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

[BFX]

Long time I deal with small place and now it's time to upgrade

Wow, you have quite a bit of gear!   Nice setup !

Thx
Few of gears are still outside but now I should go to business trip to Germany.
I will finish lab setup when I will be back. Also ergonomy of this setup is in tuning process.

[rdl]

I moved out of a closet and into a corner of the bedroom last winter. You can see the empty shelves here. I immediately messed it up with a project, and it has been that way all year. This week I decided to straighten up the mess and take some pictures.

[Falkra]

Very nice pics. And now you can restore the mess. 

[alank2]

I like the wall of tools and leads!  Very nice!

[rdl]

The peg board is pretty nice. A couple more pictures are here.

All tools within easy reach but out of the way. It was a little expensive but I don't regret buying it. It's plastic, so it doesn't shred and crumble like cheaper ones can.

The leads do take up a lot of space though. At the moment that's not a problem, but eventually I'll need something else for them.

[julian1]

Long time I deal with small place and now it's time to upgrade

It looks like you have a DER 5000 handheld LCR meter and a Agilent 4263b bench LCR (unless it's a milliohm meter).

Which one do you prefer, and for what use-cases? 

[CoffinDodger]

working with the space i've got.  Using a double sided bin cart for component storage but thinking i'll do better replacing the bins with mini drawers.



Equipment:

Power:                      Rigol DP832
O-Scope:                  Rigol DS1054Z
Function generator:  BK 4003A
Solder:                      Weller WES51
Hot Air:                     Aoyue 853A++ Pro
Multimeter:               Fluke 87 (just 87, first gen. THANK YOU eBAY!)

my traning site has Aigilent 33250A generators and i've become super jealous of those right now.

[mtdoc]

I love it. Bedside soldering!   

If you're young and single even better..  "Hey, wanna see my breadboard?" 

[CoffinDodger]

lol i'll tell you what.  You joke but women are all about the breadboard these days.  Toss in some aromatic leaded solder and let the romance begin.

[mtdoc]

lol i'll tell you what.  You joke but women are all about the breadboard these days.  Toss in some aromatic leaded solder and let the romance begin.

Not to mention the possibilities that dremmel tool might present... 

[raptor1956]

Just finished off some things so this is mostly complete at this point.

In the FG I have a 2' x 4' plywood table finished with polyurethane and in addition I have a sacrificial work surface of 24" x 16" x 0.25" MDF that has a rubberized bottom glued to it so the board doesn't mar the table or slide around.  I use the sacrificial board for dirty work like soldering.  When it gets too dirty I just take a sander to it and ... new surface.

Above and out of the FOV is a home made LED work light made from three 750mm strips of LED lighting in the 4000-4500K range.  Picked up a cheap $5 replacement laptop power adapter (90W) that outputs 19VDC and in the box in the lower right side with the blue number 10.4 on it I have a small buck converter to power the LED's.

The 858B Hot Air Gun above it has the cradle remoted so the gun isn't in my rack while on and to make it easier to reach and make use of.  Someone mentioned the the cradle needs to be grounded, but the exterior of the cradle is plastic so how is the ground supposed to do anything?

Many of my cables and accessories are stored in clear plastic tubs from Sistema -- the "Klip It" line of storage boxes. Really nice boxes.  Parts storage above is in two kinds of Acro-Mills cabinets.  The MDF pigeon hole rack was designed and made by me to fit around the test equipment and provide storage holes for the cables and such I have stored in those Sistema boxes.


Brian

[hammy]

[...] The MDF pigeon hole rack was designed and made by me to fit around the test equipment and provide storage holes for the cables and such I have stored in those Sistema boxes.[...]

Great! 

AFAIK in the cradle is a magnet worked in to shut off the hotair-gun.

[raptor1956]

[...] The MDF pigeon hole rack was designed and made by me to fit around the test equipment and provide storage holes for the cables and such I have stored in those Sistema boxes.[...]

Great! 

AFAIK in the cradle is a magnet worked in to shut off the hotair-gun.

Yes, there's a magnet in the cradle to pick the reed switch to put the gun into sleep mode, but there was a comment about the need to ground the cradle but that seems odd given the fact that the outer housing is plastic.


Brian

[chickenHeadKnob]

[...] The MDF pigeon hole rack was designed and made by me to fit around the test equipment and provide storage holes for the cables and such I have stored in those Sistema boxes.[...]

Great! 

AFAIK in the cradle is a magnet worked in to shut off the hotair-gun.

Yes, there's a magnet in the cradle to pick the reed switch to put the gun into sleep mode, but there was a comment about the need to ground the cradle but that seems odd given the fact that the outer housing is plastic.

