Test Equipment Anonymous

Take treasures to sell at the swapmeet. After all, if you don't have duplicates, you aren't trying hard enough :twisted: With luck and discipline you should have a smaller load on the way back. ( And if anyone mentions VNAs, I will go into a corner and sulk ) Go into sulky mode, I have 2 ! A 3.2 GH...

One of these years I'll cross paths with you at a swap meet, though with my nocturnal inclinations I usually arrive closer to or after the end than the beginning. This is probably a good thing as I have far too much stuff already and really shouldn't be bringing more wayward test gear home... Take ...

The falls and rise of IC and component exports per country since 1980.

Some modern scopes, including a few Siglent models, have a built-in AWG as an option. They are not the last word in AWGs, but they are good enough for most things and save bench room. Yup and owned a good few of them at one time or another but don't care much for the limited drive and mediocre feat...

Yup 16bit AWG's are common now and produce somewhat cleaner waveforms than earlier stuff but only to 500 MHz where anything beyond that gets stupid expensive. SDG1000X was the goto in cheaper stuff with a fast 4ns edge but only 14bit and 60 MHz tops. Now a Plus version is available with a 25 MHz ver...

These days most of the SDG models can do as much and lots more. You wicked salesman you. These things have a savage grandeur entire unto itself. Well sort of. But for £15, it's a bit of fun. 100% These Philips units do provide double pulses which is what's required for a time mark generator but an ...

............... Nothing that an AWG couldn't manage. Exactly. Back in their day they were the ducks nuts and I used to borrow a buddy's 100 MHz PM5771 for checking the CRO's I fixed back then and flicked. These days most of the SDG models can do as much and lots more. Some links: https://www.sglabs...

Great sleuthing Sherlock !

Hard to beat sitting behind your pilot daughter on A320 flight deck watching her takeoff and landing in another city.
Properly proud dad.....

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...