Test Equipment Anonymous

It always confuses me to hear these guys who have systems that are so close to perfection then say they changed something and 'it opens up the music in ways I never heard before’. WTF? Either your system is so close to perfect that there’s almost no improvement left to be had, or you’re delusional....

Those are ECC86/6GM8 which I'm sure the phools lust after. Oddly all the 6DJ8's in this scope are GE branded and USA made so they have almost no appeal to the phools. But it does have a somewhat uncommon ECC82/12AU7 Bugle Boy which could bring big bucks. Might be tempting to put them up for sale at...

MED6753 wrote: ↑Sun Oct 15, 2023 10:55 am Decision made. Picking it up later today. Stay tuned for pictures.

That content is, according to Shannon, information free. After all, it contains zero unpredictable "surprises".

You've clearly been inspired by this old cartoon... https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZT5XJHDmWec/Tz2RhRCd3zI/AAAAAAAABS8/nWxyTJRcmrc/s1600/dead_cat_005.jpg Plenty more where that came from, 101 to be precise - with a sequel of another 101 because the first 101 were so popular. And there's the widely known...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/256253701590
Fluke 8022B for £14, 200ohms doesn't work.

Robert wrote: ↑Wed Oct 11, 2023 4:46 pm Displaytube rapist and TE destroyer in UK trying to sell of kit he hasn't wrecked yet:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/115939571612?
Even then he is cheating by listing the collection at a silly price and then offering individual items for collection...

Wonder what he would ask/get at a hamfest

Cubdriver wrote: ↑Wed Oct 11, 2023 5:11 am

Reddwarf3r wrote: ↑Wed Oct 11, 2023 3:46 am Helpful little blighters aren't they.

Eminently so!

What's Tek's recommended procedure for removing cat hairs from their scope's attenuator's finger switches?

Meereen! Naturally I would be happy to go and support you in this rash and desperate action, but I've noticed that I have to take my library books back. Go loaded for bear. Since the talk is of cats, the howdah pistol was the last resort on tiger hunts, as the enraged tiger was clawing its way up t...

Seen lots of cats today, some mangy.

Started off the day by walking 50 yards to the fishmarket, followed by breakfast of a freshly filleted fish (still with rigor mortis) fried in butter and freshly cooked shrimp stock.

Later will visit the dragons' home in Meereen.

Everybody needs a 485 for its 50ohm input. Helps if the user can do mental arithmetic, rather than relying on cursor readout :) I happen to prefer my 2465CTS with 50Ω input and cursors with readouts, including a frequency counter... :D I think you'll find it is 50ohm//20pF => the usual crap VSWR. T...

Picked that one up a few months ago; haven’t yet gone through it other than to turn it on and confirm it at least partially works, as seen there. Seems that at a minimum the trace mode switches are going to need some cleaning. When working they are delightful, and have the main position on my bench...

Quite. Everybody needs a 485 for its 50ohm input. Helps if the user can do mental arithmetic, rather than relying on cursor readout :) Extra points if you snag one with P-11 phosphor. https://photos.smugmug.com/Electronics/Tektronix-485-Oscilloscope-/i-xNXL43R/0/8e49792c/XL/B486B204-FEF5-45B6-9DE4-...

Thanks for the offer. I'm contemplating what to do at the moment and will let you know. The outcome is one of: 1) Go argh and wonder why I bought another 465B 2) Accept your gracious offer 3) Buy all the 465B's that come up on eBay and surround myself with a wall of scopes. Go with choice three, bu...

It doesn't sweep or trigger properly though. One for the next round! That sounds very familiar :) See some of my other posts! Yes it does indeed. I will bear them in mind if I get stuck but I like going into problems with zero assumptions as the indication of this thread is that mine were wrong! :l...

bd139 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 28, 2023 11:26 am It doesn't sweep or trigger properly though. One for the next round!

That sounds very familiar See some of my other posts!

Excellent.

Where can I get the "HAL-9000" or "Marvin the paranoid android" personalities? (Obviously farcebook already has too many "Parry" personalities)

"Meta announces AI chatbots with 'personality'"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-66941337

To close the loop...

Factory notes https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/ ... msg5082460

Which refers to https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/headings/8540 containing copious notes

I think I'll just describe them as "obsolete electronic display devices". I can't see how VAT applies, since they don't pay it in the US. Discharge lamps appear to have no duty owing either. I'll try to get the Postmaster to serve me when I go to the PO, he's a former lead-melter, and mig...

Beckman Sperry Sp-352s. I should maybe affix a picture of them to the outside of the parcel? Oh, fun. I presume you have gone through https://www.gov.uk/guidance/classifying-electrical-equipment-for-import-and-export#parts-of-electrical-equipment https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/a-z-index/a ...

Talk aboot "rough carpentry" approach to electronics; this guy is doing everything with home-made instruments and equipment. He's like the bd139 of hollow-state !!! :clap: My father had a (?1920s?)book (well, series of books) about how to build a car. It started by telling the reader how ...

bd139 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 23, 2023 5:17 pm

Specmaster wrote: ↑Sat Sep 23, 2023 4:11 pm

bd139 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 22, 2023 6:13 pm So I bought another Tek 465B

Looking like a Tek is a substitute for a BD140,

There will be another bd140. There always is!

Spoken like a true software engineer, as per the old joke...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7037183

So I bought another Tek 465B :roll: How many times have you said "no more Teks". :lol: :lol: If he had a dollar (or maybe more precisely, £) for each time he said it, he could afford at least three or four more of them! Sometimes I think bd is single-handedly keeping the used TE market ti...

So I bought another Tek 465B :roll: ... and not mine. Mine now has a functional sweep and trigger: a 3W resistor in the sweep generator had doubled in value or gone open circuit. Only remaining imperfection is that ch1 attenuation fingers need cleaning. Alternatively you could have had a 465B with ...

It might turn out to be still profitable to just pay the fines as "cost of doing business" and simply pass that cost onto the customer. mnem Business as Usual is killing us all. "A breach of the law can result in an online content provider being fined up to £18 million or 10 percent ...

Incidentally this will go, as all these things do, absolutely fucking nowhere other than on the unemployment statistics when the tech firms move out of the UK. It won't Save The Children TM as claimed, but why would twatter/farcebook/etc removing an encrypted service have any affect on the number o...