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The parks will be full of semi-naked Poms working on their melanoma! Heatwave for the Poms seem now sent to the Yanks in NY where 34C is forecast......nothing special, just a good old warm day in Perth. Mid-winter, we note :) Even so, being next to the sea moderates the extremes compared with, say ...

What is the UK meaning of "pants"? Pants as in a wearable item or panting such as breathing heavy? Wearable item. With the exception of Superman (who is famously sartorially confused), walking down a street wearing only pants can be grounds for being arrested. The parks will be full of se...

Yes, it appears that Elon and Donald have had a falling out. Like who ever thought that wasn't gunna happen ? Will T'rump and his BFF Putin fall out? Will T'rump notice that Putin is stringing him along? What happens then? Does that mean Putin has a deadline for reconnecting Kaliningrad to mainland...

The last time there was any sort of fight in our Congress/Senate was 1902 when one senator punched another. Given the ranker and bad blood with our current elected officials I think they are well overdue for a full on donnybrook. :lol: Hasn't it already started, in the same way WW3 has started? Yes...

yep....protest is sometimes necessary and good. but if you do the crime you have to be willing to do the time. 3 weeks without pay is hardly cruel and unusual punishment. but it's enough to make a point about proper behavior. and in fact the offenders are probably happy because it keeps them on the...

hey tautech just watched a news video about nz politics. apparently you guys settle disagreements with some kind of dance where the participants make startling faces and wave their arms while singing and dancing. is that real......or was I fooled by some kind of ai generated fake? not saying your s...

Electronic and mechanical music clips from 8 yrs ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M5ao1D4jWo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UesaCcfI_8

Just nuts, this guy has too much spare time.......

Trump doesn't understand anything beyond the tip of his own penis. :roll: mnem Again, on behalf of all sane Americans ... I'm sorry. :oops: Mrs tautech is neither American or sane and thinks the suns shines outta Donald whereas her better other thinks entirely opposite. That bull in a china shop ha...

hey tautech just watched a news video about nz politics. apparently you guys settle disagreements with some kind of dance where the participants make startling faces and wave their arms while singing and dancing. is that real......or was I fooled by some kind of ai generated fake? not saying your s...

Cubdriver wrote: ↑Tue May 20, 2025 1:50 am

Got my own CAT scan the other day and been called back for another.....
This getting older is a real bitch.....

Don't deliberately confuse that case with the inexperienced and impecunious amateur use case, where the tradeoffs can be very different. Certainly not, I was one but as experience grew I ditched the old stuff in favor of something I could trust to still operate when required. Still an amateur but n...

I have several Flukes here. 8600A, 8010A, 8050A, 8800A and they all perform well. In addition to hand helded 8021B, 8060A, and 87. The 8000A is the only dud . Yup, all brands have their dog models ..... All well in your part of the world Mike ? All's well here Rob as we move into warm weather. How'...

Based on this thread, shouldn't we declare Fluke products as a crap shoot..... Gimme a mo to grab my hat and coat.... I have several Flukes here. 8600A, 8010A, 8050A, 8800A and they all perform well. In addition to hand helded 8021B, 8060A, and 87. The 8000A is the only dud . Yup, all brands have t...

Based on this thread, shouldn't we declare Fluke products as a crap shoot..... Gimme a mo to grab my hat and coat.... We are talking about bench DMMs about 50 years old , which were probably designed with a design life of maybe 10 years in mind. Then they sold for $$$s painful and now are bought fo...

Based on this thread, shouldn't we declare Fluke products as a crap shoot.....
Gimme a mo to grab my hat and coat....

Med doesn't seem to have used it on his scope in the years he's had it. IMO it's been his sanity check when fixing stuff although he prefers to use a CRO. There's no doubt he got it for its advanced features of which it has few other than being a capture tool....it's a 15yr old design comparable wi...

That's the point about that scope's FFT: it is not sufficient to be useful. That may have once been the case and for the old SDS1052DL Mike has I would agree due to its very limited feature set. 1 MHz 0dBm via a 50 Ohm feedthrough into SDS814X HD Notice how many cycles provide far better FFT's. Scr...

I suppose this is much more meaningful? https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/924/CBdt7o.jpg To a point.... move the trigger level well within the waveform amplitude, pressing the level encoder will autoset it to 50%. Then you could go to a FFT exclusive display and examine the menu for axis scal...

OK gang, here it is. I have really no clue what it all means. Comments welcome. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/923/pI9ECK.jpg You require a slower timebase setting on Siglent DSO’s when doing FFT. Experiment with 50 or more cycles on the display. If required I’ll pull out a DL when home in...

There's The Roundhouse in Fremantle. https://emmajaneexplores.com/visiting-fremantle-round-house/ It was built as a prison in the 1830s, but it was used for storage later on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOIpzSQq_Wk The Youtube video is only four minutes long. It gives good views of the courtyar...

The 635HV is another I'd never heard of - just looked it up - wow, 6 kV! Are the HV ranges just additional voltage dividers that you plug into and select a lower voltage range using the selector knob, or? (It's not obvious from looking at the pics I found online.) I do have a Simpson 269, but need ...

Cubdriver wrote: ↑Thu Apr 03, 2025 3:18 pm Buuuug!!!

Equals additional protein.

And the date is..... March 31st :) https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1677-an-interesting-effect-with-fuses-(experiment)/msg5866735/#msg5866735 Not in OZ. They are first for the new year too... Nope, we Kiwi's beat them to midnight by 2 hours minimum. Perth in WA is a further 2 hrs behind NZ.

Smithsonian should I ever hang up the hat to have the time to go to the US for a week or 3.....probably would hunt out Mike and Paul while there too....

Mike, darn it, it's not like you to throw in the towel !

Are the actives socketed ?
Do you have a transistor tester ?