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[charlieb83]

My new power supply. 

[Circuitous]

I haven't seen that power supply before.  Will you be posting a review or teardown?

[Macbeth]

Today, I mostly received some totally genuwine AliExpress Hakko bendy tips for my soldering iron.

[Bud]

3D Space Mouse for my Altium. Lovely finishing quality.

[Macbeth]

@Bud - I can only imagine those things are like having the ultimate in non-sexual pleasure usage, especially coupled with multiple monitors. However, do they work with KiCAD properly?

[rrinker]

 A Canon MF624Cw color laser multifunction device. GF needs a printer and scanner for work, and I refuse to ever buy another inkjet device because I am tired of wasting money on print cartridges that cost more then the printer and dry out before you've used half of the ink. Huge sale, too. List for $350, Best Buy is selling them for $200. At the reduced price, replacement toners do cost more than the printer, but if you let it sit and not print anything for a few weeks it will still work fine. Also has a 1W sleep mode, which is pretty cool.
 Windows 10, love it or leave it, but by the time I was done connecting the printer to my wireless router, it was ALREADY installed and ready to go in Windows 10.  Had to use the supplied DVD for Windows 7, it did not automatically detect the printer like Win 10.
 Only negative, it's honkin' HUGE. Was fun getting it home - my car is rather small (BMW 135). Box wouldn't fit in the trunk. Or in the back seat. So GF climbed in the back (the back seats are there strictly for insurance purposes and VERY small children) and put the printer on the passenger seat.

[Cubdriver]

3D Space Mouse for my Altium. Lovely finishing quality.

Oh, you're gonna like that!     One of the best purchases I made for working with SolidWorks - it's sweet to be able to just twist and turn to move & zoom your model on the screen.  Very intuitive.  Though it was perplexing the fist time something (a cat in my case) rested on it and moved the model 50 miles off screen.  I returned from lunch to a blank screen, no model anywhere in sight.     I finally noticed that the little triad in the corner was in a bizarre orientation and hit the 'center the model' button and POOF it reappeared. Took a while to figure out what was going on until I eventually noticed a feline snoozing on the blasted thing and realized it was moving the model down, down, down...

-Pat

[Bud]

However, do they work with KiCAD properly?

Sorry i do not know, no kiCad here...

[Macbeth]

A Canon MF624Cw color laser multifunction device. GF needs a printer and scanner for work, and I refuse to ever buy another inkjet device because I am tired of wasting money on print cartridges that cost more then the printer and dry out before you've used half of the ink. Huge sale, too. List for $350, Best Buy is selling them for $200.

NO DUPLEX!!

I'm with you on the ridiculous ink costs which is why I buy the stuff in bulk. I gave up on the Epson Stylus' and now my latest MFP device a HP 8610 I only paid £80 for with cashback is excellent. It will scan documents to a network share over WiFi. Duplex is brilliant. Especially with the booklet printing modes.

I am only annoyed about it spending so much of its time phoning home to report ink usage and send the salesmen on to me for their ink plans. Feck that - I will hack those carts just like I did with the Epson... 

I also have a cheap B&W laser which I know and love, my trusty Samsung ML-2010. I'm using cheap bulk toner refills on that, but I have to admit for nice high resolution PCB boards it may be worth investing in a proper cartridge (or better toner).

[AF6LJ]

I bought one of these...

And one of these....
http://www.dxengineering.com/parts/dxe-rg-5000

[charlieb83]

I haven't seen that power supply before.  Will you be posting a review or teardown?

It's an Owon ODP3032. Haven't had a chance to give it much of a try yet.
At least, I do hope to do a teardown sometime in the future.

[SeanB]

A Canon MF624Cw color laser multifunction device. GF needs a printer and scanner for work, and I refuse to ever buy another inkjet device because I am tired of wasting money on print cartridges that cost more then the printer and dry out before you've used half of the ink. Huge sale, too. List for $350, Best Buy is selling them for $200.

NO DUPLEX!!

I'm with you on the ridiculous ink costs which is why I buy the stuff in bulk. I gave up on the Epson Stylus' and now my latest MFP device a HP 8610 I only paid £80 for with cashback is excellent. It will scan documents to a network share over WiFi. Duplex is brilliant. Especially with the booklet printing modes.

