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Re: Whats your Work-Bench/lab look like? Post some pictures of your Lab.
« Reply #2475 on: December 21, 2016, 04:23:47 am »
Here's a couple I took of my collection.
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Re: Whats your Work-Bench/lab look like? Post some pictures of your Lab.
« Reply #2476 on: December 21, 2016, 10:49:47 am »
I moved house in July, and this is now my living-room / studio / workshop  ;D

Self-employed, working out of my home, aspiring recording / mixing engineer.

Props to Louis Rossmann for preaching the benefits of 4k for viewing schematics  ::)
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Re: Whats your Work-Bench/lab look like? Post some pictures of your Lab.
« Reply #2477 on: December 21, 2016, 06:55:15 pm »
Plenty of shelf space on that wall to clear things up.
By the way: seeing that you are using those Tannoys (6s?) from the Precision series.
have you found those super tweeters to be of any use? I can cover mine and not
a difference is to be heard. Maybe its may age....

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Re: Whats your Work-Bench/lab look like? Post some pictures of your Lab.
« Reply #2478 on: December 21, 2016, 08:25:35 pm »
I moved house in July, and this is now my living-room / studio / workshop  ;D
Sweet! Looks just like my place!
 

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Re: Whats your Work-Bench/lab look like? Post some pictures of your Lab.
« Reply #2479 on: December 21, 2016, 11:37:23 pm »
Actually, at some point i'm planning to put up some acoustic absorption on those walls, i've got flutter echo in that room like a mofo (if you'll pardon the language)  :P

About the supertweeters, i'm not terribly sure. but then again, most of the music i listen to is sampled at 44.1kHz, so...
Either way, when i grabbed those (sold as faulty on ebay, grabbed'em for a bit under 200e shipped), i wanted them more for the coax drivers, and the (hopefully) easy repairability :)

Plenty of shelf space on that wall to clear things up.
By the way: seeing that you are using those Tannoys (6s?) from the Precision series.
have you found those super tweeters to be of any use? I can cover mine and not
a difference is to be heard. Maybe its may age....

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Re: Whats your Work-Bench/lab look like? Post some pictures of your Lab.
« Reply #2480 on: January 01, 2017, 07:43:21 pm »
more bits & bobs from off the Bench
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Re: Whats your Work-Bench/lab look like? Post some pictures of your Lab.
« Reply #2481 on: January 09, 2017, 08:16:04 pm »
Some of us live in small studios... poor us.


Well, at least I have a fancy lab at work.




 

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Re: Whats your Work-Bench/lab look like? Post some pictures of your Lab.
« Reply #2482 on: January 15, 2017, 06:33:57 am »
Here's my little corner of electronics in the house.
 

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Re: Whats your Work-Bench/lab look like? Post some pictures of your Lab.
« Reply #2483 on: January 16, 2017, 01:20:32 pm »
Nice bench!  I should post mine - if I didn't have 10 different projects going on.

Dave should do a rant about how it's "not the size of the bench, or the collection of test equipment that matters"

I'm always amazed at how many awesome projects come from people with a modest bench, and a $300 scope. And yet other peeps have a $10,000 scope unlimited resources.

Rant on Dave!

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Re: Whats your Work-Bench/lab look like? Post some pictures of your Lab.
« Reply #2484 on: January 16, 2017, 02:35:46 pm »
You even have the protection foil on the siglents, Dave does not like that ????
 

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Re: Whats your Work-Bench/lab look like? Post some pictures of your Lab.
« Reply #2485 on: January 16, 2017, 05:21:15 pm »
I'm always amazed at how many awesome projects come from people with a modest bench, and a $300 scope. And yet other peeps have a $10,000 scope unlimited resources.

Over time I've stocked my workbench with auction scores and repair pieces:



I just got my cabinets (free shipping on the Agilent one, don't know how they made money on it) and I'm trying to work out where I want my gear.

This surplus test gear thing is a great way to get quality gear for inexpensive prices. The most expensive piece was the 3458A I got from a Seagate facility closure ($1800) and the least expensive was the 5440B from the US Air force for $65.

Here are some different views:





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Re: Whats your Work-Bench/lab look like? Post some pictures of your Lab.
« Reply #2486 on: January 16, 2017, 05:48:43 pm »
I just got my cabinets (free shipping on the Agilent one, don't know how they made money on it) and I'm trying to work out where I want my gear.

This surplus test gear thing is a great way to get quality gear for inexpensive prices. The most expensive piece was the 3458A I got from a Seagate facility closure ($1800) and the least expensive was the 5440B from the US Air force for $65.


Nice array of kit.

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Re: Whats your Work-Bench/lab look like? Post some pictures of your Lab.
« Reply #2487 on: January 16, 2017, 08:05:16 pm »
I'm always amazed at how many awesome projects come from people with a modest bench, and a $300 scope. And yet other peeps have a $10,000 scope unlimited resources.

