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Offline Zucca

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Re: What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!
« Reply #7675 on: December 19, 2018, 09:17:34 pm »
Christmas is behind the door  8)

Keysight Infiniivision DSOX3014T arrived today:)

Can't wait to see it become a 3104T  >:D
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Re: What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!
« Reply #7676 on: December 19, 2018, 09:34:44 pm »
Meanwhile my Keysight scope went to repair for the fourth time >:(.

The first time the device failed to boot due to NAND corruption.
The second and third time the device boots fine, but crashed randomly, and I fixed it myself by reflashing it. Same NAND corruption.
This time the device shorted itself for whatever reason. The power supply makes the typical overload hiccup noise, and nothing comes on.

The 6000X scope?
Since I read your horror stories, I am afraid, each time I to turn my 6000X scope on.
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Re: What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!
« Reply #7677 on: December 20, 2018, 01:06:19 am »
Christmas is behind the door  8)

Keysight Infiniivision DSOX3014T arrived today:)


Nice 1 buddy!!  :-+
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Re: What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!
« Reply #7678 on: December 20, 2018, 08:23:50 am »
Christmas is behind the door  8)

Keysight Infiniivision DSOX3014T arrived today:)


Nice 1 buddy!!  :-+

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And I can't say the price because you will kill me :D

Christmas is behind the door  8)

Keysight Infiniivision DSOX3014T arrived today:)

Can't wait to see it become a 3104T  >:D
In progress 8) May be today ;)

 

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Re: What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!
« Reply #7679 on: December 20, 2018, 09:02:26 am »
I bought a "10000 mAh" quickcharge power bank. Huaqiang bei's markets are the most disorganized place I've ever been, not to mention a lack of ESD control other than the tobacco and humidity. I was looking mostly for RF stuff. I guess I went to the wrong building.
 

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Re: What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!
« Reply #7680 on: December 20, 2018, 12:28:33 pm »
Christmas is behind the door  8)

Keysight Infiniivision DSOX3014T arrived today:)




 

Nice one that, if I found one of them in my presents, I'd be locked away in my lab all christmas playing with it  :-DD
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Re: What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!
« Reply #7681 on: December 20, 2018, 10:06:39 pm »
Snagged a brand spanking iPad while going through duty free.
32G WiFi model......business expense !  :D
Much better than lugging around that heavy laptop.  :phew:
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Re: What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!
« Reply #7682 on: December 21, 2018, 12:36:43 am »
Something for playing at hotel during business trip.  >:D
 

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Re: What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!
« Reply #7683 on: December 21, 2018, 11:43:20 am »
Who makes that one ?
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Re: What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!
« Reply #7684 on: December 21, 2018, 12:39:56 pm »
Interesting item from Big Clives video today. Preloaded IPA cotton buds. 0.5ml and claiming 75% alcohol, ordered 50 to play with. Crack the marked end and use. Maybe not for bench smd work but these are likely heading in to my onsite bag.

Search 'medical alcohol stick' on evilbay will get plenty of options.

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Re: What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!
« Reply #7685 on: December 21, 2018, 01:29:07 pm »
Who makes that one ?
It's the TS80, USB PD version of the TS100, same manufacturer.
 

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Re: What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!
« Reply #7686 on: December 21, 2018, 02:14:15 pm »
Yeah, and another item for my collection.
Wasn't ultimately cheap but for some reason the prices for current clamps on eBay are insane. Like people want 770€ for a Chauvin Arnaux E3N even though you could get a brand new one for 341€.
Anyway, the PR 30 is said to be effectively unused, so I guess 150€ is an OK price for something that is more or less the same as a Fluke i30s (which currently sells for >= 600€ new).
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Re: What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!
« Reply #7687 on: December 21, 2018, 07:43:10 pm »
I upgraded to the latest version of Orcad for my business. Now I need to learn a new PCB package. O joy  :-\
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Re: What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!
« Reply #7688 on: December 22, 2018, 03:34:44 am »
I upgraded to the latest version of Orcad for my business. Now I need to learn a new PCB package. O joy  :-\
Still using ver. 9.2 and still happy with it.  They got the bugs out by then but ver 10 was a disaster.
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Re: What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!
« Reply #7689 on: December 22, 2018, 11:43:05 am »
I upgraded to the latest version of Orcad for my business. Now I need to learn a new PCB package. O joy  :-\
Still using ver. 9.2 and still happy with it.  They got the bugs out by then but ver 10 was a disaster.
For schematics and board design 9.2 is OK indeed and I'm really proficient & happy  with Orcad Layout but I'm starting to need 3D output support. I'm wasting a lot of time making drawings from a circuit board and/or making physical models which then need to be re-drawn by the people doing the mechanical side of things. Having a 3D model which can be dropped into a 3D package would be a big win. Also the high-speed signal and cross-talk simulation is a handy add-on for the designs that need it.
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Re: What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!
« Reply #7690 on: December 22, 2018, 12:00:09 pm »
Haven’t been buying things recently, in the middle of a series of exams now. If I pass them I am heading to Lanzhou University for a MSc program next year. And two months after that exams it will be my high school teacher license exams.