I am only annoyed about it spending so much of its time phoning home to report ink usage and send the salesmen on to me for their ink plans. Feck that - I will hack those carts just like I did with the Epson... 

I also have a cheap B&W laser which I know and love, my trusty Samsung ML-2010. I'm using cheap bulk toner refills on that, but I have to admit for nice high resolution PCB boards it may be worth investing in a proper cartridge (or better toner).

I have 2 working scanners ( plus another HP CX that needs a new lamp, and a SCSI card in whatever is going to drive it) which I got for free, as they were either "upgraded" or were too slow.

[Iwanushka]

How is that spacenavigator? Checked pricing and its only 100e, thinking to get one, using altium with touchpad is pain in the arse..

[BFX]

Hameg kelvin test leads for my  Agilent 4263B new for about 50EUR.
I also looking for (not crappy chinese) bnc kelvin tweezers.

[rdl]

I bought a new desk chair. I got tired of the cheap ones that break every year. This time I splurged and spent $400 for a heavy duty 1000lb capacity chair and best of all... no damn gas lift!

[AF6LJ]

I bought a new desk chair. I got tired of the cheap ones that break every year. This time I splurged and spent $400 for a heavy duty 1000lb capacity chair and best of all... no damn gas lift!

[canibalimao]

I bought a new desk chair. I got tired of the cheap ones that break every year. This time I splurged and spent $400 for a heavy duty 1000lb capacity chair and best of all... no damn gas lift!

You would need to buy a separate industrial air compressor just to lift 1000lb 

[SeanB]

I bought mine from a restaurant that was remodelling, got 6 for $10 each. Simple chairs, but I like them, just had to use a pack of chair feet ( not couch feet, otherwise I would have had a lot from a certain Aussie bloke on it's way to me) to replace the worn out ones. They work well.

[Bud]

How is that spacenavigator? Checked pricing and its only 100e, thinking to get one, using altium with touchpad is pain in the arse..

Still learning so cant tell for sure yet, but certainly helps navigating schematic sheets, easy zoom/scroll. I have a feeling it may be of more value to CAD software rather than Altium, but as you said price is ok, so why not.

[richfiles]

Menda 6oz ESD safe alcohol dispenser.  I use to use these in the military, you basically can just dip your acid brush in them and clean away at your PCB.  Isopropyl Alcohol is what I plan to put in mine.  A bit pricy but good quality:

Very nice container... Though the  12oz Aluminum container to the right has double the capacity, and is way cheaper! Just have to consume it's contents first! 

[TerraHertz]

Frustratingly, I *didn't* buy this recently: http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-view-details.html?adId=1065132580
Computer Moniter 19 inch LG Flatron (L1953H)

It's identical to the monitor I currently use on my main PC. Old, nothing special, got it for free. 1280x1024, which suits most of my uses well. But most importantly, you can remove the stand and use it like a picture frame - bottom edge on the desk. I like that, and with most monitors you can't.

When using photoshop I'd like to have a second screen for the tools panels. So I searched hoping to find a 2nd one the same. Found that. But $40 is too much. People throw these old 19 inch screen out on the street. I offered $20, and the seller accepted. As soon as I asked for their address to go pick it up (Blacktown, a long drive), they retracted their agreement and wanted $40 again. Then when I refused, they tried to bargain up to $30.

Phooey. I've been waiting for another one to turn up, so far no luck. If I wanted to pay significant money I'd just buy a nice new big screen.

I recheck that listing now and then. I doubt it's ever going to sell for $40. I guess that person has never searched gumtree for 'computer monitor, show cheapest first'.

[Sbampato12]

Sorry about low quality photo, but you can see a 34970A pretty face.

[Blaffetuur]

I haven't seen that power supply before.  Will you be posting a review or teardown?

+1

[Cubdriver]

Hi, my name is Pat, and I have a terrible addiction to curvy glowing orange numerals...



This arrived today from our favorite auction site.  It's in very good physical condition (though a bit dusty inside), but has at least a few issues as it's flakey on some ranges.  The serial number says it's from late 1966, and it was made in Great Britain.

I have the manual on order from Artek and will dig into it once I get the link.

-Pat

[xrunner]

Hi, my name is Pat, and I have a terrible addiction to curvy glowing orange numerals...

I LOVE it!