Test Equipment Anonymous

Anyone bought wafer switches lately? Had a look at some today for work (I've plenty of stock for personal use) and was shocked at the prices. £30-50 per wafer and £50-60 for the mechanism :shock: That's 5 to 10 times what the were last time I looked. Seriously considering a board full of DPCO relay...

MED6753 wrote: ↑Thu May 15, 2025 12:39 pm So it appears that the only real solution is the purchase a proper hp branded spectrum analyzer. I'll put it on my "wish" list.

If you let me know what your approximate budget is, I'll keep an eye out and post any appropriate ones I see in the US, in Private Marketplace

Nixies? What are those? I haven't got any device with numitron/minitron displays. No, I don't want cockpit instruments nor petrol pumps, thank you very much. They do seem quite difficult to find. This thing is a real oddball, no manufacturers mark, probably an internal special or something. The tri...

Nixies? What are those?

Specmaster wrote: ↑Fri Apr 11, 2025 2:24 pm Oh, but those photos are of an AMD AM5 socket and AMD Ryzen processor?

I'll be having to carefully not damage the bloody pins myself, soon enough; bought a R5 9600X on sale, will probably go for a Gigabyte mb with the B850 chipset

These are British roads, they aren't long and straight, for the most part, where you could hit cruise control and doze off. Our roads are very narrow by comparison, and demand constant attention, especially in remote areas like that. If it were a breeze to drive there and back, I'd have it myself.

So what was the outcome, new motherboard and processor? I take it that you were building a new computer so the motherboard was at fault. I think that they could have made the die of the processor larger and used the same pins that they used on earlier processors which had stood the test of time? No...

So what was the outcome, new motherboard and processor? I take it that you were building a new computer so the motherboard was at fault. I think that they could have made the die of the processor larger and used the same pins that they used on earlier processors which had stood the test of time? No...

Cubdriver wrote: ↑Tue Apr 08, 2025 5:15 pm Somewhere in the æther there is a pocket that's full of old style Clement cabinet feet and those tiny badges, as they so frequently are missing...

-Pat

A bag of 15 or so went on ebay for about 30 currency units a few weeks ago...

gotta' admit that you brits did some limited episode series that were freakin' great. "I Claudius" and "Danger UXB" come to mind. had long given up hope that we would ever do similar.......until "band of brothers" came along. edit on second thought......wasn't the red ...

These are excellent sources and resources. Still, tape is only interesting as a historical medium, and all possible effort should be directed towards transferring their content to ones and zeros and storing those on hard drives. I refer you to the honorable gentleman: https://external-content.duckd...

Those have been heavily compressed, to 0.75MB/image, and to have artefacts surrounding the lines. They appear to have been taken with an "iPhone X", so I would expect better. I can automatically improve the text and schematics, but the images don't improve. Is there any way of getting the...

Here's the full set, hosted on servimg https://i49.servimg.com/u/f49/16/28/02/75/img_4610.jpg https://i49.servimg.com/u/f49/16/28/02/75/img_4611.jpg https://i49.servimg.com/u/f49/16/28/02/75/img_4612.jpg https://i49.servimg.com/u/f49/16/28/02/75/img_4613.jpg https://i49.servimg.com/u/f49/16/28/02/7...

By useful coincidence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXSojAGOlDY&list=WL&index=94 Typical yootoob:takes forever to say something. How long did he spend twittering about capacitor leakage measurements? Nonetheless: he indicated the big resistors were heaters for when it was cold. Possible,...

Did he indicate any reason for swapping the transistors? That might point to root cause failures elsewhere. I saw a little of the scope trace for the ring counter. With a multichannel DSO it ought to be possible to work out the source of the problem, by just leaving it running and capturing the eye...

In other words, you want me to tear mine back down and figure it out, in order to make a less wordy and more concise analysis. I did point out in the comments for his video that the ladder transistors seem to have been swapped out on his, from ge to si, and I wonder if that is (more) gorilla eviden...