Test Equipment Anonymous

I have a fair amount of HP branded TE, but nothing by Agilent or Keysight. I've no experience of their products. A year or so back there was a thread at The Other Place, where people were very pissed off with Keysight. The essence of it was that they were no longer interested in dealing with indivi...

Display of my Rohde & Schwarz UGZ: https://i.imgur.com/APEekVf.jpg https://i.imgur.com/8Uvnw05.jpg THOSE I've never seen in person. The closest I've come is the stacked lucite plate displays that I believe somewhat predated nixies, then were their contemporaries for a while used by companies li...

Given glass and voltages, I always wonder how they make this kind of thing finger safe Given there are hi-fi amplifiers with KT66s proudly on display, with 350V from a low impedance supply on the anodes, I don't see that the Nixie clock guys are sailing that close to the wind. Two wrongs don't make...

The 1st gen Flir One I bought for my iPhone basically paid for itself when I got a Fluke voltage calibrator at Apex Electronics in Sun Valley, CA about a decade ago. He quoted a price, and I asked if it worked. We plugged it in, and it had no display. He knocked about $150 off the price due to that,...

Are there many swapmeets you can reach through the year or is this the only one? I'm mostly familiar with the museum's, as I'm a volunteer there. We now have about six a year (next is in early December); when I first started going there in 2013/2014 there were two; spring and fall. I think there's ...

As usual I fell asleep at 0600 and got there well after it was over. My understanding is that there was something else going on - IIRC something with the Antique Wireless Association in NY that we weren't aware of when the swap was scheduled early in the year. It certainly was a perfect fall day! -Pat

tggzzz wrote: ↑Tue Oct 06, 2026 8:46 pm Even so, their stuff was in better condition than this https://www.ebay.com/itm/366708551569

They're on some seriously good stuff if they think someone's going to pay ANYTHING for that. WTF, was it used as a chock for an M1 Abrams?

-Pat

Thank you for that. I shall show SWMBO that things could be so much worse. But at least you have a cat in there, queen of all she surveys. Which is a lot. My bench has a shelf above it, stacked five high with DMMs, SMUs, etc, etc. An ex-colleague came round a week or two ago and was visibly taken a...

MED6753 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 01, 2026 9:29 pm Gee Pat, you need....ahem....more space.

Yes, I do!!

-Pat

Blondie sez my lab is a hoard. Mike, show her this picture of my living room, taken literally a few minutes ago. I bet she'll change her tune. Lack of a SWMBO can be a mixed blessing - my floor joists certainly don't like it! https://photos.smugmug.com/Electronics/Misc-test-equipment/i-wP6MRJd/0/LT...

Pull back on the stick and the houses get smaller. Keep pulling back on the stick and the houses get bigger again. Getting some sailplane time certainly helped clarify the whole pitch controls airspeed/power controls altitude concept. I too bought a copy of Langeweiche's book back in 1990 on the sug...

Can anyone use a roll of what I suspect is heat-sensitive printer paper? 210mm wide but about 6" diameter and in a thick black plastic bag. The lab now has a 600 x 1200 five shelf rack; a lot of floor has magically reappeared. (There are other racks, but they are all full.) The new rack is onl...

Yeah, I guess there are some that are a bit bigger... https://photos.smugmug.com/Electronics/HP-523C-Electronic-Counter/i-vFLhq9S/0/Kc5nXzmJdTGPb8s5LDX5CtmkQg5wsqhpQS35sXFH5/X3/2018070203340573-IMG_7777-X3.jpg https://photos.smugmug.com/Electronics/HP-524C-Electronic-Counter/i-svDGbkN/0/KFDztTJtRjkd...

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...

Ready, FIRE, aim...

-Pat

Pretty much any compressor would do. I'd also suggest that you look at the Thermaltronics DS-KIT-1. I'm not sure about availability over on the continent, but it's available here in the US from Amazon for US $315.00, making it over $100 less than the Metcal. The Thermaltronics guys are apparently ex...

Yeah, it was great fun. Shame they went and used a pile driver on a fly.

-Pat

... I recall the patter about how one had been stored and just needed circuit boards reseated, which begged the question of why he hadn't just reseated them... I love the clowns who say that. Or similarly, "It just needs a fuse." It's an immediate "nope" when I hear that, becaus...

Was it only me, or was it impossible to get into the forum over the last couple of days? No. Definitely not just you - I was getting bad gateway errors and refreshes were taking forever. I almost DM'd you on DIY Audio to see if you were seeing it too, but then decided to wait it out. It seems bette...

Adorable!! On another note, Schottky arrived here a year ago yesterday. https://photos.smugmug.com/Animals/2502-16-Felines/i-b77xzJx/0/KDX94FchKL42frhHM9whJKGFH6VF2Vw9HDBSVqjzT/X3/25_07-10%20Schottky%2006-X3.jpg https://photos.smugmug.com/Animals/2502-16-Felines/i-n57HnBh/0/KKdKr488MLL9LQQppqpd5jrQb...

A piece of good news and a miracle of sorts. After nearly 6 days Motley showed up. Apparently OK. Where he was is a mystery. I will keep further opinions of that whole situation to myself. :roll: I strongly suspect our opinions on this subject would be in line. That said, I'm very happy to hear tha...

Yesterday while at Blondie's daughter's picnic we learned that Motley, Harley's brother, hasn't been seen for 5 days. :shock: That's not a good sign at all and further angers me that they let their cats outside with those traffic conditions. I guess it's a miracle that Dually made it 5 years and Mo...

Very sorry to hear, Mike. Mine are strictly indoor because they're on the food chain here, cars would also be a potential issue. RIP, little guy. Hopefully Blondie's daughter reevaluates the outdoor cat thing for her others.



-Pat

Welcome back!

-Pat

Widlar was dropped off by my friend's wife a year ago today https://photos.smugmug.com/Animals/2601-18-Felines/i-5mkvcwK/0/KqdKs2tCjj6nJWjgFfJnh6TvKNphXT5DCFKt2PgNj/X3/26_06-24%20Widlar%2003-X3.jpg https://photos.smugmug.com/Animals/2601-18-Felines/i-j5rhqTb/0/L69c2FLND2JWVmww36nQJXgHf7nSQw8zGKHVKLT...