The Official 2015 Christmas Pressies Thread

[Shock]

Guess what? It's Christmas time! In the festive spirit of receiving, post your electronics related pressies for 2015. I've started a little earlier this year as it looks like some of us are already keenly into the festive spirit.

My presents have been passed to Santa for delivery, so I'll get the ball rolling...

4 Tektronix P5205 100MHz High Voltage Differential Probes (for repair)
2 Keithley 179 TRMS multimeters
5 3.5kW 16 Ohm dummy loads
2 Replacement Variac brushes
1 IET 510a micro ohm meter
5 Fluke 27/FM multimeters (couldn't resist getting some more)

By the look of this haul, you would think Santa loves me, but he knows I go without during most of the year to pickup bargains, so it all evens out.

Merry Christmas!

[liquibyte]

Well, a generous forum member here gave me this to have just in time for Christmas so I guess that counts.  Tek 7603 that has the 7B85 timebase and the 7A86 amplifier plugins and works 100% as far as I can tell so far.  Thanks Vernon, it's already getting good use.

[Shock]

Sweet, this video might interest you.

[liquibyte]

Sweet, this video might interest you.

That was interesting.  He mentioned the website http://www.vintagetek.org/ which I haven't gone through yet but I plan on as I get time.  I'd never run across this one in my travels so I'm sure it will enable quite a few hours of time wasting and envy.

I popped the cover off just to have a quick look at the guts and things were really clean inside so I plan on cleaning up the outside as best as I'm able so it looks good.  Being that this was a rack mount unit, it's got the usual scuffs on the case so there's nothing I can do there but I plan on racking it again once I can get something it fits.  This has to be one of the most generous things I've ever gotten from someone and I'll have to say that I'm extremely grateful for the stuff I got.  I did get a few other things while I was there that he wanted to get out of the way so I ended up with a Tek 453 that needs repair, a Pace de-soldering station that kind of looks like the one in the pic but needs major cleaning and restoring, a Dick Smith pre-amp kit that I know I'm going to have fun putting together, and a big magnifier lamp that I immediately put to use.

Christmas is actually here early but I don't mind at all.

[grifftech]

Scope

[Stonent]

[Shock]

I've been getting into the fruit mince tarts for over a month now, at the supermarket I was told "oh yeah old people love those and can't wait for them to come out".

[Deathwish]

I've been getting into the fruit mince tarts for over a month now, at the supermarket I was told "oh yeah old people love those and can't wait for them to come out".

Guilty 

[tautech]

Bought prezzies to myself today, T handle Torx driver set and T handle nut drivers. Been wanting both these for ages.  Thanks Santa. (Garry's mate)
Gave a possum in a tree a prezzie too tonight, a .22 bullet.    Noisey bastard.

[Deathwish]

Bought prezzies to myself today, T handle Torx driver set and T handle nut drivers. Been wanting both these for ages.  Thanks Santa. (Garry's mate)
Gave a possum in a tree a prezzie too tonight, a .22 bullet.    Noisey bastard.

Santa is not my mate, philistine. Being serious , I can't do the put it away for xmas thing, if I buy something I have to play with it, if its broke I need to fix it and it never see's the inside of wrapping paper.

[agronaught]

Just received my Christmas ds815-tg...  I'm happy with that for now.

Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

[Mechanical Menace]

I treat my PC to some more RAM and upgraded from a 690 to a 980 ti. After getting it home my GF started sulking and pointed out how it's a good thing I already have a SLI MoBo as she got me the same card. Unfortunately though I mainly use Linux so SLI is pretty useless most of the time, but I am an avid gamer so keep a Windows install around for the games that don't run on Linux.

On the electronics side I'm thinking of finally getting a DSO or a better logic analyser. Still not sure if I'd actually get any real use out of a scope apart from as equipment porn though.

[Halvmand]

My only wish so far is Art Of Electronics 3.rd ed. Though my mom is trying to push me in to a new pair of shoes.

[Shock]

Santa just left a LCD TV out on the curbside, panel looks ok.

[Shock]

Had a quick look today it's a 32" 720p panel 3-5 years old, has all the inputs including HDMI, better than nothing Santa. I've notice the rate of LCDs being thrown out seems to be steadily increasing.

[Shock]

For those of us in Australia, Dick Smith (consumer electronics chain) has just had a pretty large (in store only) sale going on over the last few days. Clearance LCDs TVs for 70% off retail, as well as cameras, laptops etc.

There is a rumor that they may have a further large sale tomorrow (Saturday, December 5th), can't promise anything, but on Tuesday and Wednesday people were standing outside the stores at opening time and bagging as much of the cheap stuff they could to resell. So if you are going to try and snap up a bargain I would suggest getting in quick.

There seems to have a been a bit of a trick in getting the discounts so far, as often staff haven't updated the stickers or know whats going on, you need to ensure they actually properly scan in the item. Some lucky punters this week walked away with 65" LCD TV's ($3000) for a few hundred.

[Richard Crowley]

I have several things pending, perhaps some of them in time to put under the Christmas tree..


PSDR - Pocket HF SDR Transceiver with VNA and GPS  (Kickstarter)


Artiphon 1 - 21st century multi-mode MIDI controller/instrument  (Kickstarter)


Glowforge (thanks to the tip here in EEVblog)

[Shock]

I have several things pending, perhaps some of them in time to put under the Christmas tree..

You are going to be making new friends with that printer for sure

[sycho123321]

My only wish so far is Art Of Electronics 3.rd ed. Though my mom is trying to push me in to a new pair of shoes.

Same here! Well minus the shoes 

[TiN]

L&N 4-decade resistor for resistor-nut sickness therapy
VPG 10K+10K hermetic resistor network
Ultravolt -1000VDC 0.8mA DC/DC

That's it for Xmas.

[DTJ]

Christmas pressy for the engineer / techo

http://www.gizmag.com/voltmeter-alarm-clock/40685/

[miguelvp]

Christmas pressy for the engineer / techo

http://www.gizmag.com/voltmeter-alarm-clock/40685/

That's actually very clever and easy to make.

Edit: Ouch at the price and timeline

The Voltmeter Alarm Clock is now available for preorder, priced at US$169 without the back light or $189 with it. That said, a 30 percent discount is currently being offered. Shipping is scheduled to start next April or May.

Cheaper and faster to make your own

[zapta]

Not electronics but still technical. Wanted for long time to learn lock picking so am getting this. 

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B014PETCMI

[Shock]

Just received a package, exciting! Had a couple of things I wasn't expecting, a free Fluke 8025B and Tenma Counter, still waiting for the rest to show up.

[Shock]

Looks like the Fluke 8025B is ex Marine Corps from the calibration seal (last calibration 2012), it's been possibly damaged on the continuity and resistance functions, still has the 3 original fuses plus a spare inside, to the repair heap it goes.