What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!

[rdl]

Terrible crimp job on the cable in that photo though 

Typo on "Peceiver"
At least they got the "i before e" part right.

[DiTBho]

a lot (qty=20) of 5V cooling fans!

30x30x10
40x40x10
50x50x10
70x70x15

I have *ALL* the set now for every type of router that typically never offers an available a 12V line 

[beanflying]

Now for the tricky bit and make sure I don't stuff it up pulling it through the conduit run

9 days from order to my door for fiber, quick and to the point reply to my newbish technical question before I bought and they followed up after the purchase  Worth considering if you are looking for Network bits https://onti.aliexpress.com/store/5062254

[RAPo]

I've pre-ordered the Rigol DHO924S.

[armandine2]

... end of an era purchase 

[wkb]

Weee... should I now feel worried?

Wilko

... end of an era purchase 

[woody]

A companion for the lonely MX100Tp on my desk....

[armandine2]

Weee... should I now feel worried?

Wilko

Wilko is gone , inefficiency is going - you can try to keep fears down to a minimum
https://blog.lightbulbs-direct.com/the-light-bulb-ban/

[PlainName]

A companion for the lonely MX100Tp on my desk....

I like the way that 750W PSU is set for 4kW

[woody]

Yeah, it is showing off for the MX100 

[Kim Christensen]

Yeah, it is showing off for the MX100 

PowerFlex+ 

[DiTBho]

Two servo-linear-motors (hybrid, custom made by a company)
- accept PWM signals with 16bit of precision on a 2msec pulse
- controller by a digital controller with position feedback
- able to pull/push up to 500N!!! (~50Kg!!!)
- only 500mA of stall current!!!
- 6V powered
- gear-ratio 1:1000 reduction (yes, it's *VERY* slow)
- alluminium metal case with steel reinforcements

cost me ... a lot: only 90 euro each, but they only have 2 units and it's out of production

[RAPo]

A Belco AC bridge BR 8 is coming to my house.

[djsb]

Aim TTI i-Prober 520 today (new/unused off eBay) and XGecu Pro T48 Universal Programmer last week.

[armandine2]

Metcal SMTC-114 on order, in lieu of a Pace hot air station 

arrived today - works well , no hot air 

[dobsonr741]

Crucial BX500 240GB SSD, arriving same day by AMZN

[RAPo]

Super excited, I got an HP 54501A. I have been looking for it for years

[gamalot]

UNI-T UT117C was delivered this morning.

[DiTBho]

UNI-T UT117C was delivered this morning.

LOL, it really looks like a Fluke-clone 
is it really?

[gamalot]

UNI-T UT117C was delivered this morning.

LOL, it really looks like a Fluke-clone 
is it really?

Yes it is. 

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/uni-t-launches-the-ut117c-multimeter/

[beanflying]

Decided it wasn't worthy of a thread/review but the Cable Tester from a few posts ago turned up and it does what it said on the packet  All the Cable signal and handshaking tests work really well, NCV is good too.

The TDR functionality seems to be around +-2-5% based on a range of cables and I so far cant fool it to do non twisted pairs and read correctly so there might be some 'take it apart' soon. 2-3% on mid length cables and might be I got ripped off on the 100m roll but I am not unrolling it to check 

My shielded crimping skills or lack of still need some work and the multicore multi stranded 'floppy' wire is harder to feed into the connectors but after that works well. Still waiting on the boots to hide the average crimp work.

   

[DiTBho]

My shielded crimping skills

have you ever seen a *10*pin RJ45 thins?

well, yesterday I saw a *22*-contact connector, with a very similar shape to rj45

_________________O____M____G____W____T____F____________

but if it breaks ... how do you crimp it? and what do you test it with?

why do they do such weird things?!? 

[wkb]

 :)Sure I have seen them: Motorola Tetra radios use these 10pin RJ50 connectors for their remote control
heads.

Why? Because they need 10 pins 

Wilko

My shielded crimping skills

have you ever seen a *10*pin RJ45 thins?

well, yesterday I saw a *22*-contact connector, with a very similar shape to rj45

_________________O____M____G____W____T____F____________

but if it breaks ... how do you crimp it? and what do you test it with?

why do they do such weird things?!? 

[Mortymore]

Not really my purchase, but instead an early birthday present from wife

Andonstar AD407 pro



PS: The lighting reminded me of a hack I made some 15 years ago on the Bresser Biolux-AL, with a USB gooseneck LED light

[armandine2]

https://www.wickes.co.uk/MK-Dual-Voltage-Twin-Shaver-Socket---White/p/195095?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIi7vV35OggQMVwvftCh0g9ARtEAQYBCABEgIJ5vD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

seemed the right price for a punt