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[technix]

Good story all around, a little sad to be sincere, if you only see the Anime (good adaptation from the base source, not very common). Although the adaptation is only the first part of the trilogy. You had to play the White Album 2: Extended Edition to get the Introductory Chapter (Anime related), the Closing Chapter and the Epilogue, that was released in 2018. I only played back in 2014, so I only got the Introductory and Closing chapters.

Between White Album and White Album 2 I really don't know who's to choose as the best one, but I prefer the story from White Album.

But let's end the offtopic.

Which of the two heroines did you choose in the opening chapter though...? I have heard people saying that the choice is very difficult to make, earning a “makes me stomachache” remark from Chinese players.

[Black Phoenix]

Well in the first White Album I gone with Rina Ogata in my first playthough but in White Album 2 I gone with Kazusa Touma by her mysterious aura around her. The Anime portraits that very well leaving a sour taste in the mouth in the last episode.

[beanflying]

While the forum was having a snooze I brought myself a Christmas Present. Seriously a good price Aussies  much as lining the Amazon pockets further is not my preferred option this was already $100 AUpesos below other pricing and there is another $50 off at present for $350 AUD.

https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B07J3D5YDT/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[nctnico]

New curtains for my office... when taking the old ones down for the annual washing they fell apart when I touched them  Sunlight destroys everything.

[Terry01]

A bit extra light for my wheelchair and a good book! The book I am already LOVING loads! 

[SmokeyTheElectrician]

Even with the cal just out that's still a great deal. Like you say it'll be just fine for your bench and the self cal feature lets you know it's near enough right?

I was back at the uCenter yesterday for some SD cards and  such
and decided to see if their 30 day price protection policy applies.
Yep, they said they would make the adjustment.
So, $48 and some change later made my day even more awesome.

Merry Christmas to All!

[Delenda]

Bought a new Autel AL619 OBD2 scanner for my car. A great buy.

[Terry01]

Even with the cal just out that's still a great deal. Like you say it'll be just fine for your bench and the self cal feature lets you know it's near enough right?

I was back at the uCenter yesterday for some SD cards and  such
and decided to see if their 30 day price protection policy applies.
Yep, they said they would make the adjustment.
So, $48 and some change later made my day even more awesome.

Merry Christmas to All!

The gift that just keeps giving... LOL

[technix]

New curtains for my office... when taking the old ones down for the annual washing they fell apart when I touched them  Sunlight destroys everything.

Note to myself: keep the anime character curtains out of direct sunlight. The current location for the server is pretty well shaded but just keep that in mind in the future.

[Ground_Loop]

I got this HP 8664 off Ebay for $400.  Seems to work perfectly.

Cool!  Is yours an HP 8664A or B?

Nice score!  Mine needed a tantalum cap in one of the modules.  That thing's a backbreaker, huh?

-Pat

Good grief yes.  I think the two person lift sticker may have actually been factory applied.  When I built my present work area, I put some gouges into one of the work surfaces wrestling it into place by myself because I nobody was available to help me with it and I pulled some muscles pretty badly doing it to the point I was beginning to worry if I'd given myself a hernia but thankfully not.

Mine is a 86664A 3Ghz.  Also has two person lift sticker.  Claim from previous owner is it came back from Cal in 2017 and sat ever since unused and unpowered.  I was not aware that there is a version 8664B.  Are you possibly thinking of the 8665B?

[25 CPS]

Mine is a 86664A 3Ghz.  Also has two person lift sticker.  Claim from previous owner is it came back from Cal in 2017 and sat ever since unused and unpowered.  I was not aware that there is a version 8664B.  Are you possibly thinking of the 8665B?

Yes, my mistake, I was thinking of the 8665B.  They say the mind’s the first thing to go but I wasn’t expecting it to happen at my age.

[med6753]

My first genuine boat anchor. Tek 535A. See TEA thread for details.

[rsjsouza]

It is nice to spend someone else's money and then get to enjoy it, right? 

[BravoV]

Ordered half a million dollar worth of gears for my new lab at work.

4 sets of E36313A/MSOX3104A/BK9221/F289/Metcal MFR+HCT2/LCR Pro 1 Plus benches, 1 set of MSO58+tons of probes including a pair of isoVu, two 15kW Keysight power supplies, one M9371A VNA, one Rigol RSA5065 EMI suite, one E4980A, one Flir ETS320 and a few smaller gadgets.

Also made some sales for my friends at Altium, Psim, Ansys and Plexis.

