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

[tony t]

Wiss, the FC is early 1980's vintage!  I made a FC unit using Interstil chip in high school (1981).  It's slowly dying, the LED segment drivers are starting to fail.  Decided to splurge and buy a new Uni 8030 but hated the way if was designed, so I found the PM6673 on Ebay.  Attached is my home made unit and another pic of the Philips FC.

I just like playing around and understanding how temperature affects the frequency of quarts crystals.  It's my hobby...

[tony t]

Pics of home made Frequency counter (1981 vintage!). Sorry for posting twice, just getting used to the forum GUI.

[wiss]

Wiss, the FC is early 1980's vintage!  I made a FC unit using Interstil chip in high school (1981).  It's slowly dying, the LED segment drivers are starting to fail.  Decided to splurge and buy a new Uni 8030 but hated the way if was designed, so I found the PM6673 on Ebay.  Attached is my home made unit and another pic of the Philips FC.

I just like playing around and understanding how temperature affects the frequency of quarts crystals.  It's my hobby...

I should be carefull to ask such questions, I'm already measuring voltage with 3 more digits than I need... don't need timenutting as well...

[tony t]

Thanks to EEVblog and all for rekindling my passion for electronics.

Hi tony t. Of all the benches I've seen on here, yours is the one I like most. i.e. it's the one I could happily pull a chair up to and do some work on.

I guess this is because it has the main items arranged the way I would arrange them myself, also it has a nice uncluttered work area with a big ESD mat.

If I were to make changes to it (to suit me better) I would move the books and component bins somewhere else and leave some spare shelf space. I find that it's nice to always have some spare space on a shelf even if it's just as a place to put something (out of the way) for a few seconds.

But overall this is easily the best setup work bench I've seen so far

Thanks! Great minds think alike. Yes your suggestions are valid.  My goal is to use part of the middle shelf as "temporary storage" (within arms reach). The old Heathkit Frequency Generator has to go!

[8086]

I decided to properly set up my workbench over the bank holiday.

Before:

After:

Album with details: http://imgur.com/a/iaH15

[TVman]

That is some picture you got there.

[Terabyte2007]

That is some picture you got there.

What lab would'nt be complete without Amazon boxes! 

[GreyWoolfe]

There's Amazon boxes?  I don't even see test gear and tools!

[Bud]

Here is what I have

[TVman]

Here is what I have

WOW!

[TVman]

There's Amazon boxes?  I don't even see test gear and tools!

This is A joke, Right?

[GreyWoolfe]

There's Amazon boxes?  I don't even see test gear and tools!

This is A joke, Right?

Obviously a joke considering the very large picture of naked women over the workbench.  I suppose if a joke has to be explained, it's not really a joke.

[GreyWoolfe]

Here is what I have

  Nice.

[Hydrawerk]

Wow, does this 1980's equipment actually work?

[rolycat]

There's Amazon boxes?  I don't even see test gear and tools!

This is A joke, Right?

Obviously a joke considering the very large picture of naked women over the workbench.  I suppose if a joke has to be explained, it's not really a joke.

Both the picture and the joke were featured in this thread back in November:

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/whats-your-work-benchlab-look-like-post-some-pictures-of-your-lab/msg331678/#msg331678

[rdl]

It's the same picture above the bench, but lots of nice shelving has been added. Looks good.

[rolycat]

It's the same picture above the bench, but lots of nice shelving has been added. Looks good.

Oh, absolutely. Just thought those new to the thread might appreciate some additional context. (And maybe a clearer image of the young ladies).

[jlmoon]

Lab Pictures? 
This would be my 10lbs of stuff crammed into a 1lb sack. 
could be the worlds smallest lab ... a closet 6 feet x 7 feet.. behind the sitting area out of view are two 6 foot shelves stocked with large quantity of IC's, Transistors, Caps, Resistors and support components for most designs.  This is only one of about three configurations or arrangements my equipment might be in.  Enjoy the active mess.. !

JLM

https://www.flickr.com/photos/124211342@N06/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/124211342@N06/14268069896/

[JuiceKing]

Lab Pictures? 
This would be my 10lbs of stuff crammed into a 1lb sack. 
could be the worlds smallest lab ... a closet 6 feet x 7 feet.. behind the sitting area out of view are two 6 foot shelves stocked with large quantity of IC's, Transistors, Caps, Resistors and support components for most designs.  This is only one of about three configurations or arrangements my equipment might be in.  Enjoy the active mess.. !

JLM

https://www.flickr.com/photos/124211342@N06/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/124211342@N06/14268069896/

Wow, super lab.

[N TYPE]

Heres my lab..
Situated on the top floor Plant Room of a high-rise office building in an un-disclosed location in Perth CBD 
It ain't much, but it's home!

[robrenz]

The important part isn't the lab, its that you are actually doing something in your lab!

[jlmoon]

Wow, super lab.

Thank you Juice...

Situated on the top floor Plant Room of a high-rise office building in an un-disclosed location in Perth CBD 
It ain't much, but it's home!

N.... That light could have multiple purposes.. .. reminds me of the Drilling/Interrogation scene in "Marathon Man (Dustin Hoffman)... LOL.. that's an exact copy of that lamp.. ..
as Dave sez..... "Yeaah!"

[AndersAnd]

After:

Nice except for the monitor and oscilloscope sitting way too high. But if you want your radiator to work efficiently and don't cause too big heating bill you should remove the box and Ikea bag on the floor blocking the radiator's "cold air intake". But of course it's summer now, so it's not turned on at the moment, so maybe you'll remove it before the heating season.

[8086]

After:

Nice except for the monitor and oscilloscope sitting way too high. But if you want your radiator to work efficiently and don't cause too big heating bill you should remove the box and Ikea bag on the floor blocking the radiator's "cold air intake". But of course it's summer now, so it's not turned on at the moment, so maybe you'll remove it before the heating season.

Actually, they are at just the right height. Very nice position to work with.

The radiator is always set low, all year long, because it's always had stuff above it.

[davorin]

Long time ago a learned electronic design, switched then over to internet and network technology and finally come back to my roots....
Also a reason for this is that currently internet/network and electronics are merging nowadays...

So I'm asking out of curiosity what your electronic lab looks like by means of equipment...
...and what I am currently missing (o;

So far my electronic lab contains:

2 * HP6632B power supplied (2 more to come ;o)
1 * LeCroy 9354AL, 4 channel 500MHz DSO
1 * Philips PM3585 Logic analyzer
1 * HP3456A (1 more to come) multimeter
1 * HP8904A (currently in repair) function generator
1 * Fluke 6060A function generator

1 * Selfmade USB to GPIB adapter, based on Microchip PIC18F2550, total cost around US$ 15.

Anything I'm missing? (o;