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[Ground_Loop]

I got this HP 8664 off Ebay for $400.  Seems to work perfectly.

[Cubdriver]

I got this off Ebay for $400.  Seems to work perfectly.

Nice score!  Mine needed a tantalum cap in one of the modules.  That thing's a backbreaker, huh?

-Pat

[Ground_Loop]

Crazy heavy. I thought it was going to collapse my bench.  It doesn't help that it is sitting under my HP 8567 Spectrum Analyzer which I had to lift up first.

[shakalnokturn]

Enertec / Solartron 7050, seems to work, need to check calibration.
Keithley 174 with battery option that hasn't been removed since 1978-ish (Ouch!) needs repair...

[blackbird]

A Micsig DP10013 Differential probe.

Was about € 120 shipped.

[beanflying]

$20 worth of assorted 3-12mm Springs as my saved and accumulated ones over time was depleted to being useless. Only needed the 3mm ones but the rest just because eBay auction: #132915825317

[25 CPS]

I got this HP 8664 off Ebay for $400.  Seems to work perfectly.

Cool!  Is yours an HP 8664A or B?

Nice score!  Mine needed a tantalum cap in one of the modules.  That thing's a backbreaker, huh?

-Pat

Good grief yes.  I think the two person lift sticker may have actually been factory applied.  When I built my present work area, I put some gouges into one of the work surfaces wrestling it into place by myself because I nobody was available to help me with it and I pulled some muscles pretty badly doing it to the point I was beginning to worry if I'd given myself a hernia but thankfully not.

[Bud]

But now you are set " 'till the day comes along when you catch the Sun"   

[Cubdriver]

Nice score!  Mine needed a tantalum cap in one of the modules.  That thing's a backbreaker, huh?

-Pat

Good grief yes.  I think the two person lift sticker may have actually been factory applied. When I built my present work area, I put some gouges into one of the work surfaces wrestling it into place by myself because I nobody was available to help me with it and I pulled some muscles pretty badly doing it to the point I was beginning to worry if I'd given myself a hernia but thankfully not.

That may well be - I just looked and mine has one too.  It was great fun wrestling with it to get the sleeve cabinet off of it.

-Pat

[BU508A]

I've bought a DER EE DE-5000 handheld LCR meter for U$122 + 14U$ shipping:



Some  AD587KN + AD7535JN + 5x OP07CJ



Some USB type A to USB micro type B adapter cable:



Some SMA PCB connectors:



And a RF Demo Kit for the NanoVNA:



I think, most of them will arrive after XMAS. But that's how it is. 

[Terry01]

I've bought a DER EE DE-5000 handheld LCR meter for U$122 + 14U$ shipping:



Some  AD587KN + AD7535JN + 5x OP07CJ



Some USB type A to USB micro type B adapter cable:



Some SMA PCB connectors:



And a RF Demo Kit for the NanoVNA:



I think, most of them will arrive after XMAS. But that's how it is. 

Nice haul! 

[vk6zgo]

I got this HP 8664 off Ebay for $400.  Seems to work perfectly.

Cool!  Is yours an HP 8664A or B?

Nice score!  Mine needed a tantalum cap in one of the modules.  That thing's a backbreaker, huh?

-Pat

Good grief yes.  I think the two person lift sticker may have actually been factory applied.  When I built my present work area, I put some gouges into one of the work surfaces wrestling it into place by myself because I nobody was available to help me with it and I pulled some muscles pretty badly doing it to the point I was beginning to worry if I'd given myself a hernia but thankfully not.

Back in the day, where I worked, we travelled all over the State doing routine testing on TV sites.
Amongst the pile of equipment we took with us was a R&S "Polyskop SWOB" (one of several at the Depot), which was seriously heavy & had a similar sticker.

We would get a courier service to take things to airfreight & would travel on the  same plane.
On several occasions,the Polyskop would arrive at the other end inoperative & making ominous rattling noises.

