My personal favroite is the standard Fluke model. Leatherman. Im surpirsed the Popular Mechanics article didnt lits this as an honorable mention. Ive already written about its usefulness. Power Supply ... You have to have some way to automate data acquisiiton nad storage. Ive used Visual Basic, C heck, Ive even used Fortrna. But like it or not, Labview is edsigned to be used for test engineeirng, and it shows. Statistics Package. Once you get the data, ...