Glug is similar in concept to a
nybble being
half a byte. Pretty straightforward, actually.
I just set a honeycrisp apple pie out to cool and the whole house smells of fructose, flaky butter crust & cinnamon. I'm a horrible cheater though... my local grocery has a half-decent bakery; I buy from them and crisp up the crust in my convection oven when I'm ready to eat it.
Apple pie with a slice of sharp cheddar melted on top & coffee with too much HWC for breakfast... yummmmm.
I LOVE my convection oven, never doubt. *settles in with a good book*
mnem
Is it a Publix, by chance? The Publix here has a great bakery for being in a grocery store. BU, your work looks fantastic and probably tastes it also. I am a good cook (not chef) but baking eludes me. Probably because it is formulaic, where as when I am making Italian food, if the house smells like it did growing up, I have it right. No recipes, playing with ingredients until it is there.
Naah... it's a Kroger. They are a crapshoot; I've lived next to a dozen of 'em since I moved to Tejas, and maybe 4 of 'em had what I'd consider a decent bakery. Same with HEB, though I feel that across the chain, their meat dept standards are generally at least an order of magnitude better than anything short of Boar's Head or similar "upscale" meateries.
Texas is, in general, an utterly uncultured cesspool of commercial-hype bullshit in every respect. Food especially. Every block has a dozen BBQ, Mexican or Tex-Mex eateries proclaiming to be "the real taste of Texas" or somesuch... in reality about 1 in 10 serves anything I'd consider to be edible, and 1 in 10 of those serve what I'd call actual "food".
mnem
If I never smell Mexican food again in my life it'll be too fucking soon.
I'm sure you heard the saying "Everything's bigger in Texas". Well, everything's bullshit in Texas because they are so full of themselves.
Quote from: Ero-Shan on Yesterday at 09:52:05(And don't ask me what 'GLUG' stands for - I haven't found the definition yet.)
It comes from "a small drink", such as when, if you were passing a mug of beer around and each person took a 'glug' from the mug so as to leave some for the next in line. The best definition by the engineers at Solartron is in this paragraph from the 7075 maintenance manual:
When I read 'glug', the first thing that popped up in my mind was this: The onomatopoetic word for drinking, but that seemed just too remote.
Also the glug-glug-glug sound when slowly pouring a liquid out of a narrow-necked bottle, e.g. wine.
As you so rightly say, it's about having respect for the reader.
Thank you very much. At least I'm not alone.
Such respect is no longer common, which illustrates the value of professional editors and it not being too easy to publish stuff
Got my second new-in-the-package P6106A today. Now the trick will be finding two more because I am going to be getting another 7A26 relatively soon.
@Ero-Shan, Yep, the plastics on those 7045 is pure crap, I used to have one of them and I'd say that they were more consumer grade personally. The one that you showing 1.0000k, I see has the dreaded missing LED indicator telling the user what range it is, V, I, R etc.
I soon got shot of my one of those, although it was spot on across all ranges, the plastic case was a rubbish, the push buttons would stick if I stacked anything on top because the plastics was broken away and that tilting display did nothing to help either.
@Ero-Shan, Yep, the plastics on those 7045 is pure crap, I used to have one of them and I'd say that they were more consumer grade personally. The one that you showing 1.0000k, I see has the dreaded missing LED indicator telling the user what range it is, V, I, R etc.
I soon got shot of my one of those, although it was spot on across all ranges, the plastic case was a rubbish, the push buttons would stick if I stacked anything on top because the plastics was broken away and that tilting display did nothing to help either.
Yes, the plastic....
After I took pictures of the inside for
someone, I lost one of the standoff threads. Otherwise, I found it to be quite reliable and stable (electrically). No problems with the buttons on mine.
Yes, it was down to the poor plastics, part of the sides, where they overlap had broken off on mine so the top half was sitting too low and catching the button mechanism, I had to improvise some spacers to over come the problem.
I don't know why, but I guess I just had a hole in my wants that needed to be filled with a Universal counter instead of just a plain frequency counter. I bought a HP 5316B counter on Ebay last night. I think it will look good on top of my HP 5385A.
Oh, yeah, I also bought what is probably the last surviving supposedly 'new' display module for a 5385A. What the hell. Peace of mind.
Very nice! Universal counters come in handy. I love my 5335A.
I've had a few 5316B's, very nice counters.
Very nice! Universal counters come in handy. I love my 5335A.
Awesome! How many did you count?
