What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!

[Ice-Tea]

To flip them on ebay, I suppose ;-)

Yup! **points at signature**
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https://www.ebay.de/itm/145949587311
https://www.ebay.de/itm/145949571194

USA Ebay doesn't look like it lists them.  Is there a "don't ship out of Europe" option so it doesn't show up over seas?

I normally tick the box to enable worldwide shipping (but without listed cost outside the EU). Sometimes, I'm not given that option. I have no idea why. I enabled the US for these items now, I'd be happy to ship anywere but..., well, eBay.

[eutectique]

I normally tick the box to enable worldwide shipping (but without listed cost outside the EU).

Are you registered for German VAT by any chance ? Do you use one-stop shop ?

[exe]

Not my purchase, but I had ordered it, our new Lecroy Scope..
2.5Ghz, 1Gpts, 20GSa/s, 12bit.

Huh, even if I trade in all my equipment, that won't help much to buy this beast :cry:. Unless someone crazy wants to swap it for my micsig TO1104...

[Ice-Tea]

I normally tick the box to enable worldwide shipping (but without listed cost outside the EU).

Are you registered for German VAT by any chance ? Do you use one-stop shop ?

I pay OSS, yes... Why?

[eutectique]

I pay OSS, yes... Why?

Ebay has recently blocked my sales in Germany, pushing me to register for German VAT, though my income is below 10k threshold. I am trying to find a way to rectify this.

Oh, and also banned me from selling in Germany because I am not registered in Verpackungsregister. But that one is easy to fix.

[Furna]

A fantastic 25bucks 512GB SSD to replace the SSD on my 10 years old ThinkPad W540
It runs Win11; I was on the Windows Insider channel and it ugraded by himself from Win10 to Win11 without issues even if the TPM is 1.0 

[Zucca]

yeah 2.5" SSD are cheap today.
Win11 is the reason I (finally) switched to Linux.

[Martin72]

It looks nice. Only comment, are you used to having the horizontal controls on the left and the vertical controls on the right?

(To me it would be like driving on the other side of the road ;-)  )

All Lecroy have it that way, our Siglents are more "difficult" for me to get used to because it is the other way around with them.

[Furna]

yeah 2.5" SSD are cheap today.
Win11 is the reason I (finally) switched to Linux.

Can you belive I walked the opposite path?
I have been using Debian professionaly for servers and desktop and when I switched to a different job I did the mistake to try different distros other than Debian for my personal computers.
The result was deep depression and the choice to try Windows ... I currently have a dual boot Win10/Ubuntu on my daily PC (the ThinkPad is seldom used) and also Ubuntu is very disappointing as of today.
I guess sometime soon I will switch back to Debian ...

[armandine2]

...not exactly in the Lecroy league, but might be fun  ...DSO138 scope

[but, less expensive assembled]

[Zucca]

Can you belive I walked the opposite path?
...
I guess sometime soon I will switch back to Debian ...

Funny, oh yes Debian is welcome in my home. I still have a lot to learn! Will try Linux Mint soon as daily driver.

[smaultre]

I'm starting to collect ~sub-10ps hardware, HP54120B (parts)    arrives soon !
And i bought a set of TDS8000, DSA8200, CSA8000B (parts) just for fun  !

[wkb]

I'm starting to collect ~sub-10ps hardware, HP54120B (parts)    arrives soon !
And i bought a set of TDS8000, DSA8200, CSA8000B (parts) just for fun  !

Be careful.. you are entering... (see picture)

[smaultre]

Be careful.. you are entering... (see picture)

I'm already here
Exploring Norton Symantec Ghost, PQIBrowser and other 20 years old soft to install drivers ...

HP54120B

I spend 2 hours  couse that Ch4 "durty trick"

[Haenk]

In today: Received a couple of japanese transistor data/replacement books. And a nice preheater.
Yesterday: A Yamaha Reciever containing no less than 10x PCM1704, for parts. They surely didn't cheap out there... Plus some stuff for an upcoming project.

