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- Sat Jan 11, 2025 10:48 pm
- Forum: Test Equipment
- Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
Civilisation comes in waves I suspect. People who lived through wars tell stories. Eventually they wear off and new people demand more wars. Civilisations rot from within. A classic warning sign is when an unnecessarily high proportion of the total wealth is held in too few hands, and too many peop...
- Fri Jan 10, 2025 8:10 pm
- Forum: Test Equipment
- Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
- Replies: 3402
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
History doesn't repeat itself, but does rhyme. I can't remember which TV/film it was, but a doctor was testing an elderly patient for dementia. One of the questions was "when did WW2 start?" . The patient said 1919. After a pregnant pause she added "Because of the treaty of Versaille&...
- Thu Jan 09, 2025 4:41 pm
- Forum: Test Equipment
- Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
- Replies: 3402
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
I'd buy black Christmas lights :lol: They are difficult to find in the shops, but I'll sell you my spare set for £50. :roll: I expect hipsters will have a kickstarter for a half-hearted gray version in 2025 Beige is the new grey which was the new beige which was an improvement of the previous brown...
- Thu Jan 09, 2025 10:47 am
- Forum: Test Equipment
- Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
- Replies: 3402
- Views: 1205603
- Thu Jan 09, 2025 9:31 am
- Forum: Test Equipment
- Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
- Replies: 3402
- Views: 1205603
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
but what if you need more than 16 million colors? don't we all need 20 to 30 million colors in our holiday display? Wasted on 8% of men and 0.1% of women. Besides, who wants almost-but-not-quite black lights outside a house :) (Unless you are designing a black control panel front door bell illumina...
- Wed Jan 08, 2025 9:49 pm
- Forum: Test Equipment
- Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
- Replies: 3402
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
Plus it means we don't have to accumulate and store a very boring collection of shit single use PSUs.
- Sat Jan 04, 2025 1:33 pm
- Forum: Test Equipment
- Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
- Replies: 3402
- Views: 1205603
- Thu Jan 02, 2025 5:53 pm
- Forum: Test Equipment
- Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
- Replies: 3402
- Views: 1205603
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
... which is all rational, and therefore is orthogonal to the audiophile market 
Hells teeth, I long long ago heard the comment that if a luxury item isn't selling, take it off the market and put it back on the market at twice the price.

Hells teeth, I long long ago heard the comment that if a luxury item isn't selling, take it off the market and put it back on the market at twice the price.
- Wed Jan 01, 2025 3:23 pm
- Forum: Test Equipment
- Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
- Replies: 3402
- Views: 1205603
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
Relist it, but mark it as "rare, valve/tube, audiophile" - with an increased price, of course.AVGresponding wrote: ↑Wed Jan 01, 2025 2:09 pm I'm selling/have been trying to sell an Aerialite TV signal booster.
- Wed Jan 01, 2025 11:14 am
- Forum: Test Equipment
- Topic: Happy New Year!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2120
Re: Happy New Year!
Perhaps a good generic T-shirt slogan or Christmas Card slogan might be along the lines of "Hope you can reverse entropy in 2025".
- Sun Dec 15, 2024 3:26 pm
- Forum: Test Equipment
- Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
- Replies: 3402
- Views: 1205603
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
Niagara Falls?Specmaster wrote: ↑Sun Dec 15, 2024 12:35 pm Where would that watt hour meter have been designed / used for then at just 25Hz, I always thought the standard was for either 50 or 60Hz?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_f ... Hz_origins
- Sun Dec 15, 2024 9:04 am
- Forum: Test Equipment
- Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
- Replies: 3402
- Views: 1205603
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
Manually operated knitting machines had manual row counters like such. My mother has one of those when I was a kid, but I don't remember her using it in anger. I remember playing with it an bit, but it seemed to require careful use to avoid dropping a stitch. ISTR learning to knit during a long bor...
- Sat Dec 14, 2024 9:31 am
- Forum: Test Equipment
- Topic: Post a picture of a cat
- Replies: 201
- Views: 89515
Re: Post a picture of a cat
Mensch ist mensch - the whole world over

