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[metrologist]

Hi Guys, twelve bucks EMI probe set, because why not?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/133916878512

[richnormand]

@metrologist
I have the same set. They work very well coupled to a spectrum analyser that has a decent sensitivity. The two middle loops are the most useful.
I would suggest adding a cheap broadband amplifier (powered from a 9V battery) to complete your RF snooping set.

All measurements are relative but useful as go/no go indicators.
That is how I identified a bad coupling capacitor on my R&S CMU200 and similarly a dead sweep generator oscillator on a Hitachi electron microscope.

Have fun with it. Also note that Dave did a video about a similar setup a few years back.

[RAPo]

A set of Xcelite nut drivers

[metrologist]

@metrologist
I have the same set. They work very well coupled to a spectrum analyser that has a decent sensitivity. The two middle loops are the most useful.
I would suggest adding a cheap broadband amplifier (powered from a 9V battery) to complete your RF snooping set.

All measurements are relative but useful as go/no go indicators.
That is how I identified a bad coupling capacitor on my R&S CMU200 and similarly a dead sweep generator oscillator on a Hitachi electron microscope.

Have fun with it. Also note that Dave did a video about a similar setup a few years back.

I can't wait, already got my tongue kiltered. Made a post with a few videos on the topic...

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/beginners/emi-near-field-probing-basics/?topicseen

...and had ordered the attached as well...

[RAPo]

Just did a bid on the local ebay on an HP3310A and it is accepted. For 50Eu I'm really glad.

[bingo600]

Just bought a HP 87106A Coaxial Switch , locally for $20 
6 Port SP6T - SMA Conn - DC - 4GHz

Now what to do with it ......

/Bingo

[fkfaraz]

A Metcal MX-500p-21 with the metcal mx ds1.
still haven't decided on the air compressor for it. Also still looking for handle, tips etc.

does anybody had a spare mx-H1-Av or other metcal accessories they want to part away with, plz DM me...

[Bud]

Just bought a HP 87106A Coaxial Switch , locally for $20 
6 Port SP6T - SMA Conn - DC - 4GHz

Now what to do with it ......

/Bingo

1.Put it on top shelf
2. 10 years after- get it from the top shelf and sell for $10
 

[DiTBho]

Japanese Casio FC-1000 Financial Consultant pocket calculator.
Dunno why, what, how, but it comes with a Soviet user manual! 
(what? well, "printed in 1989", so technically it was Soviet press)

Anyway, now, with of an Hitachi-Casio financial pocket calculator in my pocket ...
... I look like a serious boy.

So - I was told - 

[thm_w]

A set of Xcelite nut drivers

Let me know if those things still smell foul.
I have a 10+ year old set and the smell has never gone away.

[SiliconWizard]

Japanese Casio FC-1000 Financial Consultant pocket calculator.

Why though?

[vk6zgo]

A set of Xcelite nut drivers

Let me know if those things still smell foul.
I have a 10+ year old set and the smell has never gone away.

My old work had a 30 year old set that still smelled like "Chunder" (vomit).

[Ed.Kloonk]

Just bought a HP 87106A Coaxial Switch , locally for $20 
6 Port SP6T - SMA Conn - DC - 4GHz

Now what to do with it ......

/Bingo

Use it for an antenna array. Hook the output up to an SDR.

Show us inside.

[armandine2]

just bought another Landau and Lifshitz - although I was hoping for a good copy I got the expected unreadable Amazon reprint. Luckily the formulas are readable with the help of online pdf versions.

[RAPo]

In the aftermath of a brain infarct, I lost my ability to smell, so it seems I'm in a position of happy oblivion.

Asking my PIRL: indeed, a very strange smell, not exactly Chunder but more human excrements.
But luckily not Selenoacetone ()

A set of Xcelite nut drivers

Let me know if those things still smell foul.
I have a 10+ year old set and the smell has never gone away.

My old work had a 30 year old set that still smelled like "Chunder" (vomit).

[RAPo]

A PM5171 (an amplifier / logarithmic converter from philips) is on its way to my home, together with a power supply "BED 002" (both DC and AC power supply from the tube era).

[Sredni]

I bought one of those Logic IC kits on Amazon. 40 chips in DIL packages of the 74 family, for less than 14 bucks (Amazon's prices have gone thru the roof, even for chinesium chips).
I am a sucker and I wanted to see what **** chinesium is in there

[McBryce]

I bought one of those Logic IC kits on Amazon. 40 chips in DIL packages of the 74 family, for less than 14 bucks (Amazon's prices have gone thru the roof, even for chinesium chips).
I am a sucker and I wanted to see what **** chinesium is in there

What's a Logic IC Kit? An assortment of 74 series IC's?

McBryce.

[Sredni]

Yep, something like this
https://www.amazon.com/Swpeet-Integrated-Circuit-Assortment-Precision/dp/B08JTY294J

74LS00,74LS02,74LS04,74LS08,74LS32,74LS47,74LS86,74LS90,74LS138,74LS245, 74HC00, 74HC02, 74HC04 , 74HC08,74HC14,74HC32,74HC138,74HC164,74HC165,74HC595

(not the one I bought, this is the first I've found with a cursory search. They are almost all alike in their assortment, but getting 'actually functioning' components is a matter of chance.

[xrunner]

Bought a Mileseey TR120 IR Camera. Seems to be fine for my needs. Some pics attached. Three IR shots of my cat Maxim, a 3D printer bed set to 50 C, and an outside wall where you can see the studs. Three shots of the device. One pointed at a TV with a Roku sitting at the base. Battery life is very good.

More info here -

https://www.mileseeytools.com/products/infrared-thermal-imaging-camera-tr120

[RAPo]

A PM5171 (an amplifier / logarithmic converter from philips) is on its way to my home, together with a power supply "BED 002" (both DC and AC power supply from the tube era).

Both arrived today. Together with an unexpected Phillips PM9335 1:1 probe

[RAPo]

Just did a bid on the local ebay on an HP3310A and it is accepted. For 50Eu I'm really glad.

And here its. Why would one need a 0.0001Hz pulse?

[RAPo]

And a very pristine EA113 AVO meter arrived.

[beanflying]

And a very pristine EA113 AVO meter arrived.

Just in case you or others haven't seen it there is a Test Equipment Scores thread here too  https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/list-your-test-equipment-score-here!/

[beanflying]

Mini Splurge, the grips on my few decades old Pliers were failing and the only larger set of side cutters I own are steel handled that I inherited so Knipex was the decision