Standardized tests, maybe that is what I bought after all.
 
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Re: What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!
« Reply #7691 on: December 22, 2018, 02:50:11 pm »
Good luck, technix!

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Re: What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!
« Reply #7692 on: December 23, 2018, 09:01:50 am »
Next nice piece of equipment to lab Agilent 53181A 8)
I seen this as not working on eBay but wait pictures shows "SELFTEST PASS" and I couldn't resist:) TEA :palm:


And Yes it was broken ... no reading of input signal. Then I open this guy and wohoo part of PCB where BNC is placed is completely broken. Superglue should do the job.
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Some superglue and hotglue for strength.


Repairing broken traces.


And wuoalaaa it's working  :-+  That's was quick repair:) Some cleaning and job done:) Finally I was lucky like SignalPath several times :-DD


Merry Christmas! 
 

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Re: What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!
« Reply #7693 on: December 23, 2018, 10:17:11 am »
If I pass them I am heading to Lanzhou University for a MSc program next year.

Prospective alumni ;).
You have been studying there too?
 

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Re: What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!
« Reply #7694 on: December 23, 2018, 10:51:43 am »
Next nice piece of equipment to lab Agilent 53181A 8)
I seen this as not working on eBay but wait pictures shows "SELFTEST PASS" and I couldn't resist:) TEA :palm:

And Yes it was broken ... no reading of input signal. Then I open this guy and wohoo part of PCB where BNC is placed is completely broken. Superglue should do the job.

Some superglue and hotglue for strength.

Repairing broken traces.

And wuoalaaa it's working  :-+  That's was quick repair:) Some cleaning and job done:) Finally I was lucky like SignalPath several times :-DD

Merry Christmas!

3GHz board for Channel 2 ordered?

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Re: What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!
« Reply #7695 on: December 23, 2018, 11:19:15 am »
Next nice piece of equipment to lab Agilent 53181A 8)
I seen this as not working on eBay but wait pictures shows "SELFTEST PASS" and I couldn't resist:) TEA :palm:

And Yes it was broken ... no reading of input signal. Then I open this guy and wohoo part of PCB where BNC is placed is completely broken. Superglue should do the job.

Some superglue and hotglue for strength.

Repairing broken traces.

And wuoalaaa it's working  :-+  That's was quick repair:) Some cleaning and job done:) Finally I was lucky like SignalPath several times :-DD

Merry Christmas!

3GHz board for Channel 2 ordered?

McBryce.

It's on the task list also with OCXO module :)
 

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Re: What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!
« Reply #7696 on: December 23, 2018, 06:48:03 pm »
Graduated bachelor of science on electrical and informational science and technology, with excellent thesis.

I do have to warn you that Lanzhou is a city with extreme poverty. Be ready to go back 20 years in time.
Going from coastal temperate climate to inland arid also a shock, gonna need a new coat ;)
 

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Re: What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!
« Reply #7697 on: December 24, 2018, 01:18:29 am »
Next nice piece of equipment to lab Agilent 53181A 8)
I seen this as not working on eBay but wait pictures shows "SELFTEST PASS" and I couldn't resist:) TEA :palm:


And Yes it was broken ... no reading of input signal. Then I open this guy and wohoo part of PCB where BNC is placed is completely broken. Superglue should do the job.
]

Some superglue and hotglue for strength.


Repairing broken traces.


And wuoalaaa it's working  :-+  That's was quick repair:) Some cleaning and job done:) Finally I was lucky like SignalPath several times :-DD


Merry Christmas!

Safe to call this a "NICE 1"  :-+
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Re: What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!
« Reply #7698 on: December 24, 2018, 01:34:36 am »
The TEA thread is evil  >:D

Got a little customer 'emergency' job (Coffee machine version of PEBCAK) on Christmas Eve so I brought a last minute gift for myself. It won't make it for tomorrow but it's the thought that counts  ;D

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Re: What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!
« Reply #7699 on: December 24, 2018, 10:48:55 am »
Much to the chagrin of many, bought a VICI VC8145 ( I can hear the ambulances running now ) for $160 AUD.

Already written the software for linux to tie it in with Openbroadcaster/YouTube, logging and eventually in to my Boardview suite.

It's little more than a glorified handheld with a 9V power brick inside but it has fast continuity and for the work it'll be doing it's already an overkill.

I think the next meter will likely be an Agilent or Fluke, however for now, this covers the needs.
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