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Offline steve30

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Re: Stock Electronic Image FAILS
« Reply #125 on: September 10, 2016, 09:54:15 pm »
If its of any interest to anyone, DigitalRev TV just did something about stock videos, and featured the soldering iron  8).

 
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Re: Stock Electronic Image FAILS
« Reply #126 on: September 12, 2016, 09:02:23 pm »
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Re: Stock Electronic Image FAILS
« Reply #127 on: November 25, 2016, 06:09:39 am »
I have been meaning to order some Light bridge solder paste.  ;)
 

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Re: Stock Electronic Image FAILS
« Reply #128 on: November 25, 2016, 08:13:03 am »
He's holding it right but what's he soldering? and why is he stroking his beard...  :palm:

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Re: Stock Electronic Image FAILS
« Reply #129 on: November 25, 2016, 10:50:56 am »
He's holding it right but what's he soldering? and why is he stroking his beard...  :palm:


this guy is basically this dog:
 
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Re: Stock Electronic Image FAILS
« Reply #130 on: November 28, 2016, 01:25:52 pm »
That poor Dog.
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Re: Stock Electronic Image FAILS
« Reply #131 on: November 28, 2016, 01:35:06 pm »
this guy is basically this dog:


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Re: Stock Electronic Image FAILS
« Reply #132 on: November 28, 2016, 02:32:35 pm »
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Re: Stock Electronic Image FAILS
« Reply #133 on: November 29, 2016, 02:12:38 am »


Lol I think that's a phone switching component.  Pretty sure they used wirewrap for those and not solder.
 

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Re: Stock Electronic Image FAILS
« Reply #134 on: November 29, 2016, 02:16:14 am »
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Lol I think that's a phone switching component.  Pretty sure they used wirewrap for those and not solder.

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Re: Stock Electronic Image FAILS
« Reply #135 on: November 29, 2016, 02:19:26 am »
It does look like a step switch and they predated wire wrap by decades. I'll bet some of those irons are still in use in sold old exchanges. I saw some tips hanging in a shop note long again.



 

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Re: Stock Electronic Image FAILS
« Reply #136 on: December 16, 2016, 03:55:55 am »
Bump for more silly soldering photos!
 

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Re: Stock Electronic Image FAILS
« Reply #137 on: December 19, 2016, 01:21:19 pm »
This gem accompanied a newspaper article today:



(here is the article: http://spravy.pravda.sk/ekonomika/clanok/413847-zlacnenie-elektriny-zavisi-od-isticov-v-dome/ - it talks about electricity prices being dependent on the size of the circuit breakers in the home)

Gotta love that cheapo meter. Oh and the guy forgot to turn it on as well ...
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Re: Stock Electronic Image FAILS
« Reply #138 on: December 19, 2016, 01:36:52 pm »
Gotta love that cheapo meter. Oh and the guy forgot to turn it on as well ...
The cables look like SATA cables...
 

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Re: Stock Electronic Image FAILS
« Reply #139 on: December 19, 2016, 02:02:20 pm »
And are obviously not plugged in - which is the only thing that is making it safe
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Re: Stock Electronic Image FAILS
« Reply #140 on: December 19, 2016, 02:19:09 pm »
This gem accompanied a newspaper article today:



(here is the article: http://spravy.pravda.sk/ekonomika/clanok/413847-zlacnenie-elektriny-zavisi-od-isticov-v-dome/ - it talks about electricity prices being dependent on the size of the circuit breakers in the home)

Gotta love that cheapo meter. Oh and the guy forgot to turn it on as well ...
Forget the probing, how retard can a person be for not switching it to something that show digits.. its a bloody meter even a 5year old would think "mhm maybe I should switch the knob to something that shows digits.."

 

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Re: Stock Electronic Image FAILS
« Reply #141 on: December 19, 2016, 10:17:53 pm »
Forget the probing, how retard can a person be for not switching it to something that show digits.. its a bloody meter even a 5year old would think "mhm maybe I should switch the knob to something that shows digits.."

Well, many stock photos don't show anything on the displays because the idea is that the final user will photoshop something there that makes sense in their context. Like the memory with the "VIRUS!" on it earlier in the thread. Doing it with the display showing something already would be harder.

Of course, companies preparing these photobanks are often pretty clueless about what the gizmo the guy is holding is actually for and how it is used ...


 

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Re: Stock Electronic Image FAILS
« Reply #142 on: January 04, 2017, 10:13:17 am »
Not sure the source or context of this one but was posted on Reddit in a thread about a stock image fail (holding soldering iron by the part that gets hot).  I think it was even made to make fun of these stock image fails.  Thought it was amusing, the light bulb really adds to it. :D



 

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Re: Stock Electronic Image FAILS
« Reply #143 on: January 04, 2017, 11:30:12 am »
Not sure the source or context of this one but was posted on Reddit in a thread about a stock image fail (holding soldering iron by the part that gets hot).  I think it was even made to make fun of these stock image fails.  Thought it was amusing, the light bulb really adds to it. :D


There is your problem, you have a light bulb in your power supply! remove it and it will work just fine.
 

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Re: Stock Electronic Image FAILS
« Reply #144 on: January 04, 2017, 01:27:20 pm »
Back in like '84 when the Mac first came out there was an Apple ad showing a young guy sitting at a table intently looking at his Mac screen, hand on the mouse. The angle of the shot was facing him almost head on so it showed the back of the Mac, not the front. The power switch was in the off position. Wish I could find it.
 
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Re: Stock Electronic Image FAILS
« Reply #145 on: January 04, 2017, 04:15:19 pm »
 That one is all too realistic though. Back in college I had a professor SCREAM at me and my boss that I broke her computer while doing the cleaning and upgrading I was doing that summer. I know it worked after we were done because I had turned it on and verified it (one of the things we were doing was upgrading the memory - to 640K!). Force of habit though, I flipped it off via the power supply switch. Go back to her office, she's looking like she wants to scream at me again, I casually reach behind the computer and flip the power switch on, and of course it all works perfectly. The first of many of the same sort of thing happening over a long IT career.
 
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Re: Stock Electronic Image FAILS
« Reply #146 on: January 09, 2017, 03:32:59 am »
   If three 100  Ohm resistors are connected in parallel, and in series with a 200 Ohm resistor, how many resistors do you have? 
 
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Re: Stock Electronic Image FAILS
« Reply #147 on: February 14, 2017, 07:50:59 pm »
just scrolling from the first page:
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Re: Stock Electronic Image FAILS
« Reply #149 on: February 20, 2017, 03:40:18 am »
These are too funny. :D
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