Test Equipment Anonymous

Telford is a bit far for me at 125 miles.
I've also just committed the entire TEA fund (teapot?) to a Best Offer on a bit of R&S kit so with luck won't have any funds....

Robert.

Greetings everyone, I'm a long time reader of this thread in its original place and have decided to type some words here. Southern UK people will likely know me from radio rallies where I've a tendency to buy the odd piece of equipment, with yesterday's rally yielding a "not working" HP 1...

Went to the Milton Keynes radio rally (Hamfest) today. It was (almost) a waste of time. There were not a lot of sellers and virtually no TE. The only just about TE Igot was a handful of Greenpar inter-series coaxial adaptors. The only other thihgs tha made it not a total failure were a couple of odd...

tautech wrote: ↑Mon Aug 14, 2023 9:28 am

Robert wrote: ↑Mon Aug 14, 2023 6:39 am Yep I'm in that photo

Never imagined you were the mo and glasses type.

No, That's Rod.
I'm just behind ans to one side. No not the blonde, the baldy.

Yep I'm in that photo

Well, yes; we all know how I feel aboot pants. I think putting them on voluntarily is a pretty big breakthrough for a tinkerdwagon... :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes: mnem https://teanonymous.com/f1/download/file.php?id=1505&mode=view Perhaps you'll find this interesting: https://www.guinnessworl...

No difference in the way phosphors are activated in CFLs compared to traditional fluoresent tubes. There may be differences in phosphor and even gas mix but that is true for both lamp types.
All fluorescents banned in EU and UK from next year....

Ooh don't like the stripboard. It can easilly arc across and breakdown. The SRPB bord is't the best insulator either.
A bit of bare GRP board materal and connections with just the resistor leads is better. A acrylic tube with them all in series is even better.

Robert.

Judging from the single multi-pin connector on the back it's missing a separate power supply unit.

The answer to this type of scan is that you never give a one time code to somone else by phone or email etc and never use one that wasn't generated by you doing something yourself without any direction form anyone else.

My latest meter arrived today. It is a sound level meter. A CEL 393. This is a early microprocessor controlled class 1 (high accuracy) meter. CEL393.jpg On ebay from a seller who obviously knew nothing about it. There are two versions of the meter that are visually identical not even a different par...

On the original battery replacement I just took my 20+ year old Breitling Aerospace watch in for battery replacement. It has to go back to Breitling. Got a call Wednesday saying the jewler had been contacted by Breitling saying that the movment was obsolete so they would have to replace it at a cost...

Pat beat me to the Bristol description. I'd gone to bed...
Used on avionics and some jukeboxes and to keep on topic, Collins TE.

Robert.

Don't get me started on tools for fastner heads. Male Hex: Metric (AF, BA) and Imperial (AF, BSW,BSF). Female Hex: Metric and Imperial. Other female: Pozidrive, Phillips, JIS, R+P, Spline (5 and 6 point), Torx, RIBE, Bristol. Plus security variations And because I do aircraft stuff you can add: tri-...

I paid £75 for my E8510A which while not Jammy Git is a pretty good buy.
I'll not be accessing it remotely. It will be nce to access the DMM and 'scope from any PC on my internal network though.

More TE incoming. I just bought a Agilent E8510A LAN GPIB gateway. So in theory I should be able to access my instruments anywhere.

25 CPS said "The 0.75A fuse in the top left of the cluster of the four did not look healthy at all and measured open. I don't know why the end caps turned colour but the fuse holder didn't. I had purchased a full set of fuses a while ago for this machine at Sayal but they only had minifuses so ...

Yes properly organised car meets with the site owners permission are common and not a issue. The problem is when lots of barely legal (at best) vehicles turn up un-announced and start making noise and smoke (burn-outs). This is fundamentally illegal. These people don't care about others. Note they g...

I've had another look at the Advance OFS-2B frequency referene. Thanks to Frequency I have a manual. It's clear the unit is not operting correctly even when fed a generated 200kHz signal. The AGC deos not seem to be working proprly. Unfortunatly the circuits in the manual do not match the unit I hav...

The transformer is the little toroid with 3 windings. Operation is odd. One winding seems to go to an oscillator on the mains side, one drives the main switch MOSFET gate and the third is feedbck from the DC side. I think the feedback saturates the core cutting the drive. I was able to dig out the f...

I picked up a bit of TE on Thursday. A HP 8920A communication test set. It was a Buy It Now on ebay. Only acouple of pictures of the front. "for spares or not working" with a note that the power supply was blown. Price was only £75. Collection only. No time to ask questions, I hit buy. I t...

AVGresponding beat me to it. My plug in hybrid has regenerative braking that operates when you lift off the throttle as well as when you press the brake pedal. The level of lift-off regenerative braking is driver selectable using paddles on the steering wheel. At the higher levels of regenerative br...

Almost certainly a custom made unit. The box is a Greeenpar modular one. Removing one screw, furthest from the longitudinal joint lines and the side connectors, should allow the cover to come off. You might have to loosen the other three slightly. Can't even guess function without a internal picture...

Update on the Pultra lathe. It's a bit of a hybrid. The tailstock from a earlier P type like the bed. The tailstock is lever operated and seized solid. "4 hours in penetrating fluid did not allow any movement by hand. A bit of heat from a hot air gun and some careful tapping with a soft block a...

The Pultra I got isn't as tidy as that one. I've fancied one (or a Schaublin) for years. Didn't think I'd get one for £40. I've already got a possible line on a cross slide. Looks like mine is a bit of a hybrid. It has an earlier bed probably a P type and a 1750 headstock. Not an issue, it was a fe...