It turned out someone, either in the airline ground crew, or the couriers would read the sticker, grunt "bloody wimps" & pick it up by themselves.
You could do so, but putting it down, they would invariably, drop it the last 150mm (6"), causing the heavy bits inside to break loose from their mountings & fall through the fragile bits!

[tooki]

I got this HP 8664 off Ebay for $400.  Seems to work perfectly.

Cool!  Is yours an HP 8664A or B?

Nice score!  Mine needed a tantalum cap in one of the modules.  That thing's a backbreaker, huh?

-Pat

Good grief yes.  I think the two person lift sticker may have actually been factory applied.  When I built my present work area, I put some gouges into one of the work surfaces wrestling it into place by myself because I nobody was available to help me with it and I pulled some muscles pretty badly doing it to the point I was beginning to worry if I'd given myself a hernia but thankfully not.

Back in the day, where I worked, we travelled all over the State doing routine testing on TV sites.
Amongst the pile of equipment we took with us was a R&S "Polyskop SWOB" (one of several at the Depot), which was seriously heavy & had a similar sticker.

We would get a courier service to take things to airfreight & would travel on the  same plane.
On several occasions,the Polyskop would arrive at the other end inoperative & making ominous rattling noises.

It turned out someone, either in the airline ground crew, or the couriers would read the sticker, grunt "bloody wimps" & pick it up by themselves.
You could do so, but putting it down, they would invariably, drop it the last 150mm (6"), causing the heavy bits inside to break loose from their mountings & fall through the fragile bits!

So the lesson for equipment manufacturers, then, would be to keep delicate products out of the “danger zone” of weight that is too heavy to be carefully lifted by hand, but too light to unambiguously require assistance from another person or equipment. Perhaps load it down with another 10-15kg of steel plates, or make the housing more robust by that amount! :p

[vk6zgo]

I got this HP 8664 off Ebay for $400.  Seems to work perfectly.

Cool!  Is yours an HP 8664A or B?

Nice score!  Mine needed a tantalum cap in one of the modules.  That thing's a backbreaker, huh?

-Pat

Good grief yes.  I think the two person lift sticker may have actually been factory applied.  When I built my present work area, I put some gouges into one of the work surfaces wrestling it into place by myself because I nobody was available to help me with it and I pulled some muscles pretty badly doing it to the point I was beginning to worry if I'd given myself a hernia but thankfully not.

Back in the day, where I worked, we travelled all over the State doing routine testing on TV sites.
Amongst the pile of equipment we took with us was a R&S "Polyskop SWOB" (one of several at the Depot), which was seriously heavy & had a similar sticker.

We would get a courier service to take things to airfreight & would travel on the  same plane.
On several occasions,the Polyskop would arrive at the other end inoperative & making ominous rattling noises.

It turned out someone, either in the airline ground crew, or the couriers would read the sticker, grunt "bloody wimps" & pick it up by themselves.
You could do so, but putting it down, they would invariably, drop it the last 150mm (6"), causing the heavy bits inside to break loose from their mountings & fall through the fragile bits!

So the lesson for equipment manufacturers, then, would be to keep delicate products out of the “danger zone” of weight that is too heavy to be carefully lifted by hand, but too light to unambiguously require assistance from another person or equipment. Perhaps load it down with another 10-15kg of steel plates, or make the housing more robust by that amount! :p

The housing of the Polyskop was very robust.
Perhaps the mounting of the big bits should have been better .
Or maybe morons shouldn't ignore warning stickers!

It happens in the best of families, though.
We received two 5kW Broadcast transmitters from Harris, where  one was, luckily, OK, but in the other one, a large power transformer had broken loose & rampaged through the thing smashing the more fragile parts.

Such things are normally sent with the heavy bits separately packaged, but for some reason, Harris decided to diverge from their usual practice, & sent the complete made up units.

It was a good thing only one unit was damaged, as we had one good one to compare with as we painstakingly rebuilt the bad one.

