Test Equipment Anonymous

Specmaster wrote: ↑Sun Dec 15, 2024 12:35 pm Where would that watt hour meter have been designed / used for then at just 25Hz, I always thought the standard was for either 50 or 60Hz?

Niagara Falls?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_f ... Hz_origins

Manually operated knitting machines had manual row counters like such. My mother has one of those when I was a kid, but I don't remember her using it in anger. I remember playing with it an bit, but it seemed to require careful use to avoid dropping a stitch. ISTR learning to knit during a long bor...

BU508A wrote: ↑Sat Dec 14, 2024 8:26 am

tggzzz wrote: ↑Fri Dec 13, 2024 8:52 am

BU508A wrote: ↑Fri Dec 13, 2024 8:37 amxbox_xboxbox.jpeg

I don't know about Germany, but in the UK a traditional "joke" is that young kids spend longer playing with the box than the present.

Yes, it is the same here.

Mensch ist mensch - the whole world over

xbox_xboxbox.jpeg I don't know about Germany, but in the UK a traditional "joke" is that young kids spend longer playing with the box than the present. I had a colleague whose brother wanted a bike for Christmas when they were kids. The parents were hard up but made the effort to buy him ...

Do cartoon pictures count? According to one last minute present list... "We buy Exploding Kittens or Wreck this Journal for all the children we know. Exploding Kittens keeps my three kids (12, 10 and 7) entertained on train journeys, holidays and trips to the dentist. The game is reasonably sim...

BU508A wrote: ↑Fri Dec 13, 2024 8:37 amxbox_xboxbox.jpeg

I don't know about Germany, but in the UK a traditional "joke" is that young kids spend longer playing with the box than the present.

I don't think I can see any way to set that up other than width-wise which means working on anything on the far side of the plugin while it's seated in the extender is going to be difficult, particularly taking measurements from anything on that side while it's running and live. Not forgetting turn...

I wouldn't have that much patience with a flaking scale!

I like the concept of using an e-ink scale https://arnweb.nl/gitea/arne/EinkAnalog but I would prefer it if the e-ink display could have a cutout in it

Just popped up on my RSS feed. His blog has other interesting stuff. In the blog post, describe the procedures that I use to create screenshots of the test equipment that I personally own, so that don’t need to figure it out again when I use the device a year later. That doesn’t make it all that use...

This friendly hungry cat came around while I was cleaning the barbecue up the other night. ... This sweetheart of a cat wanted attention feeding. FTFY. People are often blind to other people's intentions, so it isn't surprising they misinterpret other species' intentions. My daughter's dog is remar...

nixiefreqq wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2024 12:47 pm others here disagree......but I have always really liked the look of those dot LEDs.

No disagreement here. The "font" on my HP5302A frequency meter is very readable.

I'd post a text description to the TekScopes group. If you aren't a member, send me the text and I'll post it.

Allergy testing is a known pig. Binary searching of dietary ingredients is not something that be easily fitted into a standard appointment :( That's a bit old school. Radioallergosorbent tests and fluorescence enzyme-labeled assays have been standard for quite some time now. One blood sample and yo...

Oh, I've occasionally tweaking those with a natural/alternative/etc bent. I start off by showing sympathy by noting that we should never forget that many "alternative medicine" remedies are indeed effective. I then put the knife in by pointing out that they are so important that they are ...

Oh, I've occasionally tweaking those with a natural/alternative/etc bent. I start off by showing sympathy by noting that we should never forget that many "alternative medicine" remedies are indeed effective. I then put the knife in by pointing out that they are so important that they are ...

Please don't use "alternative facts". It propels the ridiculous double-think ideology. To use an analogy, if alternative medicine worked it would be called medicine. It's lies and ignorance and nothing else. Seconded - with an exception if it is ".... 'alternative facts' (cf true fac...

Yeah, odd then that we have not managed to blow our current home apart then, so maybe we were the sensible grown-ups after all then? Oh, steady on there! Once a group reaches a certain size, a schism becomes ?exponentially?Arrhennius? more likely. Easily visible in churches, Californian hippy commu...

bd139 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 13, 2024 5:12 am On that note, I’m about to get on a plane, so if anything happens, it wasn’t me!

It sounds as if you think there's a non-zero chance you won't land in it - something that's happened to me on several occasions.

In the UK there's this https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/32/part/3/crossheading/public-nuisance There was a common law offence of public nuisance, which it replaces. There's also a tort of private nuisance under which a civil action could be pursued. Of course it would be best to go to the ...

Are there any local laws about excessive noise? I doubt there are any about excessive strobe lights :twisted: As for put-put devices, not much can beat hydraulic rams - and they are useful. :twisted: In the UK there's this https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/32/part/3/crossheading/public-nuis...

Are there any local laws about excessive noise? I doubt there are any about excessive strobe lights

As for put-put devices, not much can beat hydraulic rams - and they are useful.

Artbyrobot is indeed, um, a misguided twat (That's me being diplomatic). He is amusing for a short time (cf treez/etc), but becomes tiresome. His first thread was locked because of bothering one particular dog, so he instantly created another thread. I long ago marked that thread as "ignore&quo...

I've rarely seen it. Once was at a car boot sale where a woman was selling a piece of electronic kit. She had a sign saying "£15 - no offers", but she didn't know what it was. I explained it was a chromatone, a piece of early disco equipment. It splits music into three frequency bands and...

I'd probably do the same. Still if you had a serious use for it, and could reclaim the VAT, £750 with a guarantee and a calibration certificate is worth a thought. What does it cost to get a 6½ digit meter calibrated? I've had a quick look and calibration houses are a bit cagey about publishing the...

So, new arrival (talked about it in Discord, but that's only half of the introduction to the community.): - hp - 3478A Multimeter, my first real foray into "many digits". It was not very expensive, but not as cheap as I would have wanted. Contrary to the cautions made by the very decent s...