Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread

[Specmaster]

whats the point of tracking service if nobody records the progress??

My guess would be that it was sent through China Post. They have tracking for everything within their own domain - China - but unless you pay extra, no other carrier outside of China will bother with serving tracking data back to China Post.

Yes it was sent via China post but I have never been offered anything other then China post and I've had tracking right upto the the front door..

I'm hopeful now that I'll get my T-conn board soon as that is still being shown as sitting at Xiamen airport for the last 5 days unless it gets recalled again like the last one did 

[bd139]

Was the package opened by customs? Sometimes if it’s rebagged the tracking gets lost.

Same thing happened to me as well though.

Not unless they supply the customs with a supply of parcel tape printed with the Quicko corporate logo and message in order to seal it up again. Has yours arrived today as well then?

Ah definitely not opened then.

Nothing at all arrived today. Grr.

Found out this evening the electrician went and did some monkey magic in the fucking cupboard and knackered my thermostat receiver. Then I thought fuck it KFC. Got to KFC got served by a moron. Got back and the chicken isn’t even cooked properly.

Going to bed.

BTW that Tek 422 on eBay is mine. 

[Specmaster]

T12 controller fitted, irons modified with 4 pin plugs to suit and I can't say how good it is to be able to read clearly the display, far better then the Blue OLED controller and its also amazing just how close these two stations are now with the displays reading almost identically for the voltage being supplied to the element, the regulation of the power being consumed by each is within 1% of each other and the internal temperature measurement is within 1C.

The temperature calibration is almost the same setting as well, both stations maintain the temperature pretty well and measure within a few C on the Hakko 191 gauge, so I'm a happy bunny.

[Specmaster]

Nah, you're welcome to the Tek 422, its only 15MHz bandwidth, I'm looking to increase capability not decrease it 

You'll have to become a bit more of an all round engineer and less of a software geek because these service engineers are only interested in getting your problem sorted by the fastest means and if that means a bodge so be it. Don't you know that they are on a bonus culture as is so often the case today, with a low basic (if there is a basic even) and they rely on getting in and out quickly to get to the next service in order to bump their earnings up. All because modern management cannot see beyond the very basic simplistic economics of employing fewer engineers but doing the work of more. To hell with the long term economics of getting a good reputation and therefore more business as a result etc, its all about the here and now.

Be very careful about going to bed early, there might be repercussions later further down the line 

[neo]

Joyous news! My 2465B arrived today and it works! I mean the fan sounds like a dying cat but the thing displays a trace.

So should i replace electrolytics as well as fan or just the fans?

Just a note, thats a 480 MHz sine wave on a 400MHz scope. Damn this thing is nice.

[djos]

You guys haven't lived until you have had a 'pie floater'; a tradition in my state - typically consumed at around 3AM coming home from a night out - still 'motoring' (if you know what I mean). Sold by a mobile food van that only works from 2400 to 0800 Fri and Sat nights
A pastry and meat pie floating in pea soup topped with tomato sauce (ketchup)

wow!  just............ wow! 

have done lots of regrettable stuff when extremely lubricated.

but that is........well its.........there are no words for it.  wow!

Yeah it definitely requires significant lubrication to even consider eating one! (And I was raised in Adelaide)

[neo]

I think i may be a stacker 

edit; it screwed up the orientation.

[djos]

I think i may be a stacker 

edit; it screwed up the orientation.

That's some impressive gravity engineering there mate. 

[nixiefreqq]

nice stack.

gonna' go out on a limb here and say that you don't have any lab cats.

[neo]

nice stack.

gonna' go out on a limb here and say that you don't have any lab cats.

Whatever you do don't let go of the limb.

I have 10

Alessa, Garfield, Midge, Moses, Fluffy, Venus also called Boxtops, Romulus, Remus, Lazarus and Caesar

[Cerebus]

You guys haven't lived until you have had a 'pie floater'; a tradition in my state - typically consumed at around 3AM coming home from a night out - still 'motoring' (if you know what I mean). Sold by a mobile food van that only works from 2400 to 0800 Fri and Sat nights
A pastry and meat pie floating in pea soup topped with tomato sauce (ketchup)

wow!  just............ wow! 

have done lots of regrettable stuff when extremely lubricated.

but that is........well its.........there are no words for it.  wow!

