS (which is great for bank reconcilliation) or cheque on the day, very few pay cash as i don't encourage it by doing 'discounts for cash', i instead for those who ask get a % off for prompt payment, so all above board.

i've found early days with cash deals, to often you only end up going back at your extra expense because "i did not get to the bank" , and being VAT registered, i know the inspectors are not stupid, so tbh just a pia for book keeping and also paying it in at the bank as i won't trust paying in cash ammounts through the ATM having been bitten once by them..

Arfur

[hpotter]

ddm & invoice either left at time of rm or posted (if firm).

ddm can check on line. did i mention my favorite?

[Specialist]

ddm & invoice either left at time of rm or posted (if firm).

ddm can check on line. did i mention my favorite?

You mean www. H? but what about your favourite meter?

[hpotter]

Still got avo 8 knocking around.

tbo, aint got any favorite, there's just too many different types of test gear we all carry (or occasionally bring from stores). i'd say me favorite there is the one i decided to bring on the day i didnt think i'd need it but yo!

built a scope in 70's on a week by week basis from a magazine. got the bug, so built another (hameg) in kit form. think they're carp now, but info i got from building etc..

[Specialist]

Can't fault you mate, still have an Avo 8 myself & don't think i'd ever get shot of it. Scope project sounds like a good learning curve, gotta be honest though I bought my Hameg a couple of years ago. Bloody thing's too big to take out on site so I bought a little Digiscope that has come in handy a few times.

[arfur mo]

I have a working Sinclair DM2 DVM complete with original leather carry case, 30 years sgo I paid £100.00 towards it, firm paid the rest.

First DVM i ever owned, red led display meant you could see it from a long way in a dingy warehouxse while working on cc wiring,

just as well as same size as the 1st pansonic mobiles.

Did a lot of work with it, owes me nothing just i can't bare to part with it

Old hat now, but still a class bit of kit IMO.

[Specialist]

I have a working Sinclair DM2 DVM complete with original leather carry case, 30 years sgo I paid £100.00 towards it, firm paid the rest.

First DVM i ever owned, red led display meant you could see it from a long way in a dingy warehouxse while working on cc wiring,

just as well as same size as the 1st pansonic mobiles.

Did a lot of work with it, owes me nothing just i can't bare to part with it

Old hat now, but still a class bit of kit IMO.

Lovely bit of kit, can't see todays meters lasting that long. Believe it or not Arf ther'es 1 being sold on ebay at the moment for £25