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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #14425 on: August 10, 2018, 09:33:38 pm »
Better hope the batteries haven't leaked as they supposedly last a very long time;'

http://powersupply.blogs.keysight.com/2012/06/battery-drain-analysis-of-handheld-hp.html

And why does Google insist on showing mostly printer parts or computer stuff everytime I search for HP TE:palm:

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Because they re-used all the friggin' numbers for the computer crap, too.  I find that very annoying, too.  Putting the letter suffix on the search term tends to help at least somewhat.  I'm sure I miss plenty of wrongly-categorized gear on the 'bay by limiting searches to 'business and industrial' in order to cut down on the noise.  I've seen dopes put test gear in 'consumer' and 'antique and collectible'. HP also returns a lot of electric motors, and engine parts, too.

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #14426 on: August 11, 2018, 12:16:52 am »
Better hope the batteries haven't leaked as they supposedly last a very long time;'

http://powersupply.blogs.keysight.com/2012/06/battery-drain-analysis-of-handheld-hp.html

And why does Google insist on showing mostly printer parts or computer stuff everytime I search for HP TE:palm:

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Because they re-used all the friggin' numbers for the computer crap, too.  I find that very annoying, too.  Putting the letter suffix on the search term tends to help at least somewhat.  I'm sure I miss plenty of wrongly-categorized gear on the 'bay by limiting searches to 'business and industrial' in order to cut down on the noise.  I've seen dopes put test gear in 'consumer' and 'antique and collectible'. HP also returns a lot of electric motors, and engine parts, too.

-Pat
I also seem to trawl up a load of hits on Ebay for brake parts  :rant:

Get any for Saturn? I need to do the brakes on my wife's old car...  :-DD


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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #14427 on: August 11, 2018, 05:16:08 am »
Well, my fellow tea party compatriots, i fear i have suffered a relapse.  Six months and 200 pages went by but finally i have been lured by temptation once more, god help me. A tested and warranted Fluke 8200 popped up on evil bay and, running the risk of being burned at the stake, i bought it. :-DD

https://www.ebay.com/itm/FLUKE-8200A-Used-Cleaned-Tested-2-year-warranty/392092406525



It is so hard to say no to buying stuff when you literally have spare parts just lying around, worst bit is it WILL detract from the hamfest fund this year but hey, at least this way i guarantee the money doesn't just go into miscellaneous junk. The 11 bucks tax was killer though  :wtf:

Oh well, i at least now have most of my dragons rounded up and as such have negated the need to chase them. Random crap from hamfests, i'm coming for ya!  ;D
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #14428 on: August 11, 2018, 06:06:44 am »
Welcome back, neo! Nice Nixie meter. Looking forward to your hamfest finds.
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #14429 on: August 11, 2018, 07:16:06 am »
Hey neo - I'm doing a high voltage PCB creepage test for work and had to set up a bell jar and vacuum pump on my bench today, and in the process of excavating came across the patient and long suffering HP 5340A counter that I still haven't touched, and it made me realize that I haven't seen hide nor hair of you here for a long time.  Funny that you'd reappear tonight.

Welcome back - glad to see you've fallen off the wagon and rejoined our little band of loonies.

Congrats on snagging the 8200!  :-+

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #14430 on: August 11, 2018, 11:21:40 am »
Well, my fellow tea party compatriots, i fear i have suffered a relapse.  Six months and 200 pages went by but finally i have been lured by temptation once more, god help me. A tested and warranted Fluke 8200 popped up on evil bay and, running the risk of being burned at the stake, i bought it. :-DD


It is so hard to say no to buying stuff when you literally have spare parts just lying around, worst bit is it WILL detract from the hamfest fund this year but hey, at least this way i guarantee the money doesn't just go into miscellaneous junk. The 11 bucks tax was killer though  :wtf:

Oh well, i at least now have most of my dragons rounded up and as such have negated the need to chase them. Random crap from hamfests, i'm coming for ya!  ;D

good to see ya' back!

freq counters have always been my primary addiction.......but you sure have tempted me to become a volt nut too.

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #14431 on: August 11, 2018, 11:44:59 am »
a question for the brits.

ok....swmbo makes a pretty good bubble and squeak.

and although it seems odd, you guys have convinced me that there is nothing basically wrong with beans on toast.


but "mushy peas"?  wtf? 
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #14432 on: August 11, 2018, 12:09:05 pm »
Beans on toast is great. Do two slices of bread. First slice stick beans on it. Second slice stick a fried egg on it. Blob of HP sauce on the side for the egg white. Serve with crap instant coffee or tea. Sorted.