[Kilrah]

as we painstakingly rebuilt the bad one.

Really? Should have been "fix your shit and send us a new one stat"

[SmokeyTheElectrician]

a Rigol 1054z

$230.39 in the store at my local uCenter

[Falkra]

Good price. 

[Terry01]

I agree! You got a decent deal there my friend 

[vk6zgo]

as we painstakingly rebuilt the bad one.

Really? Should have been "fix your shit and send us a new one stat"

Had it been NEC, they would have sent one immediately, but Harris would have spent the next six months bitching & scratching their bums!

The best service we ever had like that, was back in 1968, when we had a transmitter fire at a remote Northwest town, which killed both transmitters.
AWA put a new transmitter on a chartered plane & flew it straight there.
(It turned out the fire wasn't the fault of their Tx, but it was a good example of customer service)

One original Tx looked like a huge version of a burnt tin can from a campfire, but we rewired the other, & it was still in service 20 years later.

[beanflying]

As the Idiot box viewing really goes to poo and the level of family 'discussions' rises to   

I have preemptively prepared thanks to Steam and brought Doom and Wolfenstein The New Colossus for $20 AU pesos in a two pack deal. 60GB for Doom would want to be a touch better than the original I played way back when.... Might reinforce and put a lock on the inside of my shack door to keep the family out too.

Merry Christmas and Bah Humbug to all. 

[tautech]

As the Idiot box viewing really goes to poo and the level of family 'discussions' rises to   

I have preemptively prepared thanks to Steam and brought Doom and Wolfenstein The New Colossus for $20 AU pesos in a two pack deal. 60GB for Doom would want to be a touch better than the original I played way back when.... Might reinforce and put a lock on the inside of my shack door to keep the family out too.

Merry Christmas and Bah Humbug to all. 

Back at ya ! 
PS, your little gift of good tidings from NZ won't be too far away. 

[SmokeyTheElectrician]

I agree! You got a decent deal there my friend 

Good price. 

I found the caveat in the deal,
the calibration just expired.

Which is fine for my bench.
I doubt my old GW Instek GOS-635G
was ever calibrated outside the factory
and it has served me well for the past
couple years ( bought used from someone
of whom I believed obtained it from
someone else who bought surplus from
when ITT Tech closed up shop ).

It must have gotten lost and been
laying around for 12 or 15 months
and they just wanted to clear it out.

If anyone is in the market for a great deal on a Rigol 1054z,
uCenter's web store was showing they still have a handful
or two scattered around the USA and last I checked they
were down to 184.31.
   ( store pick up only -- 1@Duluth-GA, 2@Rockville-MD, 2@Westbury-NY,
      1@Brooklyn-NY, and 3@Yonkers-NY )
By the time they sell the last one, someone is going to walk away
with a 1054z for something entirely ridiculous, like $35.

Cheers.

[Terry01]

Even with the cal just out that's still a great deal. Like you say it'll be just fine for your bench and the self cal feature lets you know it's near enough right?

[technix]

This is non technical... well maybe slightly technical: I bought a drawing of some anime characters to use as a curtain on my server rack. This piece of printed cloth features the two heroines of the game and the anime White Album 2.

[Black Phoenix]

This is non technical... well maybe slightly technical: I bought a drawing of some anime characters to use as a curtain on my server rack. This piece of printed cloth features the two heroines of the game and the anime White Album 2.
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Good story all around, a little sad to be sincere, if you only see the Anime (good adaptation from the base source, not very common). Although the adaptation is only the first part of the trilogy. You had to play the White Album 2: Extended Edition to get the Introductory Chapter (Anime related), the Closing Chapter and the Epilogue, that was released in 2018. I only played back in 2014, so I only got the Introductory and Closing chapters.

Between White Album and White Album 2 I really don't know who's to choose as the best one, but I prefer the story from White Album.

But let's end the offtopic.