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Offline plazma

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Re: What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!
« Reply #625 on: November 24, 2015, 05:37:19 pm »
Bought a calculator. The NiCd cells were bad. One segment line is dead. I hope the 546A-5N chips are fine. The NiCd cells have been changed at least once before.

 

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« Reply #626 on: November 25, 2015, 10:05:29 am »
An rtl-sdr.
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« Reply #627 on: November 27, 2015, 06:56:53 am »
Picked up a Shibasoku 725B distortion analyser! She's a little sick though, I think some of the relays are faulty but I guess it's to be expected after 22 years. This'll keep me busy for a while.

It's the unit on the top, the build quality is breathtaking, have a look at that wiring!

It shows 6% of full scale 0.003% = 0.00018% (~-115dB) THD+N for 2.6Vrms @ 2kHz // 30kHz BW. Considering that its residual is specced <-103dB THD+N, you can tell the engineers didn't pull any punches.
 

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« Reply #628 on: November 28, 2015, 08:42:07 pm »
Any survivors here on the forum, who want to share some stories?   :scared:


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« Reply #629 on: November 28, 2015, 09:06:54 pm »
Picked up a Shibasoku 725B distortion analyser! She's a little sick though, I think some of the relays are faulty but I guess it's to be expected after 22 years. This'll keep me busy for a while.

It's the unit on the top, the build quality is breathtaking, have a look at that wiring!

It shows 6% of full scale 0.003% = 0.00018% (~-115dB) THD+N for 2.6Vrms @ 2kHz // 30kHz BW. Considering that its residual is specced <-103dB THD+N, you can tell the engineers didn't pull any punches.

Sweet  :-+
The build quality is great.
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« Reply #630 on: November 28, 2015, 09:13:05 pm »
@continuo

Bread and circuses. I am still waiting to hear from all my baby-mommas that camped outside Tequipment HQ for me... I hope they did well... I think all that xmas equipment I was expecting is going to be smashed to pieces and I won't hear of them until I see them on Jerry Springer or Jeremy Kyle USA.  :palm:

Now I am libertarian at heart, but the likes of the Walton family that fuck up local businesses and then rely on welfare recipients and also paying the bare minimum to their staff (who then rely on government subsidy) to engineer these spectacles for their own amusement and profit because the loss leaders are made up with the saps who are left behind makes me sick. Because they bought ASDA and they are bringing even more of this shit USA culture to the UK  :--
 

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« Reply #631 on: November 28, 2015, 10:51:04 pm »
Any survivors here on the forum, who want to share some stories?   :scared:

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:wtf: Is this for real???  :wtf:
This is crazy stupid and I bet the prices aren't even lower than normal!
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« Reply #632 on: November 28, 2015, 11:17:16 pm »
That's extraordinary, sharks in a feeding frenzy appear to be far more civilised.

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« Reply #633 on: November 29, 2015, 01:48:33 am »
a 22" acer monitor for my pc, a 40" sony bravia TV , 1tb hdd that got stuffed into my old toshiba a100 lappy, a tl866a programmer.

didnt even leave my chair
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« Reply #634 on: November 29, 2015, 02:16:12 am »
New coffee maker and it wasn't even on sale (they are not dummies)

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Re: What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!
« Reply #635 on: November 29, 2015, 02:39:53 am »
A bicycle for the girlfriend.

That was a purchase, not a swap

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« Reply #636 on: November 29, 2015, 02:56:42 am »
A bicycle for the girlfriend.

That was a purchase, not a swap

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« Reply #637 on: November 29, 2015, 07:14:31 am »
Even outside of the USA there was a Black Friday sale. Did not realise it, and went to do my normal shopping after work, and then found the line to go in, along with the crazy queues. In easy, 10 minutes doing the shopping ( no real reductions, but they had a massive pile of Coke going into trolleys as fast as they brought out the pallets. I did not buy any, just Coke Zero) and then a 40 minute wait in a line to pay for the shopping. The store normally closes at 6PM, but Friday they closed at 10. Suggested to the staff members I know that they needed some Monster energy drink to keep them going, seeing they were working a 15 hour shift.
 

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« Reply #638 on: November 29, 2015, 08:32:59 am »
I'm surprised in this politically correct world we now have they get away with calling it that with the connotations some would use.
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« Reply #639 on: November 29, 2015, 08:48:11 am »
I'm surprised in this politically correct world we now have they get away with calling it that with the connotations some would use.

as long as you profess that "all black fridays matter"  ...

you can slip thru the gauntlet of the perpetually outraged
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« Reply #640 on: November 29, 2015, 09:21:00 am »
Boy, I haven't seen anything like this before... If I was a Walmart shop clerk I certainly wouldn't show up without proper riot control gear on that particular day... Amazon started something similar here a few years ago, they call it "Cyber Monday" but it actually takes an entire week and the deals aren't really breathtaking, and, of course, it's an online retailer so you wouldn't risk your life and get stomped into the ground by buying something from them. I bought Adobe Photoshop Elements & Premiere Elements 14, together for ~50€, thought that to be a good price (not on Amazon).  :popcorn:
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« Reply #641 on: November 29, 2015, 10:06:52 am »
It seems like it is getting worst every year!
The economy can not be that bad in the US, when so many people still have money to buy things they don't need.
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« Reply #642 on: November 29, 2015, 10:25:38 am »
Honestly,this year is the first time I have heard of "Black Friday" in this context.

Black Friday always has meant any "Friday the Thirteenth".

It also had a specific meaning in Oz,due to the horrific fires  in Victoria in 1939.


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« Reply #644 on: November 29, 2015, 12:57:04 pm »
which just leaves me asking the question, if they know they are going to be in the red at the normal prices , but in the black at the sale prices and making a profit, who in hell is advising them on how to be a profitable company.
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« Reply #645 on: November 29, 2015, 02:09:08 pm »
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« Reply #646 on: November 29, 2015, 03:15:25 pm »
On Friday, a roll of nitrile rubber sheet. It's black. Curiously I was the only customer at counter sales of Associated Gaskets. No crazed horde at all, can't imagine why not.

Pics of my black (rubber) Friday buy:  http://everist.org/NobLog/20151112_planning_vacuum.htm#gask
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Re: What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!
« Reply #647 on: November 29, 2015, 05:24:38 pm »
On Friday, a roll of nitrile rubber sheet. It's black. Curiously I was the only customer at counter sales of Associated Gaskets. No crazed horde at all, can't imagine why not.

Pics of my black (rubber) Friday buy:  http://everist.org/NobLog/20151112_planning_vacuum.htm#gask
mmm a lathe, I wanna live in your garage
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Re: What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!
« Reply #648 on: December 01, 2015, 12:36:56 am »
I didn't buy it nor do I intend to but according to this expert the Rigol scopes are unreliable..... :bullshit: :palm:

Edit : Removed link to EBay listing, it sold for $270.00 AUD with 36 bids, I'm half tempted to cash in my shares portfolio and buy TDS-220 scopes, they are getting incredible prices down here.


« Last Edit: December 13, 2015, 12:23:45 pm by Muttley Snickers »
 

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Re: What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!
« Reply #649 on: December 01, 2015, 12:56:44 am »
I didn't buy it nor do I intend to but according to this expert the Rigol scopes are unreliable..... :bullshit: :palm:

My TDS210 has been in service since the mid 90s and hasn't locked up once, 20 years and still going strong.

No way in hell my MSO4000 will make that,  :-DD


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