Test Equipment Anonymous

I'd quite like a better counter than my TTi PFM1300 handheld thing, but it's not something I use often and I don't really have room for 3U, even if is it shallow. It's still smaller than an hp 5245L... :lol: Don't be dissing the 5245L!!! :P :P :P https://photos.smugmug.com/Electronics/Misc-test-equ...

The strobe on those things is unpleasant, especially if your eyes are dark adjusted and you don't expect it. It might disorient an attacker temporarily. You also have to cycle through the modes to select it. i'm highly sceptical of some of the claims I've seen made for it. They remind me of those n...

A lot of equipment used by the military runs on 115V, presumably USA influence. I doubt anybody at Ramco has powered it up, so I wouldn't be concerned. The PSU is a standard Boschert (sp?) SMPS, easily replaced. The 10811 has a separate PSU that is not turned off by the mains switch on the back pan...

EC8010 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 05, 2026 9:04 am I'd quite like a better counter than my TTi PFM1300 handheld thing, but it's not something I use often and I don't really have room for 3U, even if is it shallow.

It's still smaller than an hp 5245L...

Looks useful for dealing with burglars, too. Indeed. You've even got the choice of either permanently blinding them, or braining them with it! Not to mention brainfreezing them with the strobe or giving them a Megavolt stunning shock, should you select one of the other ebay/Amazon offerings, more d...

EC8010 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 03, 2026 7:24 pm Looks useful for dealing with burglars, too.

Indeed. You've even got the choice of either permanently blinding them, or braining them with it!

I have one from AliX, that I bought after watching a mikeselectricstuff vid.

It's a beast, you can feel the heat off it, and Mike was scorching paper with his.

It weighs in at 1144g, uses 4x 2S 18650 packs in parallel, and can be used as a power bank.

AA for scale in the pic.

Is anybody actually active on here these days, or are you all busy in other areas of life, like me at the moment. I keep checking and I see that nothing seems to be happening? They all seen to be on Discord! It ebbs and flows quite a bit; we can go several days without a new post, and then there's ...

This sounds like rather a pain to me, especially with it being a Frankenstein number. What's the big diode you are looking for? I have a few in my collection. I can't help with the inductor. I shan't go to MK. It was rather a trek, was hard to find and wasn't great last year. This year they say the...

Yes, 4 years ago but I'm still pissed about it. I was called a "bad actor" by one of the mods who never apologized and shortly after resigned from that role. I know, get over it and life goes on. He's back as a mod again, and is back to heavy-handed, "shoot first ask questions later&...

I can't see any mention of air pumps on their website. It looks to me as if the MX-DS1 connects to the MX-500P which contains the pump. However, this is expensive equipment and you want to be completely certain before buying. I suggest you scroll down the Metcal home page to the section titled &quo...

Shame they went and used a pile driver on a fly. -Pat What's worse, as I understood it, it was done on the prompting of someone with about 40 posts - basically a passer-by. Anyway, that's been four years ago. Yes, 4 years ago but I'm still pissed about it. I was called a "bad actor" by on...

I don't know if you participated in the blog TEA thread or not. If you pull up that thread starting around 19 August 2022 you'll see very heavy handled moderation which IMHO was completely unjustified. As I recall the TEA thread was rambling and more or less a world on its own. DJ was pleased it ha...

Robert wrote: ↑Thu Jul 23, 2026 6:38 am AI goes rogue and launches cyber attack
It had to happen and OpenAI is the first
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3ek3gvdnj3o

At least it didn't find Cyberdyne Systems

Just because it didn't admit it/get caught...

I'm not familiar with DAB and I don't know what it stands for. I suppose Google will tell me but I'm lazy. :P I'm also not aware of any steps to eliminate VHF FM (88 - 108MHz) and there are still many stations across the band. Even AM broadcast isn't dead although many stations have gone silent ove...

Edited because the original source was deleted, fuckers

Splitting anything across multiple organisations encourages finger pointing and wasteful legal activities. The BBC is definitely under financial pressure now. Some would say it has been for 40 years. Oh absolutely; Thatcher started the squeeze, Major continued it, Bliar didn't really do much to rol...

This popped up in a thread in the other place. Haven't watched it yet myself, but there were plenty of (surprised) positive replies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PyGwQfdfmQ Some further information: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213158217301225 https://www.nature.com/artic...

With battery backup on my mind recently (planning a dual battery mod for my 3478A's, to enable safe hot-swapping), I decided to have a look at the 4503 schematic, to see if there's any possibility for improvements. There's a few oddities, or bad design choices, depending on your POV. The battery is...

Yeah that's from the early 1990's, earliest. It's for testing the integrity of the various circuits on the arm (position control, a couple of firing circuits for controlled detonation etc); you don't want to be in the middle of prodding at something only to have one of them not work. The LEDs are a...

BU508A wrote: ↑Wed May 06, 2026 2:49 pm It is the current that kills, not the voltage.

I guess it's time to link this video again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGD-oSwJv3E&t=10s