Over time I've stocked my workbench with auction scores and repair pieces:



I just got my cabinets (free shipping on the Agilent one, don't know how they made money on it) and I'm trying to work out where I want my gear.

This surplus test gear thing is a great way to get quality gear for inexpensive prices. The most expensive piece was the 3458A I got from a Seagate facility closure ($1800) and the least expensive was the 5440B from the US Air force for $65.

Here are some different views:





TonyG

Lucky man have that place for those gears.  8)
I have something to sell, because of space for new one:)
 

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Re: Whats your Work-Bench/lab look like? Post some pictures of your Lab.
« Reply #2488 on: January 16, 2017, 11:16:28 pm »
Those racks are great. I'll have to keep my eyes peeled for something like that.
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Re: Whats your Work-Bench/lab look like? Post some pictures of your Lab.
« Reply #2489 on: January 18, 2017, 02:10:36 am »
...
Dave should do a rant about how it's "not the size of the bench, or the collection of test equipment that matters"
...

Are you kidding?  Have you never watched any of his videos?  Have you never noticed both the size of his bench space and the size of his test equipment collection.....

Unless you are trying to say he's compensating for something....
 

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Re: Whats your Work-Bench/lab look like? Post some pictures of your Lab.
« Reply #2490 on: January 18, 2017, 12:33:00 pm »
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Dave should do a rant about how it's "not the size of the bench, or the collection of test equipment that matters"
...

Are you kidding?  Have you never watched any of his videos?  Have you never noticed both the size of his bench space and the size of his test equipment collection.....

Unless you are trying to say he's compensating for something....

You missed the point, but followed it up well!  ;)

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Re: Whats your Work-Bench/lab look like? Post some pictures of your Lab.
« Reply #2491 on: January 18, 2017, 04:56:32 pm »
Here are some different views:





TonyG

Do you find yourself moving the gear a lot from the racks to the bench? Many of those pieces of gear need to be fairly close to the DUT to be practical. I still have all of my gear in a usable position on the bench, but only because it is not that much stuff. I am looking at an LCR meter, VNA, and SA which would be too big to fit on the bench.
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Re: Whats your Work-Bench/lab look like? Post some pictures of your Lab.
« Reply #2492 on: January 18, 2017, 05:04:31 pm »
You might not notice it but there is a little adjustable bench right in front of the 3458A that I can use for a lot of stuff that needs shorter cables. For things that need to be attached directly I have one of those adjustable laptop tables so I can set the height to match my sig gens and then place the equipment on that.

So far it's been a good layout but I haven't screwed anything down yet (and I think I'll move my 3325B further up in the cabinet).

On the bench I have some Rigol gear that use day to day and mostly I can use the RF stuff either by using the little bench or by adjusting for the cable insertion loss.

Overall I'm really happy with the change as it enables me to have more actual bench space.

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Re: Whats your Work-Bench/lab look like? Post some pictures of your Lab.
« Reply #2493 on: January 18, 2017, 06:31:59 pm »
Playing around with Fyuse today. a partial 360 of the lab!  8)

https://fyu.se/v/ok8puazd7w

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Re: Whats your Work-Bench/lab look like? Post some pictures of your Lab.
« Reply #2494 on: January 18, 2017, 09:58:05 pm »
Playing around with Fyuse today. a partial 360 of the lab!  8)

https://fyu.se/v/ok8puazd7w
holy crap, nice
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Re: Whats your Work-Bench/lab look like? Post some pictures of your Lab.
« Reply #2495 on: January 18, 2017, 10:27:01 pm »
Full fill up of my thermaltronics soldering tips. 8)
 

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Re: Whats your Work-Bench/lab look like? Post some pictures of your Lab.
« Reply #2496 on: January 19, 2017, 12:42:51 am »
Playing around with Fyuse today. a partial 360 of the lab!  8)

https://fyu.se/v/ok8puazd7w

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Re: Whats your Work-Bench/lab look like? Post some pictures of your Lab.
« Reply #2497 on: January 19, 2017, 03:00:47 am »
Playing around with Fyuse today. a partial 360 of the lab!  8)

https://fyu.se/v/ok8puazd7w

That's pretty cool: lab and Fyuse.
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Re: Whats your Work-Bench/lab look like? Post some pictures of your Lab.
« Reply #2498 on: January 19, 2017, 03:06:49 am »
Terabyte,

That is an obscene amount of multimeters!
I love it.

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Re: Whats your Work-Bench/lab look like? Post some pictures of your Lab.
« Reply #2499 on: January 19, 2017, 04:56:20 am »
What, only one 3458A? :)

j/k. Nice stash, Tony_G.
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