Test Equipment Anonymous

Arriving early part of next week, something that has been eluding me at the right price for years. This beauty will take boards upto 240 mm long and a tad over 100 mm in depth, 3.2 litres in fluid capacity, just what I needed when I did that Black Star 4503 bench meter with that very high impedance ...

Civilisation comes in waves I suspect. People who lived through wars tell stories. Eventually they wear off and new people demand more wars. —— And now for something completely different… or not. Another civilisation failure. Just spent the day wandering around here … IMG_3837.jpeg Pray, do tell, w...

have never seen strings like that. (maybe I just need to get out more?) was unable to open the link. are they molded directly on to the wires? (no sockets? can you replace dead ones?) are they just white? are they purpose made for indoor tree lighting or can you use them outside in the weather? are...

IMG_1054.jpeg Whew... and with that, all remaining evidence of our own Hogswatch Festivities have been safely stowed away in the attic for another year, and our little hovel in Old New Ank can finally return to its normal state of abnormal... mnem *casts a worried eye about, still looking for that ...

My 50" LG is flipping heavy, I would not be too happy about wall mounting it on a stud board wall that's for sure.

MED6753 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 16, 2024 11:03 pm It's +15V coming in from the mainframe at pin 18. The +5V is the error. It should read +15V.

Thats what I was saying, but kind of badly

Finally got some time to troubleshoot this plug-in. The defect with this plug-in was staring me right in the face. The Main Triggering Mode/Coupling/Source switches are supposed to light up. DS1 and DS3 on attached schematic. Verified that there's no +5V to the lamps. So in the process of tracking ...

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/800x600q70/924/2UHslt.jpg This Sangamo Type F portable watt hour meter was the main item I was interested in though. It'll count up to 20 kWh. It's limited to 5 Amps though so that limits what kind of device testing you can do with it. Higher powered appliances li...

How about a seasonal cat picture?

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MED6753 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 05, 2024 12:43 am

Specmaster wrote: ↑Wed Dec 04, 2024 9:50 pm Seasonal cat picture.

cat and tree.jpg

Ain't that the truth. Harley has already broken several.

Arh, yes, but he's still a young kitten at heart, give him a couple of years and that will be a thing of the past.

Seasonal cat picture.

I think that Ginger would have a bit of a problem with a TV these days.

I was just over on "the other place"----No, not the Australian Senate Chamber, but EEVBlog. In their "Projects" section, there is a seriously weird guy called "artbyrobot" , who purports to be building a humanoid robot. His methods are very unlikely to be successful, h...

OK gang, I opened up the assembly and I found the problem. And my hunch was totally correct. As proof, the unit on the bench and measuring the 9MEG resistor. NFG. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/923/zsm4Gm.jpg I opened it up with a dremel. That large resistor clearly says 9MEG/0.1%. https:/...

Ha! See post by me at top of previous page involving PS Waverley :) I think that was what prompted me to post. That reminds me of a test equipment enthusiast who vanished some years ago, possibly now deceased. He was known as Archivist on IRC and he had a self-hosted website cataloguing his collect...

From what I know of the Soviet defence sector, the persistence of the things is because they had regulatory requirement to be able to be self-sufficient as a nation and they had a lot of stock left lying around. On top of that the cost was much lower than newer technology. Suitable meme cJpvQY1.jpe...

Just did my 7150 a couple of weeks back. I bought a new filter from Mouser which was fine. They sell new ones. Yes they aren't short of £30 but it's that or burn the house down so I figured it was a good trade off. I did use the genuine correct HP LED parts, which are still sold by Broadcom now (!)...

Cerebus wrote: ↑Thu Aug 15, 2024 11:13 pm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clink

I used to have an office just the other side of the river, in Queen Street but never found the time to visit the Clink, shame.

The Russians captured the low-end functional market for several types of items in that era, because the stuff was cheap and solid. Anybody remember Zenit SLR cameras? Yes, I do, I had one for many years (it was a Dixons Prinz badged one, poorly done, a plastic badge stuck over the Zenit logo, but i...

So bored and drunk after an extremely profitable couple of days "digging people out of the shit thanks to Crowdstrike" This is interesting, a bit over my head to sort it out, but if this what he is saying is correct, then once you know what to look for then it should be easy to resolve. I...

So bored and drunk after an extremely profitable couple of days "digging people out of the shit thanks to Crowdstrike" This is interesting, a bit over my head to sort it out, but if this what he is saying is correct, then once you know what to look for then it should be easy to resolve. h...

Not even surprised. The keyboards I kill least are the chiclet ones which are low travel. Both the Cherry SX and Apple Magic keyboards seem to last the longest (12-18 months each). I usually kill the switches not the keytops though. If they are cherry switches, then you can get replacement switches...

I am much more worried aboot a watch being exposed to dwagon-sweat than I am a little mostly-inert water while swimming or showering. mnem stainless steel... often isn't. True, dwagon-sweat and normal sweat is salty. Stainless Steel as in Citizen watches most certainly is stainless steel unless it'...

Not even surprised. The keyboards I kill least are the chiclet ones which are low travel. Both the Cherry SX and Apple Magic keyboards seem to last the longest (12-18 months each). I usually kill the switches not the keytops though. If they are cherry switches, then you can get replacement switches...