Mushy peas are great too. You just have to eat them with the right food. Usually fish and chips or a meat pie.

neo: congratulations on your relapse.

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #14433 on: August 11, 2018, 12:25:46 pm »
Beans on toast is great. Do two slices of bread. First slice stick beans on it. Second slice stick a fried egg on it. Blob of HP sauce on the side for the egg white. Serve with crap instant coffee or tea. Sorted.

Mushy peas are great too. You just have to eat them with the right food. Usually fish and chips or a meat pie.

neo: congratulations on your relapse.

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #14434 on: August 11, 2018, 12:26:36 pm »
I’m building them not putting them up fortunately :)

No will skip this lot. Got too many other things on!
 

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #14435 on: August 11, 2018, 12:30:45 pm »
I’m building them not putting them up fortunately :)

No will skip this lot. Got too many other things on!
I thought about it cos the shipping and duty to be paid but if I can get a good display and AC option out of it, it'll triple the value of mine I'm thinking [emoji848]
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« Reply #14436 on: August 11, 2018, 02:02:31 pm »
ok....swmbo makes a pretty good bubble and squeak.

M&S (an upmarket food/clothes chain) sells pre-prepared cook-chill bubble and squeak - which is the best example of "missing the point" that I have ever come across.

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but "mushy peas"?  wtf?

Normally I'd agree, but there's local company that makes them more than palatable:  "MOTHERSHIP / 9.50 A NY CLASSIC PIE, MASH, MINTY MUSHY PEAS , CHEDDAR & CRISPY SHALLOTS"
https://www.pieminister.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Summer-menu-2018-mk3-no-scoop.pdf

Note the key points: very good pies, and lots of mint in the mushy peas.
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #14437 on: August 11, 2018, 02:07:11 pm »
M&S is for the lazy and stupid I find. More packaging and marketing wrapping up a portion of disappointment.

Pie Minister is awesome. Went in there in Brixton a few months back.

Decided to take a jaunt out on the bus quick after all this talk of food. Sitting in spoons at the moment with the kids. Cheap and not terrible. Especially when you’re dosed up on codeine :)
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« Reply #14438 on: August 11, 2018, 02:10:20 pm »
good to see ya' back!

freq counters have always been my primary addiction.......but you sure have tempted me to become a volt nut too.

73 and gud luck in the contest om

Well i aint much of a volt nut either, more a multimeter nut.... or perhaps more accurately a nixie tube nut. ::)


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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #14439 on: August 11, 2018, 02:19:22 pm »
Well i aint much of a volt nut either, more a multimeter nut.... or perhaps more accurately a nixie tube nut. ::)

It's really about that glow.  :-DD


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« Reply #14440 on: August 11, 2018, 06:06:45 pm »
LOL! Really need some sense disambiguation there, xrunner. :-DD
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« Reply #14441 on: August 11, 2018, 06:27:26 pm »
Hmmm... as some of you may know, I'm in the process of hoeing out our house so we can move out of Tejas. One of several locations my wife and I discussed was Seattle, as they have temperate weather (if wet) and both booming Tech and Education job markets.

SEATAC, Wash. —

A “suicidal” airline employee stole an empty Horizon Air turboprop plane, took off from Sea-Tac International Airport, and was chased by military jets before crashing into a small island in the Puget Sound on Friday night, officials said.


Video with ATC and pilot conversation:

https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/1028185360268972032

Okay; everybody who warned us that Seattle is the suicide capitol of the nation... point taken. Toronto it is.  :scared:


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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #14442 on: August 11, 2018, 06:41:28 pm »
More rain in Seattle than here in U.K.  Toronto looks nice. Always wanted to go there.
 

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« Reply #14443 on: August 11, 2018, 06:56:31 pm »
There's a reason it's so green in the Seatac area. They also have a cool aviation museum near Boeing.

Toronto is also very nice. Lots of green suburbs with tree-lined streets.
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #14444 on: August 11, 2018, 07:12:14 pm »
Hmmm... as some of you may know, I'm in the process of hoeing out our house so we can move out of Tejas. One of several locations my wife and I discussed was Seattle, as they have temperate weather (if wet) and both booming Tech and Education job markets.

