Cupboard of doom doesn’t look any different. Still can’t work out how that works out
Doom expands to fill the space available...
... at which point The Hobby becomes much cheaper. If you want to buy something then you have to throw something out first, and we all know how difficult that is (bd139 excepted ).
No, then the car gets evicted and has to to live in the driveway.
Sorry, I'm one step ahead of you.
My car lives on the drive, or it would if the drive wasn't occupied by scaffolding.
Yes, there is some old test equipment in my even older asbestos sheet "garage", safely stored in a large sealed case
https://www.skbcases.com/music/products/proddetail.php?f=sku_type-hard-81&id=171&o=&offset=&c=81&s=81
Ack. Nothing I can afford though
453 is nice. I’ve owned two. First one the cat pissed in and blew it up. I didn’t know enough to deal with it then so I gave it to someone (years ago).
Hope the new owner managed to train the cat not to piss in TE...
That explains BD's hatred of cats then
One of the many reasons. It was bought as a mouser. All it did was wet the mice and observe me chasing the things round with a metal ruler. It also attacked my eldest out of the blue.
Honestly I don’t know why people like the things other than via toxoplasma Gondi infection.
Mhhhmmm... I think
there is the first mistake in that relationship...
mnem
A dog comes when it's called; a cat takes a message and will get back to you.
That wasnt the first cat. My parents had them too. Hated the bloody things then!
Meh.
I've had both... I don't value unconditional love the way most "dog people" do. Generally much prefer a pet with enough self-esteem that it will leave if you're a assh'o.
mnem
Ack. Nothing I can afford though
I thought you were going use petty cash to buy a second house in alpaca country!
Was bidding on a DMM, now i got a nice deal and bought all his TE, he is stopping his hobby....
therapy is not working.
Ack. Nothing I can afford though
I thought you were going use petty cash to buy a second house in alpaca country!
Yes but not if I buy lots of expensive test gear
The temptation has been there but it’s important that you objectively derive value from a purchase rather than end up with an ornament.
Edit: I’m still trying to justify a new keysight bench DMM. But I can’t really when the alternative is patience and a decisive eBay strike. As time is not a constraint for the project.
Just want to say thanks to TEA again in particular bd139, without this evil thread I would not have installed VS Code and learned Python.
What a powerful language, highly recommended!
Bye bye Visual Basic/C++ from the 2000....
Just want to say thanks to TEA again in particular bd139, without this evil thread I would not have installed VS Code and learned Python.
What a powerful language, highly recommended!
Bye bye Visual Basic/C++ from the 2000....
2000 is new.... i am learning python...little by little, but am programming daily in Foxpro 2.6 and visual... from ?? before i was born??
but indexing stuff is great in foxpro, only this blody 2Gb limit.. and memory and.. and...
For learning the Python basis
this did the trick for me.
Fox what?
Just want to say thanks to TEA again in particular bd139, without this evil thread I would not have installed VS Code and learned Python.
What a powerful language, highly recommended!
Bye bye Visual Basic/C++ from the 2000....
For learning the Python basis this did the trick for me.
Fox what?
moo. Sick minds think alike.
mnem
Ack. Nothing I can afford though
I thought you were going use petty cash to buy a second house in alpaca country!
Yes but not if I buy lots of expensive test gear
The temptation has been there but it’s important that you objectively derive value from a purchase rather than end up with an ornament.
Edit: I’m still trying to justify a new keysight bench DMM. But I can’t really when the alternative is patience and a decisive eBay strike. As time is not a constraint for the project.
It's ambiguous, but it looks like that haul might include a 6.5 digit Agilent DMM plus a 5.5 digit DMM plus some switches.
Not that ambiguous, it does include a 5.5 & a 6.5 DMM but they are both VXI headles units. The 5.5 will proabaly be in a dedicated slot.
Yeah not touching VXI and all that NI stuff. That leads to LabSPEW.
Just outbid on a fluke 27. Grr.
You're all just jealous 'cause you can't lick you own balls !
If I was able to do that there would be something seriously wrong with me ...
Well, as you have a husband, technically you do own at least one pair...
mnem
look in the fine print. yup.
Just outbid on a fluke 27. Grr.
Great little meters, doubles up as a hammer. Has a great hold function for taking readings in tight spaces, press hold, probe circuit and meter will bleep each time a new reading is taken, very useful.