- Fri Dec 13, 2024 1:06 pm
- Forum: Test Equipment
- Topic: Post a picture of a cat
- Replies: 201
- Views: 89515
Re: Post a picture of a cat
xbox_xboxbox.jpeg I don't know about Germany, but in the UK a traditional "joke" is that young kids spend longer playing with the box than the present. I had a colleague whose brother wanted a bike for Christmas when they were kids. The parents were hard up but made the effort to buy him ...
- Fri Dec 13, 2024 9:10 am
- Forum: Test Equipment
- Topic: Post a picture of a cat
- Replies: 201
- Views: 89515
Re: Post a picture of a cat
Do cartoon pictures count? According to one last minute present list... "We buy Exploding Kittens or Wreck this Journal for all the children we know. Exploding Kittens keeps my three kids (12, 10 and 7) entertained on train journeys, holidays and trips to the dentist. The game is reasonably sim...
- Fri Dec 13, 2024 8:52 am
- Forum: Test Equipment
- Topic: Post a picture of a cat
- Replies: 201
- Views: 89515
- Mon Dec 02, 2024 9:29 am
- Forum: Test Equipment
- Topic: Tek 7B92 Plug-in Repair
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9068
Re: Tek 7B92 Plug-in Repair
I don't think I can see any way to set that up other than width-wise which means working on anything on the far side of the plugin while it's seated in the extender is going to be difficult, particularly taking measurements from anything on that side while it's running and live. Not forgetting turn...
- Sat Nov 30, 2024 4:14 pm
- Forum: Test Equipment
- Topic: HP 427A
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4110
Re: HP 427A
I wouldn't have that much patience with a flaking scale!
I like the concept of using an e-ink scale https://arnweb.nl/gitea/arne/EinkAnalog but I would prefer it if the e-ink display could have a cutout in it
I like the concept of using an e-ink scale https://arnweb.nl/gitea/arne/EinkAnalog but I would prefer it if the e-ink display could have a cutout in it
- Sat Nov 30, 2024 11:42 am
- Forum: Test Equipment
- Topic: Making Screenshots of Test Equipment Old and New
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2010
Making Screenshots of Test Equipment Old and New
Just popped up on my RSS feed. His blog has other interesting stuff. In the blog post, describe the procedures that I use to create screenshots of the test equipment that I personally own, so that don’t need to figure it out again when I use the device a year later. That doesn’t make it all that use...
- Sat Nov 30, 2024 8:49 am
- Forum: Test Equipment
- Topic: Post a picture of a cat
- Replies: 201
- Views: 89515
Re: Post a picture of a cat
This friendly hungry cat came around while I was cleaning the barbecue up the other night. ... This sweetheart of a cat wanted attention feeding. FTFY. People are often blind to other people's intentions, so it isn't surprising they misinterpret other species' intentions. My daughter's dog is remar...
- Tue Nov 26, 2024 1:13 pm
- Forum: Test Equipment
- Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
- Replies: 3402
- Views: 1205603
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
No disagreement here. The "font" on my HP5302A frequency meter is very readable.nixiefreqq wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2024 12:47 pm others here disagree......but I have always really liked the look of those dot LEDs.

- Sat Nov 23, 2024 3:39 pm
- Forum: Test Equipment
- Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
- Replies: 3402
- Views: 1205603
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
I'd post a text description to the TekScopes group. If you aren't a member, send me the text and I'll post it.
- Mon Nov 18, 2024 10:36 pm
- Forum: Test Equipment
- Topic: Interesting findings on the internet
- Replies: 852
- Views: 264318
Re: Interesting findings on the internet
Allergy testing is a known pig. Binary searching of dietary ingredients is not something that be easily fitted into a standard appointment :( That's a bit old school. Radioallergosorbent tests and fluorescence enzyme-labeled assays have been standard for quite some time now. One blood sample and yo...
- Mon Nov 18, 2024 9:35 am
- Forum: Test Equipment
- Topic: Interesting findings on the internet
- Replies: 852
- Views: 264318
Re: Interesting findings on the internet
Oh, I've occasionally tweaking those with a natural/alternative/etc bent. I start off by showing sympathy by noting that we should never forget that many "alternative medicine" remedies are indeed effective. I then put the knife in by pointing out that they are so important that they are ...
- Sun Nov 17, 2024 7:53 pm
- Forum: Test Equipment
- Topic: Interesting findings on the internet
- Replies: 852
- Views: 264318
Re: Interesting findings on the internet
Oh, I've occasionally tweaking those with a natural/alternative/etc bent. I start off by showing sympathy by noting that we should never forget that many "alternative medicine" remedies are indeed effective. I then put the knife in by pointing out that they are so important that they are ...