Test Equipment Anonymous

My condolences too. 17 years is a very long time for a cat....which makes the loss even more difficult.

Zenith wrote: ↑Sat Jan 10, 2026 3:13 pm Definitely a gremlin. I've heard you can remove them by placing the infested equipment in a pentagram with a goats fat candle at each point and making certain incantations. I haven't tried it myself.

Accompanied by a flame thrower.

Had to lookup "stilton". Never heard of it but if it's anything like other bleu cheeses I would probably like it.

I'm surprised it doesn't have a "tip" jar. Seems everyone today feels they are entitled to a tip for just doing their basic job.

Shit like this is why I order my groceries online and have them delivered. I prefer going to the shops and browsing for what is good/new/cheap. Searching online would mean I would stay with repeat purchases, and miss serendipity. Plus the they would also make stupid substitution for the item I real...

Zenith wrote: ↑Fri Jan 02, 2026 10:19 pm

MED6753 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 02, 2026 9:39 pm Shit like this is why I order my groceries online and have them delivered.

And tell me, are they delivered by the little bots tggzzz encountered?

Nope. Delivered by a nice lady driving a motor vehicle.

Shit like this is why I order my groceries online and have them delivered.

Tight round about and extra length buses. I fail to see the problem?

My needs are much simpler. Two AD584-M references and an hp 3456A that probably hasn't been calibrated this century.

Docs concluded she had early stage flu and started her on tamiflu. We finally got home at 5:30 PM last night. Today she is resting comfortably. Close call averted. Good. The last time was a damned close run thing. Last time is still very raw and even though she hates doctors and hospitals it was a ...

Almost had a repeat of this yesterday (Sunday).... https://teanonymous.com/f1/viewtopic.php?t=266 Blondie woke up Sunday morning with extreme chills and a low grade fever. Rather than take a chance as to what happen 2 years ago took her to an urgent care facility at our local hospital. The flu is ra...

Ouch, that sucks.

tggzzz wrote: ↑Sat Dec 27, 2025 2:26 pm Thaw freeze thaw freeze thaw is the usual state of affairs here. Doctors don't need to drum up business in that horrible weather

Correct. The flu is rampant this season.

Not as much as predicted but still significant. For a period the snow mixed with sleet which cut down on the total accumulation. Tomorrow evening the temperature is going to rise around freezing and a period of freezing rain which should make for a real nice slippery mess. https://imagizer.imageshac...

Cubdriver wrote: ↑Fri Dec 26, 2025 6:45 pm Been a while since one of these has hit!

Yea, at least 3 years if I recall correctly.

So far this season we've already had 4 small storms dropping an inch to 3 inches of snow. Then the following day the sun would come out with above freezing temps and melt it. But this looks like a big one.

But he doesn't look terribly happy about that hat. This morning, one of ours was convinced that my red berry and apple crumble was something she would like. I've offered it to her before and she knows it's not really kitty food, but if I'm eating it, it must be worth investigating. Harley always ha...

Why do cats do this? Want to be the center of attention I suppose. They walk across your laptop/keyboard while you're trying to type. Harley walked across the laptop and there was a crunch and the laptop stand, which tilts the laptop up for easier typing, snapped on one side. Didn't faze him in the ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NB8OtmX8yQ "Weaponized Autism Chris" is back, and he made this one just for us old fucks... :lol: mnem *another refugee from the "dustbin of history"* I don't even give seleniums a chance to release their toxic smoke. Any I find in equipment get ...

Just to prove that I'm alive and kicking, as Paul said, I've had a rather busy time of late with real life getting in the way of hobbies, hope to be back to normal soon and completing the items that I started posting about and never came back with updates etc. Good to hear from you. I've been deali...

For those who're wondering how he's doing, I pinged specmaster via e earlier tonight; just got a reply saying he's well and busy being dad-chauffeur, moderating on the NextDoor site, and generally being more active IRL. He did say he plans to pop in here and drop a little holiday cheer in the next ...

EC8010 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 10, 2025 7:58 pm Nice to see caps keeping the inside of BNCs clean.

My cat loves to steal them.

So the P11 485 joins my other 485 getting some power up burn-in time.

Completed the calibration of the channel 1 & 2 attenuators, vertical pre-amp, and vertical final amp as best I could with the equipment I have. Some adjustments require a tunnel diode pulser which I don't have. This is the 50 ohm input at 10MHz square. Slight improvement with a small amount of p...

That correspondence between Tek 485 and 2465 is impressive. In theory, we should expect them to be identical, but at 10ns/div., all bets are off. I wonder what is causing that slight "highish" frequency loss after the leading edge of the square wave in the 485? I think there is a 1MHz adj...