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Re: What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!
« Reply #6925 on: August 05, 2018, 10:58:58 pm »
Cool. Sounds like TiN and Carlson are going to have one high tech home, soon.
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Re: What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!
« Reply #6926 on: August 05, 2018, 11:55:51 pm »
That looks just like the chairs at NASA Mission Control.

That reminds me of when NASA closed their Carnarvon tracking station.
Serendipitously, Radio Australia was looking for a new site to replace the badly damaged Cox Peninsula
Station following Cyclone Tracy, & took over the building & surrounding property.

NASA took most of their stuff away, but Telecom Australia, who operated the Radio stations for RA managed to score several of the very nice chairs, which had pride of place in their control room.

There were a number of unused offices, which looked like their previous occupants had just walked away one day.
There were comments about various missions written with chinagraph pencils on some of the glass partitions.
Really quite eerie!

 

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« Reply #6927 on: August 06, 2018, 07:35:03 am »
Bunch of 400 Volt caps, used but all cap's capacitance are tested by my self, brand new is about > 100 bucks a pop, but these are really dirt cheap, about 2 bucks, couldn't stand it not grab them.  :palm:

Total capacitance, 22.200 uF (0.0222 mF) 400 Volt caps.

As usual, shot with TO-220 as reference size.
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Re: What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!
« Reply #6928 on: August 06, 2018, 10:17:52 pm »
BravoV -- You SUCK!  :-+
 

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« Reply #6929 on: August 07, 2018, 03:17:38 am »
Those are huuuge!
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« Reply #6930 on: August 07, 2018, 04:12:51 am »
BravoV -- You SUCK!  :-+

LOL ... thanks. Worst is I still don't have any plan what to do with them, an impulse purchase.  :palm:


Those are huuuge!

They are, age probably a decade or more, good thing is average capacitance still >= +10% within spec, guess they're all still pretty good as these are well known brand and heavy duty industrial grade caps.

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Re: What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!
« Reply #6931 on: August 07, 2018, 04:46:18 am »
Bought myself a Fluke PM6666. I can't exactly say why I bought it (as I already have a counter) other than it was cheap.
It's in pretty good condition though, seems to be fully working and has two options installed (PM9604: GPIB and PM9607: high stability time base).
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« Reply #6932 on: August 07, 2018, 05:51:17 am »
Sometimes it's fun to get stuff just for the chance to see what it's like and how it works, especially if you get it at a really good price. Then, put it on eBay. It's like a free eval. ;D
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Re: What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!
« Reply #6933 on: August 07, 2018, 07:58:34 am »
Sometimes it's fun to get stuff just for the chance to see what it's like and how it works, especially if you get it at a really good price. Then, put it on eBay. It's like a free eval. ;D
Amen to that, I do it often but there is a often a very long pause between getting it and going on Ebay which is normally prompted by the imminent arrival of something else evaluate  :-DD
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Re: What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!
« Reply #6934 on: August 08, 2018, 12:58:10 am »
Needed something for TEA since my last acquisition dates back to may this year, so
I bought my second HP 6114A precision power supply on the bay.   :)

My bid was the second and last one. Wish the other bidder never had bid -cost me $10 plus over the starting price.

Price was $45 but don't ask for the shipping rate from the US over to Europe.    |O

Nevertheless, it's newer than my first on (still in repair) and seems to work fine.   :-+
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« Reply #6935 on: August 08, 2018, 03:02:40 am »
Ah, so you got that one. (I had to say it. Forum members are starting to expect it. :-DD)

It's a nice one, too. If it's any consolation, the seller wanted $66 just for domestic shipping, which is a bit much. Hopefully, the international shipping wasn't excessive compared to the norm (which, I know, isn't cheap to begin with).

And, no, I wasn't the one who made you pay $10 over the starting price. ;)
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Re: What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!
« Reply #6936 on: August 08, 2018, 07:00:05 am »
Or me, but seriously those US prices at times are do darned attractive. Many times I have almost hit the BIN button but been back to reality by those shipping and duty costs, many times doubling or tripling the cost.
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« Reply #6937 on: August 08, 2018, 09:45:42 am »
For the express purpose of experimentation, a MiNi70 MOSFET HF PA kit from China, interestingly the eBay listing shows IRF520 devices but the MOSFETs supplied have had the numbers ground off.