SEATAC, Wash. —

A “suicidal” airline employee stole an empty Horizon Air turboprop plane, took off from Sea-Tac International Airport, and was chased by military jets before crashing into a small island in the Puget Sound on Friday night, officials said.


Video with ATC and pilot conversation:

https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/1028185360268972032

Okay; everybody who warned us that Seattle is the suicide capitol of the nation... point taken. Toronto it is.  :scared:


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I guess last night the film came true then eh, "Sleepless in Seattle", I reckon there was a whole lot people having trouble getting to sleep last night. :phew: Thank goodness he never crashed into a heavily populated area.
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« Reply #14445 on: August 11, 2018, 07:21:42 pm »
As far as locations go all i can say it may be a small dream of mine to live in Wyoming. Personally I've never been, except for one time when i was too young to remember,  but if you would listen to my father it is a slice of heaven on earth.


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« Reply #14446 on: August 11, 2018, 07:48:04 pm »
Well I've pretty much decided that my 465 is now a parts mule. And I've been scanning Evil Bay. Found some possible contenders and made an offer on one. It has some physical damage but I can swap over parts from mine. We'll see what happens. I'll report if it goes through.
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #14447 on: August 11, 2018, 07:52:18 pm »
Better hope the batteries haven't leaked as they supposedly last a very long time;'

http://powersupply.blogs.keysight.com/2012/06/battery-drain-analysis-of-handheld-hp.html

And why does Google insist on showing mostly printer parts or computer stuff everytime I search for HP TE:palm:

David

Because they re-used all the friggin' numbers for the computer crap, too.  I find that very annoying, too.  Putting the letter suffix on the search term tends to help at least somewhat.  I'm sure I miss plenty of wrongly-categorized gear on the 'bay by limiting searches to 'business and industrial' in order to cut down on the noise.  I've seen dopes put test gear in 'consumer' and 'antique and collectible'. HP also returns a lot of electric motors, and engine parts, too.

-Pat
I also seem to trawl up a load of hits on Ebay for brake parts  :rant:

I tried my best to avoid mentioning car parts, the most annoying type of listings, sellers seem to list the exact same part 50 (or more times) for each model it fits.  :rant:

Also hold peak seem to spam HP in their model numbers, but that's easy enough to sort out.

Ebay.com has the added bonus of about 4 times the amount of stuff under 'Business and Industrial' than Ebay.uk too, so I tend to limit my searches to 'Test, Measurement & Inspection' & 'Electrical Equipment & Supplies' as it takes too long otherwise. I do sometimes look at the other two catagories you mentioned ('consumer' and 'antique and collectible') but only in the UK.
I don't seem to find any bargains in the wrong categories these days though, best I had was this HP (Hernia Producer) digital recorder/clock combo listed under antiques a few years back in Austria.

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #14448 on: August 11, 2018, 07:58:18 pm »
I guess last night the film came true then eh, "Sleepless in Seattle", I reckon there was a whole lot people having trouble getting to sleep last night. :phew: Thank goodness he never crashed into a heavily populated area.

LOL... I guess I can laugh now, right?

Yeah; if you listen to the video, you can see he's not a angry guy, not a terrorist... he's just had enough and this was how he wanted to go out. Said something about "Uhh... yeah. Minimum Wage... pass that on to the higher-ups...." There's a spot where traffic control explained they were just trying to keep him out of the path of landing aircraft, and he was all like " Oh, yeah right... I wanna stay all away from all that. Thanks..." Pretty sure his crash into that island in Puget Sound was at least semi-deliberate to not be in a heavily populated area.

The aircraft only had a few thousand lbs of fuel, so no way it could've been in the air more than a few minutes; I'm sure it was all over before most people in the area knew there was even something going on. But when those National Guard jets scrambled, I'm sure the sonic boom rattled a few windows...

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #14449 on: August 11, 2018, 08:09:53 pm »
More rain in Seattle than here in U.K.  Toronto looks nice. Always wanted to go there.


Summers are (used to be) better in Seattle than the UK (I moved here from London in 1986).  This year might be an exception. But we don't ever admit to that... it is of course, raining as I speak (really - might get a thunderstorm or two later today).  Back into the 80s for next week though.

There are too many people here now.  The geography is such that there are few major arterial roads so traffic sucks.  Public transport is inadequate.  No, not a good place to relocate to right now.
 


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