Yeah it definitely requires significant lubrication to even consider eating one! (And I was raised in Adelaide)

Talking of lubrication, here is the Wigan kebab (aka Pie Barm) with a carefully selected matching wine.

For our friends in the North American former colonies, substitute the locally available equivalent, Ripple or Thunderbird. I'm not sure what the former Antipodean former colonists use to fill this bibularian hole.

[Cubdriver]

nice stack.

gonna' go out on a limb here and say that you don't have any lab cats.

Or that if he does, they are not members of the 'I must climb everything' breed that mine belong to...





-Pat

[neo]

nice stack.

gonna' go out on a limb here and say that you don't have any lab cats.

Or that if he does, they are not members of the 'I must climb everything' breed that mine belong to...





-Pat

I put the fear of almighty Tac into them. 

[nixiefreqq]

ok, your stacks look cat proof.

but that pile of neo's.....yikes!

[beanflying]

600V to the nose might change their minds 

[neo]

ok, your stacks look cat proof.

but that pile of neo's.....yikes!

Zip ties are my method of keeping things relatively safe.

[tggzzz]

Just a note, thats a 480 MHz sine wave on a 400MHz scope. Damn this thing is nice.

Pffft. My 485 can display and trigger on a >1GHz signal. The amplitude is rather small, though

Make sure you sort out the mains filter caps, as described elsewhere on this forum. Some say they aren't as prone to detonating on the low voltage in the US.

[neo]

Just a note, thats a 480 MHz sine wave on a 400MHz scope. Damn this thing is nice.

Pffft. My 485 can display and trigger on a >1GHz signal. The amplitude is rather small, though

Make sure you sort out the mains filter caps, as described elsewhere on this forum. Some say they aren't as prone to detonating on the low voltage in the US.

480 Mhz is the highest signal i can generate 

[nixiefreqq]

You guys haven't lived until you have had a 'pie floater'; a tradition in my state - typically consumed at around 3AM coming home from a night out - still 'motoring' (if you know what I mean). Sold by a mobile food van that only works from 2400 to 0800 Fri and Sat nights
A pastry and meat pie floating in pea soup topped with tomato sauce (ketchup)

wow!  just............ wow! 

have done lots of regrettable stuff when extremely lubricated.

but that is........well its.........there are no words for it.  wow!

Yeah it definitely requires significant lubrication to even consider eating one! (And I was raised in Adelaide)

Talking of lubrication, here is the Wigan kebab (aka Pie Barm) with a carefully selected matching wine.

For our friends in the North American former colonies, substitute the locally available equivalent, Ripple or Thunderbird. I'm not sure what the former Antipodean former colonists use to fill this bibularian hole.

MD 20/20  (mad dog) used to be the late night desperation beverage of choice back in the 70's.  but here in the colonies  we just got a damn pizza (like the civilized people we are).

[Cubdriver]

ok, your stacks look cat proof.

but that pile of neo's.....yikes!

    It is somewhat cat resistant, by virtue of mass, but nothing is ever truly cat proof!!





-Pat

[bitseeker]

Pies are a lot more rambunctious outside the US. Floating in pea soup, stuffed into loaves of bread, what next?

Hmm, maybe we should put pumpkin pie inside the turkey.

[xrunner]

  It is somewhat cat resistant, by virtue of mass, but nothing is ever truly cat proof!!

Forget the little colored scope probe markers - that one can be identified from now on by virtue of little pin holes in the cable LOL. 

[Specmaster]

nice stack.

gonna' go out on a limb here and say that you don't have any lab cats.

Whatever you do don't let go of the limb.

I have 10

Alessa, Garfield, Midge, Moses, Fluffy, Venus also called Boxtops, Romulus, Remus, Lazarus and Caesar

What is it with cats, are they secretly frustrated electronic engineers, I have 2 of them, Megan and Willow and Willow especially likes to climb anything high while Megan does it when she wants feeding as she knows how much it annoys me because she is the biggest of the 2 by far and also the least stable on her feet.

[bitseeker]

Cats are much smarter than they let on. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

[neo]

Cats are much smarter than they let on. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

That may be but they won't bite the hand that feeds them........ hard.