[BennoG]

Keithley 2001M for parts (actually for repair)
Repair was a no-brainer the power resistor at the AC input measurement (auto switch 110V us and 230V eu) had a broken wire.
Replaced it with a home made 470 resistor 10W.
And the unit worked (fabrication date 2014 so no old unit at all)
Calibration looked ok no extensive testing done.  about 300uV of at 10V input.

nice addition to my addiction.

Benno

[DaneLaw]

A Chinese gadget--
Taken the family & friends with fondness '
Based on a triggered electromagnet.

[ZGoode]

Extremely good deal today.  I purchased 65 LiFePo4 26650 cells on Newark today for just over $150.  I was going to buy the cells on Digikey originally, but I decided to look around and found some from the same manufacturer with similar specifications for literally 2/3 cheaper.  Saved me over 200$!!!

[thm_w]

Extremely good deal today.  I purchased 65 LiFePo4 26650 cells on Newark today for just over $150.  I was going to buy the cells on Digikey originally, but I decided to look around and found some from the same manufacturer with similar specifications for literally 2/3 cheaper.  Saved me over 200$!!!

I don't think digikey or newark sell lifepo4 cells, link?

[ZGoode]

Extremely good deal today.  I purchased 65 LiFePo4 26650 cells on Newark today for just over $150.  I was going to buy the cells on Digikey originally, but I decided to look around and found some from the same manufacturer with similar specifications for literally 2/3 cheaper.  Saved me over 200$!!!

I don't think digikey or newark sell lifepo4 cells, link?

https://www.newark.com/zeus-battery-products/pcifr26650-3300/rechargeable-battery-3-2v-3-3ah/dp/13AJ3002.  Here's the ones on Newark I bought.  I bought all they had left of this part #.  I believe the newer one is slightly more capacity, but for the price this ended up working out significantly better for me.  Technically they are obsolete now I guess, but as long as they aren't super old and depleted should not be a problem.  I'm guessing the cells were probably manufactured within the past year or two since Digikey only recently obsoleted them.  Especially since Newark is a reputable supplier, if there are problems they always strive to make things right.
Here are the ones on digikey I was originally looking at.  https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/zeus-battery-products/PCIFR26650-3400/16028322

[iJoseph2]

TDK Lambda EMS 40-25 power supply

More details here..

https://www.sglabs.it/en/product.php?s=lambda-ems-30-33-&id=1945

[apetersw]

A Zeiss Stemi 2000 with 0.63x barlow lense, 10x/23 okulars, Zeiss CL 6000 LED light source, ring light and 2.5x camera adapter mounted.
With 155mm free working distance. I am happy working through the okulars, however the pictures on the camera could be of higher resolution.

[Martin72]

LTZ1000 Reference boards...

[deadlylover]

I bought an LG C4 42" OLED TV last weekend for casual computer desktop use, I hit 100 power on hours so time to stick the ol' spectro on it to calibrate the white point.

The D65 white point is x=0.3127, y=0.3290 and yeah the TV controls aren't quite fine enough, being off by xy 0.0001 does bother me hahaha. Throwing it into a calculator the dE 1976 is 0.10 so I can live with that.

I did a bunch of consecutive readings just to see the repeatability and I have new found respect for the Minolta CS-1000A I got for cheap a few months ago. What an absolutely marvellous instrument, the repeatability spec is xy 0.0002 and it seems to meet it measuring a TV let alone a stable standard illuminant. 

[artag]

A Silent 700, model 735.
Vintage computer fair at the Cambridge Centre for Computing History, UK.

Did all models use the same width paper ? I can see paper available for the later SIlent Writer but not sure if it will fit. The paper in this (there's most of a roll is a tiny bit under US letter width at 214mm / 7 15/32"

Also a(nother) Microwriter Agenda, this time with spreadsheet ROM, RAM pack and power supply.

It was a pretty good day. Brought back memories of the early richly-stocked computer fairs of the '80s, before the PC made them all boring. Excellent venue.