Test Equipment Anonymous

just a heads up for agilent 5462x fan boys. powered up my 54622d this morning and it was acting weird. when looking at the probe compensation output it showed a weird overshoot and when in "quick measurement" mode the peak to peak voltage shown was 2x or 4x what would have been indicated b...

Gee, when I got Harley snipped there was no cone and no pain meds. The vet said just to keep an eye on him and it's OK if he wants to lick himself in that area. When I got him home he was a bit wobbly in the legs and believe it or not he wanted to eat. So I fed him and later he zonked out. Next day...

sorry....forgot that according to the pictures in magazines, high tech electronic fabrication these days is done only by gray haired grannies or tiny Asian girls peering into microscopes.

my bad. carry on with your manly activities.

somehow I always expect you guys to show off your hybrid wafer and die wire bonding setups.

instead we see engine lathes and welders.

stone knives and bearskins.

but if you really want to set her off .....call camilla the new "queen" and stand back because she starts winding up like a gas turbine about to take off. Have you tried her with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, and his delightful semi-ex Fergie? You could spice the mix by pointing out that he...

hmmmmm.......coins with a queen on them. just out of curiosity........have coins been issued yet with an image of the king? (not trying to stir up anything.......just wondering). Interesting question; can't think how it would stir anything up! King Charles notes have been in circulation since June ...

hmmmmm.......coins with a queen on them.

just out of curiosity........have coins been issued yet with an image of the king?

(not trying to stir up anything.......just wondering).

cowabunga!

last month they sent a kid out to install my new fiber network interface. he commented on the stacks of nixie counters in the basement and mentioned that he had seen one in the Oppenheimer movie. so we went down stairs and played with a couple. it was like watching Indiana Jones finding lost ancient...

what would compel you to replace it with that "thing"? I'd guess it caught his eye as a bit of junk to play with, as a diversion from the other things that crowd his hours. I get that. am guilty myself of spending months in search of a fault. then when restored to its original function yo...

didn't you used to be the proud owner of an hp 5334b? what would compel you to replace it with that "thing"? we know you prefer counters without fans........but geeeeeze. in future consult with a time nut before giving in to an impulse that leads to this kind of shameful situation. ps it i...

oh...got it now.....red-green

good post!

but you need to explain why volts are better in blue.

well ok. hp made a tdr.......but they couldn't have sold many. have you ever heard of anyone using one? it figures that cub would have one! the military bought boat loads of the 1502/3 units. when the local wire chief at ft swampy or camp nowhere would take us around to perform site surveys it was n...

tek 1502 with crt.

never saw one actually used in the rain. did see one used at Ft Benning to find an aerial splice case that had been replaced with a trash bag, and as a result was full of rainwater. (around 1986, right after outside plant maintenance was contracted out).

my fortress of solitude has been purged of all tek equipment. your dalliance with cora fendley will not tempt me to go looking for a 485.....(but damn, that is a nice looking scope). am looking forward to seeing pictures with blue traces. ps oh crap......my statement about the purge was disingenuous...

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...

well ok....like the man said "different countries, different customs"


https://clip.cafe/the-man-who-would-be- ... take-pick/

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 sy...

just got back from shopping.

my outbox is clear and your reply was in my inbox time stamped 0906.

tried to send you a PM.

it also appears to be stuck in my outbox.

hey. even my old 54601a does an fft.


https://www.hpmemoryproject.org/an/pdf/hp54600_fft.pdf


edit ok...it was purchased maybe 6 or 7 years ago, but it was only 75 bucks.

sure, a spectrum analyzer would be a lot cooler. but 75 bucks and it will measure distortion. (that's a win).

suggesting that med acquire a distortion analyzer is........just plain mean. it might cause him to go off searching for an hp334. (DON'T DO THAT!) maybe he has a scope with an fft function? my hp54622 will measure distortion with an fft. not being a tek guy i don't know for sure, but they must have ...

100 miles vs. 100 years. My house in 95 years old. My parents house was 170 years old. Then we get to old houses. I enjoy walking down streets 2000 years old, and sitting on rocks placed in a circle by people completely forgotten to time who spoke in an unknown (and forevermore unkowable) language....

holy crap med......are you hearing the pissing and moaning from these brits about driving a couple of hours? to recover a crusty smelly tek scope med drove 5 hours to my house......went over and toured the Gettysburg battlefield....and then turned and burned for home. and he seemed to enjoy being ou...