I have sinned

[tggzzz]

... at PPAuctions.

A couple of Tek 1502 TDRs, because they are my fetish. Since they are Imperial rather than metric, I won't dind it difficult to let them go.

Some GR-875 connectors and leads.

Four sets of HP/Agilent DMM probe leads. I like 'em, and the rest are floggable.

An Instek PSU, which will probably end up at a hamfest.

And a Yokogawa TA320 time interval analyser, for 10% of what I paid for my HP/Agilent 53310A.

I saw several recognisable names bidding, and avoided those items.

Overall the prices and bidding seemed "muted" rather than "frenzied".

[Specmaster]

Not too bad really is it? Are driving all the way to collect or are offering a delivery service?

[Robert]

I see Ice Tea is getting a couple of pallet loads of HP heavyweight gear. I was surprised at the interest in and price raised by the HP8922x GSM test sets. They are really only good for parts, unless I'm missing something.
I bought a couple of items, A TTi TS3021S PSU and Philips PM5503 PAL video test generator. Both items I've been looking for. The PM5503 is a small farily modern unt and I have the "matching" audio signal generator. Both were designed and made here in Cambridge by Labgear.
Robert.

[tggzzz]

Not too bad really is it? Are driving all the way to collect or are offering a delivery service?

Driving.

After one item was mine, I added extra things to make it less un-worthwhile. The theory is that flogging some things at a profit pays for the petrol and depreciation.

Total cost is £145+15%+20%. Petrol plus depreciation maybe £65. The test probes are fetching >£30 each on fleabay.

[tggzzz]

I see Ice Tea is getting a couple of pallet loads of HP heavyweight gear. I was surprised at the interest in and price raised by the HP8922x GSM test sets. They are really only good for parts, unless I'm missing something.

I saw him snag a large Cambridge Instrument voltage divider. I was going to bid on it, but I saw he was bidding and decided it was too heavy anyway. I ignored the HP stuff, as it didn't interest me.

HP8922 test sets brings back memories of 30 years ago. I created a hardware interface for a project aiming to make it easy to go from ETSI specification to control software, by using the spec's FSM to autogenerate the corresponding C code. The tautogeneration sort of worked, but the softies chose to use C++ to draw the FSMs and create the C code. The drawing package took years; if they had used Smalltalk it would have been months.

I bought a couple of items, A TTi TS3021S PSU and Philips PM5503 PAL video test generator. Both items I've been looking for. The PM5503 is a small farily modern unt and I have the "matching" audio signal generator. Both were designed and made here in Cambridge by Labgear.

Did you miss out on some scintillation counters?

[Robert]

I have a full set of Mini-Instruments 900 series meters GM and Scint.

[Zenith]

You have fallen to temptation maybe, but not exactly sinned.

I was put off PPAuctions because of the driving involved. Had it been somewhere more within easy reach, I'd have been in there like a rat up a drain.