Whats your Work-Bench/lab look like? Post some pictures of your Lab.

[Teti]

Not many fancy instruments, but show several of my hobbies (electronics, 3d printing, CNC, robotics)

You've got some nice toys over there 

[Howardlong]

After Dan Gelbarts "shed"  we can again drool over DK7LG's home lab:
http://www.hilberling.com/de/de_ham/ham.htm
http://www.hilberling.com/bo/bo_ham/ham_hl-3u.jpg

His antenna tower is impressive, wonder if he hand built it.

I was a little disappointed there didn't appear to be a private elevator (with a seating area), together with a dedicated personal operator.

[coppercone2]

I like the Eiffel tower style staircase

The idea of a very long staircase (stairway to heaven) is interesting too, especially if it forms 1/2 of the lip of a planar biconical antenna (this would work if the tower is near a cliff). Or if it was a giant helix antenna that you walk up.

[Ground_Loop]

The evolution continues. Might be about time to get a bigger space.

[Teti]

The evolution continues. Might be about time to get a bigger space.
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Your wire and cable box caught my attention, please can you take a detailed picture? (bottom- right shelve)

[coppice]

That's an interesting staircase. Does the user ascend every day to use the equipment from the top of the tower, or is there something up there so incredibly unreliable it needs 1st class access? Even if a full spiral staircase is a priority, wouldn't it have been cheaper, more attractive, and more compact if the staircase went up the centre of the tower?

[Tom45]

That's an interesting staircase. Does the user ascend every day to use the equipment from the top of the tower, or is there something up there so incredibly unreliable it needs 1st class access? Even if a full spiral staircase is a priority, wouldn't it have been cheaper, more attractive, and more compact if the staircase went up the centre of the tower?

I wonder what all of those birds do to the antenna's performance.

[tautech]

That's an interesting staircase. Does the user ascend every day to use the equipment from the top of the tower, or is there something up there so incredibly unreliable it needs 1st class access? Even if a full spiral staircase is a priority, wouldn't it have been cheaper, more attractive, and more compact if the staircase went up the centre of the tower?

I wonder what all of those birds do to the antenna's performance.

Probably not as much as squirrels.

[bsfeechannel]

I wonder what all of those birds do to the antenna's performance.

They're carrier pigeons.

[Teti]

I wonder what all of those birds do to the antenna's performance.

They're carrier pigeons.

Birds charging on power lines
LOL Pigeons are liars (according to made up satire conspiracy theory)

[Tom45]

I wonder what all of those birds do to the antenna's performance.

They're carrier pigeons.

For use with RFC 2549 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers?

[coppice]

That's an interesting staircase. Does the user ascend every day to use the equipment from the top of the tower, or is there something up there so incredibly unreliable it needs 1st class access? Even if a full spiral staircase is a priority, wouldn't it have been cheaper, more attractive, and more compact if the staircase went up the centre of the tower?

I wonder what all of those birds do to the antenna's performance.

I wonder what that much weight does to the strength requirements of those rods? Birds are light, but enough of them starts to add up, and most antennae use pretty thin tubes.

[jord4231]

I'm not happy with my lab ATM looking for suggestions
The big grey desk with the computer screens on is 1m deep the white bench is only 600

The white bench is sitting on those draws and screwed to the wall, its a tad annoying not being able to get my legs under the desk but it might be more annoying if it was a computer desk?
What's worse is its a stretch for my bench dmm, signal gen and power supply leads to my green work mat, and there is a lot of wasted bench space.

My Thoughts are,
*pain in the backside but move the white and grey desk around. Use the upper riser to put power supply, DMM, soldering iron etc on to free up bench space.

Or
Put a shelf under the component draws for the DMM etc. It would need to be at least 350mm deep so that's going to over hang more than half the white bench. (I'm not sure this is a good idea)

Or keep the desks how they are but move the computer monitors to the white bench and use the grey desk for the electronics stuff making use of the riser.

Thoughts would be appreciated I'm real bad at this stuff

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[Messtechniker]

Those speakers are using up a lot of shelf space.
Maybe something to think about.
And what about that big block in the corner?

