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

[raptor1956]

See pics...

Nice! Thanks for the other pics.

Thanks,

The entire metal rack is just 4 foot wide and my wooden rack inside that is 45 inches wide outside dimension and 16.5 inches tall and 11.75 inches deep.  As I mentioned the Rigol DP832 is deeper than my rack and extends a few inches beyond it.  I tried to balance the weight left/right and front/back as best I could for stability -- you don't want a hundred or more pounds of expensive equipment falling on you.

Being space constrained has it's problems, but then again with this setup everything is within arms reach while seated.  The DIY LED overhead light provides great lighting that's even across the whole table and it illuminates the Acro-Mils cabinets sufficiently to read the labels as well as illuminate the instruments so all buttons and knobs are easy to see and read.

If I had a lot more space I think I'd still have a workbench more-or-less like this for the majority of my test equipment and use the other space to layout and build stuff.  I might separate the soldering stuff to, but until I need to add more components the space is sufficient and laid out in the most workable way for me. 

It is pretty amazing just how much stuff some guys have and the poster boy for that has to be "Mr Carlsons Lab" -- there has to be a quarter million in gear in there and I'm pretty sure I'm being conservative with that guess.


Brian

[TheSteve]

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 .

Yeah, we still wanna see...

[mtdoc]

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 .

Yeah, we still wanna see...

Yes we do.

With all due respect to those with neat and tidy test equipment display cases, it's the messy workbenches that are the most interesting - IMHO of course...

[TiN]

Okay, I warned you

Wasted spent last night calibrating/testing 2001s.

[HighVoltage]

Okay, I warned you

Wasted spent last night calibrating/testing 2001s.

Always really nice to see your lab benches and the many high end instruments with special screen information.
Just great!

[bitseeker]

Okay, I warned you

Wasted spent last night calibrating/testing 2001s.

Looks like you're having good fun there, TiN.

[xrunner]

Okay, I warned you

I thought it was going to be a lot worse than that. 

[Martin.M]

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?

this would be impossible.

greetings
Martin

[Jester]

A portion of my lab.

[Falkra]

Well that's a very nice portion !

[Dielectric]

Hey Jester, I like those two little spotlights.  Where did you find them?

[HighVoltage]

It looks like you have an old SHARP BASIC calculator laying there, or is it a CASIO?
I have one of these always around in the lab.
Nice setup

[MudMan]

Hey Jester, I like those two little spotlights.  Where did you find them?

IKEA "Jansjö"

[AF6LJ]

Nice stuff. There are some good looking labs here. 

[ZeTeX]

Why have a big lab when you can just have this?

[JuiceKing]

I started with something like this, and it was a fantastic trainer from Radio Shack. The KILLER shortcoming was the poor quality of the accompanying lab book. Convoluted schematics, repetitious examples, and hazy explanations didn't do justice to the possibilities. Imagine they had packaged this with Forrest Mims books and examples!

[rrinker]

 Which Radio Shack one did you have? I had several, and the books WERE all clear and concise, often with both pictorials as well as schematics to make it easy to hook up. And a theory of operation. I had the 100 in one in the wooden case, and the 150 in one in the wooden case. I was beyond that level by the time the 200 in one in the plastic case came out, so no idea on that one. But the manuals on the ones I had WERE written by Forrest Mims.

 

[JuiceKing]

I had, and still have the 150-in-1 kit, in the wooden box. The manual was not written by Forrest Mims, so you must have had a different edition.  The manual I have has 150 different wiring diagrams and schematics, but neither they, nor the notes, make it clear what's going on. It's really too bad, because a trainer like this could be the best way to learn!

[technix]

Why have a big lab when you can just have this?

I still remember mine. The guide book had 131 circuit diagrams on mine and I came up with a few circuits myself too.

[AmmoJammo]

Excuse the missing transistor, it may have failed somehow 

[AF6LJ]

I had this one...

[SoundSpud]

I bought a (cheap) power supply, up until this point I was making do with a 12V supply from a HP server that I used to power my LiPo Chargers, but recent projects needed a little more control.
A new supply meant a new shelf... Quite like my setup now - Great for tinkering and repairing things.

[DTJ]

Hey Jester, I like those two little spotlights.  Where did you find them?

IKEA "Jansjö"

Look at officeworks (if you have it where you are), they have a similar LED lamp but it has 3 times the Lumens and is a bit whiter. cost is about $20.

[Dielectric]

Hey Jester, I like those two little spotlights.  Where did you find them?

IKEA "Jansjö"

Thank you, I acquired two.  They're only $9.99 USD and put out a really nice spot of light!  Highly recommended, two thumbs up 

[PartialDischarge]

I bought a (cheap) power supply, up until this point I was making do with a 12V supply from a HP server that I used to power my LiPo Chargers, but recent projects needed a little more control.
A new supply meant a new shelf... Quite like my setup now - Great for tinkering and repairing things.

very nice smoke vent. Few people have that in a home lab