Great purchase, came with great responsibilities .. of bragging them, with a nice photo shoot for all of us. 

If you're shy, just post in the TEA sanctuary. 

[PartialDischarge]

Ordered half a million dollar worth of gears for my new lab at work.

At least its money spent by someone who knows and not by a bean counter

[HighVoltage]

I was in Shenzhen in October and visited one company and it was the same.

Engineers were in charge of purchasing the low quantity but high quality equipment.
Bean counters were only in charge of high quantity production components.

This was on purpose divided by the management, because they wanted the engineering teams
to have the best of the best equipment.

One company I visited in 2018 had Rigol scopes in their production line.
At the time they had asked me to suggest an improvement and I suggested Keysight 3000 Series scopes.
This October they had probably around 100 pieces Keysight 3000 Series scopes installed.
It is unreal how quick the decision making is China goes and money seems not important at such stage.

 

[CalMachine]

Picked me up some BNC caps to help protect my test equipment 

[shakalnokturn]

Picked me up some BNC caps to help protect my test equipment 

50 BNC caps?
Are those for protection against accidental bashing, accidental tesla-coiling (also known as ESD), are you working on an over-cluttered bench? Sorry I don't really get the use of those...

[Bud]

Those are not 50 Ohm terminators, there is no center pin in them .They are DUST caps, does that clarify the purpose?

[Kosmic]

One company I visited in 2018 had Rigol scopes in their production line.
At the time they had asked me to suggest an improvement and I suggested Keysight 3000 Series scopes.
This October they had probably around 100 pieces Keysight 3000 Series scopes installed.
It is unreal how quick the decision making is China goes and money seems not important at such stage.

Just curious, what was their issues with rigol scopes ?

[maginnovision]

Picked me up some BNC caps to help protect my test equipment 

50 BNC caps?
Are those for protection against accidental bashing, accidental tesla-coiling (also known as ESD), are you working on an over-cluttered bench? Sorry I don't really get the use of those...

Just watch Keysights newest video on how to blow up your equipment.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=dDvue5whx0s

[shakalnokturn]

Right, dust caps.
My equipment has dust-tolerant BNCs, I'm slow enough at any job without having to fight with dust caps that will roll away and short something expensive later.
The keysight video was interesting, I do see there can be some point in such caps but will carry on believing BNC is inherently ESD safe as the signal is very unlikely to be exposed before the ground is.

[cncjerry]

well, haven't been here in a while, for no particular reason, since I bought the CSA8000.  By the way, that is waiting for its first sampling module.  It would have been here yesterday if the PO hadn't messed up.  It made it to my town PO of about 13k people (not like we are in NY where they could lose it), then they shipped it to another PO and then took it all the way back to the San Francisco distribution center.  I hope they don't send it back to the guy because they were nice enough to give me a return option.  But I digress...

I've wanted an HP 3561 for a while and found by accident a 3562a locally.  Nice guy, but sometimes I wonder if they ever got anything out of this device because the settings were all over the place when I powered it up.  I have a Krell KSA50S amp that will start distorting just the high frequencies.  Turning it off an on will reset it and then it might play for a month without a problem.  The distortion is hard to catch with a scope.  Anyway, I say this so I can justify the 3562 or not, who cares, I wanted one. 

First picture is the unit doing a sweep of a small crossover I built using the Wondom DSP modules.  They are made by a company called Sure Electronics.  They make these DSP units with/without bluetooth, with/without an amp, etc.  Very inexpensive.  I needed a crossover to drive small powered B&W speakers and a subwoofer for my synthesizer and keyboards.  Using the DSP module I threw one together in about 20 minutes.  The DSPs are supported by Analog devices graphical DSP code generator SigmaDSP.  Anyway, all is well otherwise now that I have my new most favorite piece of gear.  By the way, I thought it was a steal at $325US, what do you think?

Jerry

ps:  by the way, the knobs on the 3562 were cleaned in an ultrasonic cleaner from harbor freight.  I can't believe how clean they look compared to the rest of the unit.

[BravoV]

Camelion brand, D sized Ni-MH cells at 7000 mAh

[Black Phoenix]

Camelion brand, D sized Ni-MH cells at 7000 mAh

Good alternative, since Eneloops don't exist in C and D, what they have is adapters from AA to C and D



Although they had sometime ago:



C type with 4xAAA inside.

It's cheaper for the manufacture, since most of the uses are for AA/AAA (Panasonic says in the ad around 85%) but at the same time you are limited by the reduced rating of available mAh from the AAs.