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Hello all,
I am the manufacturer of the TestMaster. You can check it out at www.R2WOW.com Click on the TestMaster link and it will tell you all about it. It is real and is being final beta tested right now and I hope to make the available soon. Let me know what you think Thanks, Rick Rood

Hello Rick, thank you for confirming the testMaster is real and it's not a joke. Has your company decided what the selling price will be ? Would it be readily available to us from many different electronics suppliers or at first will only be available directly from your company ?. Any of your responses will be appreciated. Is it possible yet to have a brochure of the TestMaster if I will E-Mail you my address ?
Mister.T

The target price for the unit is less than 500.00. The unit is modular so when new test modules come out you will be able to use the new feature with the original unit. Module will be less than 100.00. The unit will be available direct and through distribution.

The brochure has the same info as the web page but, if you e-mail me I will be glad to send you the full color printed version.

Thanks for your interest, Rick Rood

Hmmm Jay, guess you look like an ass now.

CJ

Ok,

I tried the link and learned nothing about the Testmaster.
How about some real info. about the product.

Dennis

Ok,

I tried the link and learned nothing about the TestMaster.
How about some real info. about the product.

Dennis

what exactly do you mean by test---any monitor will allow me to "test" audio and video--seems like a fancy portable lcd-

Well put glaro. Why don't we see an all in one test device with useful functions like impedance with calculated watts for 70V systems, CAT 5 tester, Continuity, Wire distance calculator, Pink noise generator, Video generator with test patterns, etc. That would lighten up my tool kit considerably. Theres no info on what this device is outputing and inputing. Just to say video and audio inputs and outputs doesnt tell me s***. Are they test tones and patterns I can use? Composite video? Component video? RGB/VGA video? Low level audio out? Is this mic level, line level, speaker level? There is a lot of info missing. rickrood, Can you elaborate?

The unit has been designed to be a cost effective way to trouble shoot problems in the field. The modules will be coming to test a myriad of things but a single unit to do all that you have asked would cost the end user over 2K. As a designer with many years of install time I found that simple tasks such as quick testing of a source component to verify output or a verifiable constant composite video or an audio output would let me rule out obvious problems when my customer has no sound or picture. Also, verifying that the cable signal is actually at the home and/or being distributed through it would make trouble shooting CATV problems much easier. The TestMaster is the only hand held unit that can tune CATV channels and give a DB level for them as well. Now you can tune modulators right at the modulation location instad of going from set to set.

If you are looking for the 100% all in one unit that can test everything, you will be looking for a while. If you do find it (it doesn't exist) expect to pay 2-3K for it.

I set out to build a tool to help the everyday installer at a price he can afford. I have several out in the field in Beta test and anyone who has one will not give it up.

I hope this answers some of you questions about the unit. Maybee I shoud have called the Trouble Shoot Master....Damn marketing people.

Thanks for your interest, Rick Rood

Thanks Rick. You have answered none of my questions while focusing on one function. CATV signals are easy to test for. If the cable box receives no signal. You have no signal. or a bad cable box. I don't need a $500.00 (plus $100.00 for the CATV module) unit to tell me that. Please don't claim your product is the "ultimate setup, testing, and troubleshooting tool when it hardly does any of these things.

I would glady pay $2500 for a product that did. I have more than that invested in my real world setup, testing, and troubleshooting gear.

Thanks but no thanks

Studio,

Have you ever been involved in a residential installation? Your comments lead me to believe that you may not even know what a modulator is. Ragging on my product is like getting mad at Ford because the cars they build don't fly.And just how were you going to determine if that cable box is bad or if you were getting a signal at all? I'll get back to you on that. If you were installing a DLP or LCD projector and needed a signal before the system was set up, where would you get it? If you were at a jobsite and wanted to find out if you had output from both channels of your DVD or VCR, how would you check it? If you have no picture when you were inputing a signal from a Dish, how would you quickly determine if you had a bad video input on the TV or a bad sat receiver? If you had finished a cable distribution system and the owner's TV's were not installed yet, how would you be sure your distribution worked?

Perhaps you would use the several thousands of dollars of equipment you boast resides in your kit but, there are thousands of us that see the benefit of one small handheld device to do these tasks as well as countless other trouble shooting and testing functions.

Try to understand that the TestMaster has been developed after talking to 100's of installers, commercial, residential and automotive. Over 100,000 little LCD test monitors are sold every year and they do only 1 thing. Monitor a video system. My unit does many more things and is only about 150.00 more. Those marketing people again.

I have been doing this A/V thing for 15 years and been developing the TestMaster for over 2 with enough money invested to buy a nice home. I feel I have done the research to know what will sell and make money and it is not a 3,000.00 piece of equipment.

Rick Rood

Your very good at avoiding all of my original questions. I have been involved in the design, installation, testing and programming of systems (residential and commercial) that are larger and more complicated than you can even begin to imagine. If your going to focus on the CATV portion of your "testmaster" then why don't you go market this thing to the cable guy circuit. The professionals I work with will use test gear that's useful. If I am installing a projector and don't have a system yet I plug in my Extron VTG200 video generator that happens to fit in my hand also. This unit outputs any video or computer signal you can imagine. Not just composite video. You still didn't tell me what your unit outputs. As far as audio, thats easy. A radio Shack test speaker with mini amp is fine for troubleshooting audio signals. I think it cost me $12. So is my DMM that has db measurements. Obviously you have not talked to any real world commercial installers or any other real A/V technicians. If you think me asking questions about the types of inputs and outputs your unit has is ragging then I know you haven't talked to any real techs.

Don't worry Rick. Someone out there will buy your product and you will be able to keep that nice home.

Let me know when your ready to answer my original questions.

Rick,

I can see a number of uses for the product you describe. For the projected cost and projected feature set this seems like an item I can equip each of my techs with. While as others have pointed out there are devices that will (likely) do each of the functions you device does better, I'm guess that most of them, including the Extron mentioned above, cost considerably more that the total cost of you item.

I carry a Swiss Army knive with me. It doesn't do everything, and doesn't do anything better than the purpose-built tool I might use to do the job. However, if using the Swiss Army knife to screw in a wall plate, strip a wire or whatever saves me steps or an entire service call, it's a valuable tool.