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[TiN]

Finally got my hands on one of these puppies...

Beware, beware!
Make sure to warm it up few weeks and take stability measurements per SN18 to make sure ADC is ok.

[poorchava]

Bought a Jovy Systems iSolder-40 V2 soldering station + a few different cartridges. Also while I was at it I ordered some pen flux made by Walton Metals Limited.

I expect to get the package tomorrow and I think I'm even gonna make a video review, since I couldn't find any detailed review of that station.

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[lincoln]

Do I really need another power supply?... Yes, yes I do.

[bitseeker]

More power!!! 

[AF6LJ]

I see the start of a new thread here... "Why Does Everyone Have Twenty Poser Supplies" 

[Sbampato12]

Do I really need another power supply?... Yes, yes I do.

Everybody needs another power supply.

There isn't such a thing as "Too many power supply".

It is the same thing to say, you have too many DMM....

[DimitriP]

I see the start of a new thread here... "Why Does Everyone Have Twenty Poser Supplies" 

It's the electronic equipment version of make-up. If a little bit is good, more must be better.

[canibalimao]

Do I really need another power supply?... Yes, yes I do.

Everybody needs another power supply.

There isn't such a thing as "Too many power supply".

It is the same thing to say, you have too many DMM....

That's like money: you can't have "too much money".

I say sometimes to my girlfriend that you can't have too much boobs or too much money. To my lab friends I say that you can't have too many lab tools!

[bitseeker]

you can't have "too much money"

Especially when you have too many power supplies, DMMs, etc., etc.

[Falkra]

You always need an extra power supply. Especially a good one. 

[AF6LJ]

I see the start of a new thread here... "Why Does Everyone Have Twenty Poser Supplies" 

It's the electronic equipment version of make-up. If a little bit is good, more must be better.

Being female; I am in the odd position of having more Oscilloscopes than shoes.

[Len]

Being female; I am in the odd position of having more Oscilloscopes than shoes.

Do you have matched pairs, for left & right channels?

[nanofrog]

Being female; I am in the odd position of having more Oscilloscopes than shoes.

 

[Macbeth]

Being female; I am in the odd position of having more Oscilloscopes than shoes.

That is very odd. So you have at least 20 oscilloscopes? Or are you an Imelda Marcos and we are talking 1000+ ?

_{ETA: My initial gross estimate was 300 shoes, but Imelda had over 1000.}

[AF6LJ]

Being female; I am in the odd position of having more Oscilloscopes than shoes.

That is very odd. So you have at least 20 oscilloscopes? Or are you an Imelda Marcos and we are talking 1000+ ?

_{ETA: My initial gross estimate was 300 shoes, but Imelda had over 1000.}

Seven oscilloscopes
Five working two not...

Two pairs of dress shoes
One pair of running shoes
and a pair of Filp-Flops..

[Vgkid]

Shoes vs. O-scopes got me thinking...
shoes are all in pairs.
3) tennis shoes. Gym, everyday, ones falling apart.
2) dress shoes.
1) Work  boots
thinking of getting another pair of gym shoes.
1) Tek 2245.
Sue, I have more"shoes" than you...

[TheSteve]

It was a moment of weakness and it was cheap. I used a 130S on my very first fieldday when I was 13 so its fun to have one in the shack.  Other hams will understand...
btw, this guy was made in 1982!

[nanofrog]

It was a moment of weakness and it was cheap. I used a 130S on my very first fieldday when I was 13 so its fun to have one in the shack.  Other hams will understand...
btw, this guy was made in 1982!

Looks very nice. 

Although I've never gotten into HAM radio, I've had an interest in the past. * 

* My dad was into it when I was young, which seems to have inspired an interest. Sadly, it seems I was also the reason he got out of it.  Cost at the times I've looked into it hasn't helped in my case either, though perhaps SDR will be what finally pulls me in. 

[zerorisers]

A wired mouse, break fluid, and food. debating whether or not to get gas. Not anything important for the rest of this school year... I cold use that money for more food, or even just use it later on for gas to get a a job instead of school. I think that would be more efficient. Hopefully I don't run out before my first paycheck. xD

[mmagin]

I wanted to make a scope clock for my desk at my new job.  I was originally going to build all the circuitry for a little old round electrostatic CRT, but then I got to looking at small, low-bandwidth scopes.

Got a good deal on one of these.  Aside from the dead NiCads (removed and leakage cleaned up) and unobtainable power cord, it works fine (uses only a couple watts at 12 volts!)

Now I just need a microcontroller and a couple 8 bit DACs driving it.

[MrSlack]

Whatever you do, don't eviscerate that scope!

Look out for a Tektronix 1401A and you have a nice compact 500MHz spectrum analyser unit.

[mmagin]

Oh, I won't.  Strictly connecting to its BNCs and powering it through the banana jacks.  Probably just set a microcontroller board on top and power it all through a switching wall-wart.

[Howardlong]

I wanted to make a scope clock for my desk at my new job.  I was originally going to build all the circuitry for a little old round electrostatic CRT, but then I got to looking at small, low-bandwidth scopes.

Got a good deal on one of these.  Aside from the dead NiCads (removed and leakage cleaned up) and unobtainable power cord, it works fine (uses only a couple watts at 12 volts!)

Now I just need a microcontroller and a couple 8 bit DACs driving it.

I built one with a PIC24FV16KM202 - they have dual 8 bit DACs and are buffered so that they that can be simultaneously written. You can buy a 5V Microstick with the part on it and an integrated programmer/debugger, part number DM240013-2

I also wrote an asteroids game for it.

[JPortici]

you absolute madman

[MrSlack]

Oh, I won't.  Strictly connecting to its BNCs and powering it through the banana jacks.  Probably just set a microcontroller board on top and power it all through a switching wall-wart.

Good good

Waiting for one of them to turn up in the UK at the moment. Rare as hens' teeth here