I work as technician in a Singapore semiconductor factory. Here I share my working life as technician.
Small ADAM is used when you know there are limited channels that you going to have for a tool. With only 8 channels configurable, you'd better make sure you do not need to add more channels in near future to prevent channels not enough.
The only good thing about Small ADAM only is its size is handy , so simply a box able to fit it and work fine.
But small ADAM is bringing more problem than the benefit it brings , the connection simply just unfriendly. 4 channels at one side, and 4 others at the other side.
The cable tidiness is more difficult to achieve.
Small ADAM also having another significant drawback, older version you will have to open up the cover to toggle the settings, eg from current input to voltage input and vice versa.
Though the newer version have improvement over this weakness, they put it behind the cover. Yet consider the messiness of cable, in order to access this dip switch at the behind, also take some effort in it.