[Ed.Kloonk]

Those speakers are using up a lot of shelf space.

I've had bigger. Much bigger. 

[McBryce]

And what about that big block in the corner?

That's a 3D printer as far as I can see.

McBryce.

[jord4231]

Yeh it's a 3d printer. I think I'll just make the electronics bench a bit deeper. Still thinking on it

[jord4231]

Big decluttering happy with my bench now 🙂

[rdl]

If possible I'd move the parts storage to a different place and install shelves above the bench for equipment. It would be more practical that way.

[McBryce]

Big decluttering happy with my bench now 🙂

How do you use the test equipment when it's all at knee level? Surely it should be the other way around: Components out of sight and meters where you can read them at eye level?

McBryce.

[jord4231]

It's not too bad. A lot better than a cluttered bench for the time being until I do a big change. My eventual plan is to move the components and put the test equip up higher.

[DennisCA]

I don't have a workspace for electronics, i just got my desk where it has to share for space with the usual desktop stuff, coffee mugs and stuff

Here it's looking pretty clean,


I have a shop, but I don't do electronics stuff out there, just not a good place for it.

I have storage on the other side of the wall where I keep my things when not in use.

[ferdieCX]

Hi,
I have put a shelve over the bench, with the instruments that are in use. The tools are stored in the drawers.
The other instruments and spare parts are stored in a cupboard

[ByTechLab]

Hi,

Down below you can find some pictrures of my lab 




List of equipment that I already have:
- LeCroy Waverunner 6100 1GHz 10 GSa/s
- HP 8595E 6,5 GHz SA
- HP 8640A RF GEN
- Marconi IFR 2025 2.5 GHz RF Gen
- Keysight 34970A DAQ
- HP 34401A 6,5 digit DMM
- Rigol DL3021A DC load
- Rigol DS1054Z Scope
- Rigol DG1022Z Arb Gen
- Agilent E3646A PSU
- Rigol DP832A PSU
- HackRF SDR,
- NanoVNA,
- WEP 853 Preheater,
- ZD-915 desoldering gun,
- JBC CD-2BQF,
- Microscope + camera,
- Ultrasonic cleaner,
- Lab PC + screens,
- 4x FDM + 1x SLA 3D printers,
- Other stuff (cables, handheld DMM,s etc.)

On the way to me:
- Puhui T962A Reflow oven,
- Rigol MSO5072 Oscilloscope,

Just cant wait to make some project with my new equipment !
I'm planning to post my new projects on my website (I haven't had enough time to write new posts for past 5 years - studies, but now I'm planning to restart the whole website). You can find my website over this link  : https://bytechlab.com/

[Teti]

The scopes in that photo are a 2455B on the left, a 2445A in the center and the big one on the right is a DSA 602A. Just out of view is an 11302A and a couple more DSA 602As.

The microscope is a Leica Wild M3Z with 10x Eyepieces giving 6.5X to 40x magnification. Illumination is a 150W fibre optic ring-light.

Under the bench is a home-built 6KW 415V 3-phase rotary converter and a 2KW High-isolation 1-phase mains transformer and some big dummy loads to keep my feet warm.

The patient on the bench is a micro-hole drilling EDM generator for making the spray holes in diesel fuel injectors.
The PC on the left is sending commands to the generator on test and the DSA is monitoring the power output to the non-inductive dummy load in the gold heat-sink on the middle of the bench.
Output pulses are 100V for 1uS at a 200KHz repetition rate.
Power comes from the Glassman 150V 7A PSU on the far left.
Input and output power monitoring connections are Tek P5205 HV Differential Voltage probes connected to an 11A34 four channel amplifier and A6302 Current probes feeding an 11A16 Current Probe amplifier - all in the DSA602A mainframe. Power computation is done by the DSA. Hard copies are sent to the DSA floppy disk and then printed-out in the final test report.

Interestingly, reverse engineering the Generator included cleaving the top off an 8-pin IC to read the part number from the silicon because the OEM had ground-off all the IC numbers! I've attached a photo for you of the view down the microscope when I found out the chip was an AD9696.

Picture of the lab is courtesy of http://owston-grange.com/