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I've caught the disease! I'm a single-payer (bench equipment)
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vinito:
I finally got a chance to make a little progress on the bench. Once it's done I'll probably outgrow it a week later. But for now I'm loving the look of the 12-foot length and no legs in the way out front.

Oh yeah I just remembered something important too. Being on an equipment "kick", I figured an electronic load might be kinda handy. After seeing Dave's, Martin Lorton's and Peter Oakes's videos (and I'm sure there are more) I figured one of my first bench projects will be to tweak those and design & build one to suit my own needs & wants. Seems like a good way to learn a bit about MOSFETs and Op-Amps and general ohm's law practice with a couple other small tidbits for good measure. For a load, I won't need anything fancy or expensive maybe ever, but at least for a long time. So this seems like a worthy, fun and educational project.
glue_ru:
I see your scope is center, is that the most common used piece?  I use the , IM-13, B&K 360 VOMatic, DMM and soldering station the most.
So I arrange mine to usage, and bring seldom used gear off the shelf and use as needed.  And because I have too much to put on the bench
and I don't want a wall of equipment I rarely use in front of me.  I have windows on 3 sides, so daylight is real nice to work in.
and I only have 22 outlets on 2 circuits, 1 long strip down each side under the window sill. the left one on an Isotral 15 amp filter.

vinito:
The scope was about the only bench "piece" I had  :P.
Otherwise I had a power supply bench left and a very seldom used signal generator (cheap deal) shelf left.
Now that I'm gonna have a nice bench DMM, it will undoubtedly be used the most and will be prominent.

But it almost doesn't matter much at the beginning because my plan is to build several rails of french cleats so I can mount shelves and racks of all sorts along the wall. Since they are so modular, I can pretty quickly re-arrange things as I go.

I'm a rookie at this so I'm sure no matter what I do at the start, it'll be way wronger than what I'll settle into after some time. The cleat thing will be my friend on that I think.

Dang I let the cat out of the bag. The french cleats were going to be a surprise.

Since I'm revealing design ideas though, I was originally going to wire up the bench, but decided that it might be better to run some raceway kind of track for the power kind of hidden but on the surface so I can maybe re-arrange that more easily later if necessary. Who am I kidding? I'm sure it will be necessary as it also will be wronger at first than it will later.
And as a bonus (or maybe just to add insult to injury?) I have a compressor nearby so thought I'd plumb up some 1/4" PEX line over to the bench for some easy access for compressed air. Plan to add separator & regulator, etc. I don't know if I'll need it much, but it might be handy.
Johncanfield:
I just built V2.0 of my electronics workbench (and ham radio station desk.) It appears I got it mostly right this time   :-+

The workbench is 8 feet long and 3 feet wide. The top is two sheets of 3/4" plywood and the entire bench is on rolling casters (wheels.) My major failure on V1.0 is the top was not deep enough, if I ever build V2.5, I would use the entire 4x8 foot sheet of plywood. Having the ability to roll the bench around is priceless.

My test equipment runs from 30 year old stuff to very modern, some of my older equipment is my first choice to use like my HP 34401A multimeter.

Like you I got back into electronics a few years ago.
gcewing:
Don't worry, as long as you have a bit of money left over to buy some parts to play with, you'll be fine. Oh, and some food too.
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