Test Equipment Anonymous

Pedant alert!
As you got the deoxit into them the pots are clearly not "completely sealed". Fully enclosed with no access maybe.

Robert.

You are welcome

eBay-666.png So I went to see if I could leverage my eBay account for cheaper shipping on a large box I have going out, and look what I just noticed... mnem Dumber than advertised. Look what I found when searching for your listings www.ebay.com/itm/204229182200? mnementh.jpg Not quite a dragon but ...

There are scopemeters and there are scopemeters.The original Phillips models are OK (screens are poor by modern standards). So are the Fluke 199C onwards. I presume you are refering to the 123 scopemeters which would be beter named Meterscopes.

Oh and BT had their own version of the 8021 complete with odd sockets that don't take standard leads

YOU GUYS ALL MISSED THE POINT! there is only one criteria for choosing any one meter over all others. if you are in the fortress of solitude and a large rodent runs across your neat and tidy bench.......which meter will kill it in one shot? we all know the answer to this question. Yes, but it is th...

I paid list for my pre-release 87 when I worked for Philips Lighting. Over the course of 6 paychecks, yes, but I still paid it because after using it for a month as my issued meter, I wanted to keep it that much. It was my daily driver and first at hand; whatever the gig, when it was set up on my b...

Fluke DMMs?
8010A
8022A
8022B
8060A Four of these, my favorite.
8845A
8920A
8922A
89IV
99 'ScopeMeter
25 x Two
10
11
16
Plus a few spares units.
I make that 17
Then there are HT probes, shunts, current clamps, differential voltmeter....

At least that is just a matter of judgement. I see many items of TE listed as tesed and working dispite having obvious serious defects in the photos, missing critical separate parts or accessories (often matched to a specific instrument). There are also the items listed as tested when it is clear fr...

Very interesting comparision.
The tinysa is better than nothing and very handy but clearly poor performance compared to a very old real spectrum analyser. Very poor local oscillator performance is evident from distortion of levels close in to signal.

Robert.

Yes you can, I said this on the original thread Hi, No specfic restrictions on carrying capacitors on passenger aircraft. However it is an unusual case and supercapacitors did not exist when most regulations were written. The energy limit for batteries is 100 Wh or 360 kJ. A 310 F 2.7 V capacitor is...

Bought something at the last Ramco auction. Not TE, a 19" rack mount radio receiver. Yet again poor packing by Ramco and poor handing by Parcel Force resulted in a bent side frame and bowed front panel. Fortunatly it works and chassis is "bolt together" folded light alloy sheet so I c...

OLYMPUS CELL LAS/561/50 DIGITAL LASER SYSTEM. This powers on fine as we do not have the correct facilities to test further. NO KEY https://media.tenor.com/V-OzW7BH9eEAAAAC/bs-bull-shit.gif How, exactly, did any of these trained apes without the training test to "Power On" without keys? ht...

Nothing wrong with making a big profit, I do that when I can But I at least wait until I've received the item and tested it before advertising it and I don't use other peoples photos (whiich may be illegal)

Quick game of "spot the difference" www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Olympus-CELL-Digital-laser-system-LAS-561-50-/354495754439? and www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255918041132? The seller has done the same thing with items from RAMCO using their pictures and listing the item before they could possibly have receive...

Just a scratch that. Apart from the left index finger tip that dropped off, I've also managed to amputate the end of my right little finger, through the bone, and crush the 3rd finger bursting it like a ripe banana. And to make iti nteresting it was in the middle of the Jordanian desert 200 miles fr...

I did a "change your own dressing" once and the end of my finger came of with it That was caused by the inapproriate use of a local anaesthetic with adrenaline on an extremity.

The "Nano VNA" things are interesting but are pretty limited particuarly the cheaper ones. When they say to use a 10dB attenuator on each port to isolate the mismatch (the ports are not 50R) it makes me worry. Their dynamic range is low enough without knocking 20dB off before you start. If...

I've been thinking about getting a NewScope LCD replacementfor the CRT display in my HP 8753B VNA. The NewScope upgrades it to colour, less power weight and heat. Unfortunatly the required model (9) is not currently available due to supply shortages. Looks like it uses a Xilnix Spartan 6 FPGA. Farne...

They say the NHS is safe in their hands, well I have my doubts, the public message about the 111 service is certainly a lie, that they can get you sorted in as little 90 seconds, look at this video taken today, the 931221 on the screen is the answers to 6 short recorded questions posed to you, I wa...

Hey Rob, this is for you.... 2022-12-25 23_53_47-Window.jpg My first Pico! 6403D. Quick one... why they put the "tuned probe TA150" in the label, can't I just use the 10:1 probe I want? Sure I will compensate them.... Ohh, very nice. Better bandwidth than any of my picoscopes. The "t...

I never ONCE said they were a good idea... only that they are everywhere, and that NiCd is NOT dead; it's just lying low in craptastic products like these. If you guys in the UK really have gotten rid of them, it's only relatively recently, and "GOOD FOR YOU!". And I'll bet more than a fe...

Except they are not being discouraged. As I said, they have enjoyed quite a resurgence of late in just this niche market. Whether we like the idea or not, they are all over the place out in the wild, and are not going away any time soon. :man_shrugging: And I'd bet you a buck-converter that "s...

Latest aquisition arrived today. a Multimetter [sic} Televes-multimetter.jpg It's actually a TV test box including analog and digital receiver covering up to 2GHz and a spectrum analyser . Cost was £9.99. It has a tiny colour screen that can also display external composie video. I need to find a SCA...

More expensive lights like you're talking aboot, I'm sure they can afford a proper Δ-peak charge circuit for NiMH. But everybody, even Wally World, sells a dozen different versions of these Chinesium walkway lights, etc that all use the very basic charge & Dawn/Dusk circuit found in these POS o...