Brian

I like your cubby-hole arrangement but I would be concerned that the power supplies get too hot in its confines.

[BFX]

Long time I deal with small place and now it's time to upgrade

It looks like you have a DER 5000 handheld LCR meter and a Agilent 4263b bench LCR (unless it's a milliohm meter).

Which one do you prefer, and for what use-cases?

DER is good handheld for common usage like checking capacitors during repairing and so , Agilent is much precise and best for measurement of components which I plan to use in filters , oscillators and so where is precision and also other parameters of inductors or capacitors very important.

[Martin.M]

some scopes there 

[HighVoltage]

some scopes there 

Always a pleasure to see your scopes.
And they are probably all working.
Do you have enough power coming in to your house to power them all at once?

some Multimeters there 
(Just fixed one without effort)

[JustSquareEnough]

Just finished off some things so this is mostly complete at this point.

...

Brian

Nice setup Brian! any more pictures from further out, curious on the attachment of the table and your diy lights.

[CoffinDodger]

some scopes there 

Everytime i see a gathering of some older tech like that i just can't get over all the knobs! I just want to touch all the knobs! I mean, who doesn't? Right!?

Always a pleasure to see your scopes.
And they are probably all working.
Do you have enough power coming in to your house to power them all at once?

some Multimeters there 
(Just fixed one without effort)

I know i haven't seen enough labs to judge but holy meters batman.  You're an Agilent investor aren't you?

[bitseeker]

some Multimeters there 
(Just fixed one without effort)

I know i haven't seen enough labs to judge but holy meters batman.  You're an Agilent investor aren't you?

You have to see his entire collection, CoffinDodger!

[raptor1956]

[...] The MDF pigeon hole rack was designed and made by me to fit around the test equipment and provide storage holes for the cables and such I have stored in those Sistema boxes.[...]

Great! 

AFAIK in the cradle is a magnet worked in to shut off the hotair-gun.

Yes, there's a magnet in the cradle to pick the reed switch to put the gun into sleep mode, but there was a comment about the need to ground the cradle but that seems odd given the fact that the outer housing is plastic.

Brian

I like your cubby-hole arrangement but I would be concerned that the power supplies get too hot in its confines.

Not a problem, as I detail in the video about it the bumpers on the PS prevent you from pushing it too close to a vertical surface and starving the unit for cooling air.  The DP832 is longer than my wooden rack and extends a few inches past it.  All the equipment have fans at the back except the DS1054Z scope and with good clearance on the sides and the back being 100% open there is no problem.  Even the shelf they sit on is perforated and the metal rack is even more open.  The Tekpower PS on the right is spaced away from the function generator by the same bumper arrangements and is also located by a locking board glued to the top of the shelf it sits on.  It is locked in place to prevent slippage and to maintain necessary clearances.

The part of the system I like best is the Sistema Klip It boxes I use for my cables, leads, probes and adapters -- keeps them organized and helps to prevent tangling.  Again, the video shows that off pretty well.


Brian

[raptor1956]

Just finished off some things so this is mostly complete at this point.

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Brian

Nice setup Brian! any more pictures from further out, curious on the attachment of the table and your diy lights.

See pics...

The table has two front legs inset a few inches and hooked over a rack shelf at the back to help to locate it properly.  I've tested for stability and there's no problem -- I've sat on the desk and all is well.  When I need to access the lower shelves for my telescope stiff I can unhook the table and lift it out of the way in a few seconds.

The DIY LED light is made up of three strips of LED lights 750mm long.  Just above the top of the table in the right corner is the control box with a blue LED display showing the voltage output from the buck converter inside that drives the LED's.  The primary power comes from a $6 replacement laptop power supply rated at 90W and 19V but the most power I pull from it is half that and typically a quarter of that.  Inside the box the power is controlled by a front panel switch then it goes to the buck converter that's rated at 150W.  I modified the buck converter to add the external potentiometer to the outside for voltage output control.  Voltage output ranges from 6.1V to 12.5V at the output and with the voltage drop the max at the LED's is 12.2V -- and again, I seldom run much above 11V and that's where it is in the pictures.

Living in an apartment means I can't build large built in racks that are nailed/screwed to the walls or floor -- I have to make do with the space I have.


Brian

[Messtechniker]

And another picture from old VHS covers, which I use for probes.

What a great idea!  Just started hunting around amongst my friends for some.

Yours Messtechniker

[TiN]

I'd bet noone wants to see what mess I have in my room atm, with bits and pieces of random gear everywhere  .
Too much airports and travels lately .

[JustSquareEnough]

See pics...

Nice! Thanks for the other pics.