Stock Electronic Image FAILS

[rrinker]

 My technique is very much like Big Clive's - right to holding the component with the ring or index finger of my left hand which is also holding the solder, and hoping I get the joint before enough heat leaks through to burn the finger holding it against the board, in the case of those sorts of things with large metallic areas like a power connector or pot. The way I do passives is to hold the part against the board and push the lead slightly sideways to s slight kink at the pad when populating them, then they stay tight to the board while soldering and they're not bent over so far as to make it hard to cut the excess lead off neatly.

[JoeO]

Here is an image fail from an active ebay listing.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Digital-Voltmeter-Ammeter-Ohmmeter-Multimeter-Volt-AC-DC-Tester-Meter-US-Seller-/271496690158?_trkparms=%26rpp_cid%3D573baf2ae4b0023ba0177a59%26rpp_icid%3D580513fae4b0d6f7dac536c7

[amspire]

Here is an image fail from an active ebay listing.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Digital-Voltmeter-Ammeter-Ohmmeter-Multimeter-Volt-AC-DC-Tester-Meter-US-Seller-/271496690158?_trkparms=%26rpp_cid%3D573baf2ae4b0023ba0177a59%26rpp_icid%3D580513fae4b0d6f7dac536c7

That wasn't because they plugged the leads in wrong. It is just that they photoshoped the leads from another multimeter that had the COM connection in the centre. If you look, even the slightly bent tip of the red probe is the same:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Digital-Multimeter-Multi-Tester-Voltmeter-Ammeter-Ohmmeter-with-LCD-Back-Light/271944706906

[MrBungle]

Still a fail.
Anyone able to go that far with photoshop would also be able to go one step further and move the black one to the correct location.

[Ultrawipf]

Don't forget your safety gear.



You have gone too far if your probes are smoking.

[amyk]

Still a fail.
Anyone able to go that far with photoshop would also be able to go one step further and move the black one to the correct location.

What puzzles me is that essentially everyone has a camera these days. Why not just take an actual photo of the product?

[Cubdriver]

You have gone too far if your probes are smoking.

Any idea what the counter on the bottom left is?  I see nixies!     

And it's interesting that no one seems to use solder to solder.  They use probes, screwdrivers, alligator clips, etc...  But rarely solder.   

-Pat

[amyk]

^ Because they go and try to buy some, but the several dozen warnings about causing cancer in the state of California and other horrid things turns them away immediately.

[Cubdriver]

It seems everything causes cancer in California.   

-Pat

[Vgkid]

Any idea what the counter on the bottom left is?  I see nixies!     

It is ex USSR, no clue.
Found it.
http://www.amplifier.cd/Test_Equipment/other/43-54-zaehler-udssr.htm
I'm more interested in that lcr/ohm meter.

[Cubdriver]

It is ex USSR, no clue.
Found it.
http://www.amplifier.cd/Test_Equipment/other/43-54-zaehler-udssr.htm
I'm more interested in that lcr/ohm meter.

Cool. Thanks!  Want!     

Because, ya know, I've only got about two dozen counters...   

-Pat

[yuzuha]

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.

After calling in an IBM tech to fix some guy's 3270 terminal that wasn't plugged in, I learned to sound very condescending when people called about terminals that wouldn't work.    Then there was the gal who piled crap on top of hers and then took it off when I called IBM so the CE could work on it.... Took him a while to figure that one out.... finally he hung around late and watched her pile stuff back on top of the vent holes.

[AF6LJ]

You have gone too far if your probes are smoking.

That is funny as Hell.

[Gyro]

An absolute gem today from the BBC News site today, regarding IBM's Quantum computers...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-39152326

Quote of picture caption:  "Quantum computers use components very different to those in desktop machines"
 

[PA0PBZ]

You have gone too far if your probes are smoking.

Is that mjlorton?

[Cubdriver]

An absolute gem today from the BBC News site today, regarding IBM's Quantum computers...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-39152326

Quote of picture caption:  "Quantum computers use components very different to those in desktop machines"
 

Well, it's obviously true.  I can't recall ever seeing a neon glow lamp in a desktop...   

-Pat

[steve30]

Back in 2012 I scanned in these magazine adverts for 'IT Pro'. Clearly the laptop in the advert is a 1997 PowerBook 3400 (or possibly the similar G3 Kanga).

I was reading a copy of MicroMart a few months ago and was surprised to see the same advert is still in use.

I couldn't help but think the choice of computer was a bit ironic when the advert talks about 'today's news'. 

[Bud]

OK this one is right from the cover of the last Electronics Design magazine. No one needs stinking ground reference when doing differential "A-B" on a conventional scope.

[tggzzz]

Here's one from the digikey "catalogue":
https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/panasonic-electronic-components/ECW-U1102JX5/PCF1348CT-ND/353833

Look closely at the picture of the capacitor.

[Gyro]

   Obviously Panasonic have developed a new method of mechanical trimming!

[Canis Dirus Leidy]

http://www.amplifier.cd/Test_Equipment/other/43-54-zaehler-udssr.htm
I'm more interested in that lcr/ohm meter.

It's (if I correctly understand which device do you mean) not RCL meter. This is digital voltmeter V7-34.

[Vgkid]

http://www.amplifier.cd/Test_Equipment/other/43-54-zaehler-udssr.htm
I'm more interested in that lcr/ohm meter.

It's (if I correctly understand which device do you mean) not RCL meter. This is digital voltmeter V7-34.

That might be correct, it is this one.

[Cyberdragon]

GUYS, I HAVE A CONFESSION!

When I was a teenager, I was personally in a photo worthy of this thread. And yes, it's bloody aweful. I mean, It was somewhat deliberate because I didn't care. But when you realize how bad stock photographers are, they have a talent of making things ten times worse. I'll try to find it (I have no shame, they forced us).

EDIT either google sucks or there is no trace, I'll keep looking though

[NiHaoMike]

Well, it's obviously true.  I can't recall ever seeing a neon glow lamp in a desktop...   

I have seen one a long time ago, as the power on indicator, in a case that had a 386 sticker but had been upgraded to a Pentium Pro at some point. The strangest part was it it was a blue neon bulb, which isn't quite that strange when you remember that was before blue LEDs were commercialized.

[spudboy488]

OK this one is right from the cover of the last Electronics Design magazine. No one needs stinking ground reference when doing differential "A-B" on a conventional scope.

I've spent way more time on this than I should have but I just don't see the issue here. I've held 2 probes on a board before. Please fill me in so I can sleep tonight.