Should I do a review/teardown?
Of course! Should that even be a question here?
New battery for my Fluke 196B ScopeMeter for 20$
Picked up a "like new" Fluke 289 FVF with software and all the cables for an extremely good price. A highly impressive piece of kit. Now why didn't meters have all this shit back when I actually needed to run around with a meter in my hand all day!!??
McBryce.
6 liters of 99.9% Isopropyl Alcohol for ~20€, including shipping. Parrrrrrrty time...
Thank God, no...
But I'm a little bit an atypical German, I usually prefer a good glass of wine over a stein of beer. Cheers!
Thank God, no...
But I'm a little bit an atypical German, I usually prefer a good glass of wine over a stein of beer. Cheers!
Coming from someone that's from belgium, that doesn't go down well with me...
Beer über alles!!
one of these, but their crap, keeps swinging across the front of me and no way to lock it off, miss my old clarkes one but their now twice the price of this.
http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/22w-fluorescent-daylight-magnifier-lamp-a29ff
I have one of these, and as a magnifier & lamp it is basically OK. I made my own mounting base for it, as the standard one got in the way of the cupboard next to my bench, and a trick I used was to wrap PTFE thread tape around the swivelly bit of the arm to increase the diameter to the point that it just made a firm fit into the base. Stops it swinging about in the breeze, but still easy to move.
i'll give that a try then, thanks
Today I've bought 78 multimeters.
I wonder if they'll work?
WoW
Yeah - we've got to see some pics of this.
I ordered a SDG2082X from tequipment and got a shipping notice from them last night!
A second hand Tek 21GHz spectrum analyser. Of course I can't check it works above ~3GHz because I don't have any suitable signal sources
Now all I need is a
proper DC block and attenuator, not something I cobble together myself. And a tracking generator. And some decent cables and connectors
A nice little DIN rail mounting power meter. Took it apart before turning it on, and aside from the 3 internal IC's being the ground off top type ( one is obviously a PIC doing the math and display side, one is a jellybean quad opamp and the last os likely a cheap ADC, so no surprise there) it is not bad, input power being provided by a capacitive divider, and with voltage sensing using 2 series 100k 0.3W 1% metal film resistors.
All in all it does what it needs, and $25 with "free shipping" was not too bad.
Shown testing it's own power draw. 10VA, 3.2W and a really bad power factor. PF does not seem to have a magnitude, it reads the same irrespective of direction of current flow through the internal sense coil. Still, goes from 0-100A and should do the job.
WoW
Yeah - we've got to see some pics of this.
I ordered a SDG2082X from tequipment and got a shipping notice from them last night!
Most of them were just yet more Fluke 25s. I've got loads in stock, but usually sell a couple a week so more is always good.
There are also half a dozen Solartron 7150 6.5 digit meters. I'm hoping that they work, but at least there is a decent manual available for them so should be a fun fix if they do have problems.
Bought a GW Instek PSP-603 for £80 all inc from the Farnell trade counter. RRP was £288+VAT so I think I got a decent deal.
It's a 60V 3.5A switching bench power supply.
I bought a Pyle 1000WRMS 21 inch subwoofer.
I built my own cabinet for it.
Sounds very good.
one of these, but their crap, keeps swinging across the front of me and no way to lock it off, miss my old clarkes one but their now twice the price of this.
http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/22w-fluorescent-daylight-magnifier-lamp-a29ff
I have one of these, and as a magnifier & lamp it is basically OK. I made my own mounting base for it, as the standard one got in the way of the cupboard next to my bench, and a trick I used was to wrap PTFE thread tape around the swivelly bit of the arm to increase the diameter to the point that it just made a firm fit into the base. Stops it swinging about in the breeze, but still easy to move.
These have an inherent fault that means it isnt going to last long, the base spigot is a tube that has been cut half way through, bend it a bit and its game over as the lamp will flop on the ground.
The biggest apple strudel I've ever seen, I'd post a picture but it's already been dealt with
The biggest apple strudel I've ever seen, I'd post a picture but it's already been dealt with
I've got apple crumble for dinner tonight, but that will be home made rather than bought.
Got a little trigger happy at an online auction and bought a Keithley 2002 for $1550.
A 15KW, 0-80V 0-250A power supply. Weighs about 35Kg and I'm scared of it.