All the SMD parts are already soldered, looks like they've done a decent job of it but I'll have it under the magnifier this evening.

No, I've no idea who Bobbi2 is either

« Last Edit: August 08, 2018, 09:51:58 am by CJay »
 
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« Reply #6938 on: August 08, 2018, 01:13:24 pm »
For the express purpose of experimentation, a MiNi70 MOSFET HF PA kit from China, interestingly the eBay listing shows IRF520 devices but the MOSFETs supplied have had the numbers ground off.

All the SMD parts are already soldered, looks like they've done a decent job of it but I'll have it under the magnifier this evening.

No, I've no idea who Bobbi2 is either

this may be of interest

https://forums.qrz.com/index.php?threads/minipa100-100w-hf-1-8-54mhz-amplifier-kit.570350/
 

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Re: What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!
« Reply #6939 on: August 08, 2018, 01:46:49 pm »
this may be of interest

https://forums.qrz.com/index.php?threads/minipa100-100w-hf-1-8-54mhz-amplifier-kit.570350/

That's interesting, same board but it uses a 'proper' RF MOSFET salvaged from cellphone gear, I think an MRF9120.

I might have my fun with the IRF switching FETs (I'll try a few other types as well) and then see if I can find an MRF9120 to play with.

And, perhaps, I've got a few MRF175s that might fit as well.
 

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Re: What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!
« Reply #6940 on: August 08, 2018, 04:05:28 pm »
Ah, so you got that one. (I had to say it. Forum members are starting to expect it. :-DD)

 :o         ...        ;)


It's a nice one, too. If it's any consolation, the seller wanted $66 just for domestic shipping, which is a bit much. Hopefully, the international shipping wasn't excessive compared to the norm (which, I know, isn't cheap to begin with).

Oh, that's really a bit much considering the around-half-of-the-world rate is at ~$96.   :palm:

Or me, but seriously those US prices at times are do darned attractive. Many times I have almost hit the BIN button but been back to reality by those shipping and duty costs, many times doubling or tripling the cost.

You hit the point, specmaster.
If shipping+customs would be in the region of intra-Europe shipping rates my TEA would definitely be worse.   :scared:

Regarding this second 6114A I searched my ebay history for 6114As being sold in European countries before hitting the button.
Result was: Even with that shipping rate plus customs it's less than the 6114As sold in Europe.
How could I resist..?   :)


And, no, I wasn't the one who made you pay $10 over the starting price. ;)

Good you mentioned that.   :-DD
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Re: What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!
« Reply #6941 on: August 08, 2018, 04:09:28 pm »
I'd probably complain to the seller about those being "not as described", just to see what happened.  >:D

For the express purpose of experimentation, a MiNi70 MOSFET HF PA kit from China, interestingly the eBay listing shows IRF520 devices but the MOSFETs supplied have had the numbers ground off.
 

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Re: What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!
« Reply #6942 on: August 08, 2018, 05:48:13 pm »
2 500M Ohm 15KV resistors, DIP for size:

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Re: What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!
« Reply #6943 on: August 08, 2018, 08:11:11 pm »
[Topper mode on]

Now this is a proper HV resistor:


Didn't buy it, it was sitting in a box full of stuff.
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Re: What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!
« Reply #6944 on: August 09, 2018, 07:24:48 am »
Today didn't buy any electronic device. Rather than bought rat poison. I am facing mice problem :(
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Re: What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!
« Reply #6945 on: August 09, 2018, 11:25:06 am »
After some rubbish early Spring Weather today was Sunny and 16 degrees for a 45km Ride on the Pushie to buy 10m of 2.5mm 3 core mains and a set of Verniers. 40-50km/hr head wind for the uphill ride home SUCKED  :--

Pain Killers and Dark Chocolate is helping.
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« Reply #6946 on: August 09, 2018, 12:17:30 pm »
Some good South Australian 'relaxing liquid',  :-+
Whoah! Watch where that landed we might need it later.
 

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« Reply #6947 on: August 09, 2018, 06:38:26 pm »
A new toy for my lab

 
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« Reply #6948 on: August 09, 2018, 06:46:47 pm »
Ooh that's nice, and a pretty green display too.  :-+
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« Reply #6949 on: August 09, 2018, 06:49:55 pm »
Bought two HPAK 6632A power supplies, because one can never have too many power supplies, right?!
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