So far I'm up to ONE. And I counted that on one hand. With direct observation.
mnem
For your reading pleasure, Here's today's
My extender kit build went swimmingly until I realized that I soldered all the through-hole components on the wrong side of the board in spite of the fact that there is a silkscreen and this is the second extender I have built.
I say to myself,
Here's the bright side. You get to try out the new FR301 desoldering tool you bought and which has been in the box, unused, for a month... . I get out the FR301, my solder wick, flux pen, etc. I clip parts off the board, crank up the new tool and clear the board without lifting a pad. I even managed to get the test points out without damaging them.
Not bad, bill, looks like you dodged a bullet.I solder the test points onto the right side of the board, dig up five new LEDs, and being careful to put them in the board in the right orientation, solder four of them into place, when I realize that I've put them where the two pin jumpers are to be installed.
I turn off the soldering station and lights and slowly back away from the bench.
I don't think I am going to cook dinner tonight. Probably a good evening for ordering in.
Better have SWMBO do it. No telling what damage you can do with a smartphone in your current state.
mnem
DOOOD! You found the remote to my suborbital crowbar launcher!!! *FWOOOOOOOM!* Dude... my car... Seriously? I just made the last payment...
So today brought a new toy from
kj7e, my very own 53310 Modulation Domain Analyzer.
The good news is that this is an awesome toy that I never knew I needed.
...the sad news is that UPS managed to break off one of the rear panel "feet" even with the excellent packing job.
I've got all the pieces so tomorrow I'm going to try to JB weld it back together.
And for good measure a VOR (VHF Omnidirectional Range) test signal from my 8664A sig gen.
I decided to try the old Dumont 274-A
Oscillograph (I guess the word oscilloscope was not invented yet
) I got part of the lot I fetched earlier this week. The inside was kind of clean but was still waiting for an explosion when I plugged-in the beast. I was astonished to see that it was kind of working. Probably need a good recap though
Talking about caps I'm probably too young but it's the first time I see those brown capacitor in wax. They look like wine bottle cork.
...However, the MasTech has a CFM mode, calculated against a diameter an area you enter. I think if I do the sealed box thing, then cut a hole the right size for the venturi ring to seal against, I'll be able to do an apples-to-apples comparison against the stock blower no matter WHAT fan or blower I have on the back. Plus I can do idling and warmed up airflow against my working 2465 without having to open her up, and then do min/max airflow with stock blower idling/thermistor jumpered to MAX on my parts mule. And I can keep all the modded fans in/about the parts mule as well.
The Specs on the one I am getting are here. http://www.spectroscopic.com/Airflow/LCA6000va_airflow.pdf They can actually be Calibrated to a standard and are very accurate compared to the Chinese cheapies.
What the cheapies were always good for getting an idea of airspeed for us as we raised or lowered ballast in the gliders based partly on that ground figure. The bigger vaned Mastech should be better than the pocket ones. What I have been using or an older version of eBay auction: #181817310248 notice in the specs resolution is claimed but NEVER accuracy
Yeah, that is EXACTLY the one I have, only mine is yellow. The Mastech has full specs in the manual I linked above; they don't sound fabulous but at least they're there. Supposedly, it also can be calibrated.
Lessee... Resolution 0.01 in all scales, accuracy +/- 2% plus 5-50 char...? I'd hazard a guess that means real accuracy of 2% of scale, +/- half the last decimal. Funny, anything over 100K/H is "For Reference Only" Still, should be plenty accurate enough for a comparative analysis.
Fuck... I just realized... I've spent over $50 on this experiment already, between blowers and that anemometer. And that's not counting the Dell Server fan, which while technically was "free" salvage, is still a $25-ish name-brand part, even used. And I'm probably gonna chop up another one before I'm done.
mnem
*Stupid Human Tricks*
Well, it's here. And boy, is it ever sensitive. As in, just breathing on it (not blowing at it... just breathing normally) will make the impeller move and generate a reading. Unfortunately, the built-in FLOW VOLUME calculator only accepts DUCT AREA inputs in m
2 or ft
2 which, for direct reading based on the area of the venturi ring, means only the last 1 or 2 significant digits have useful data. (ie 0.037ft
2) This tells me that the resultant FLOW measurements will probably not have very high absolute accuracy, especially in the more sensitive CM/S and CF/M ranges. However... for our comparative analysis, I believe it should be fine.
Guess I need to get to work making an airbox...
mnem
glerp?
Sounds more promising for low speed DC fans
Still waiting on mine but I think it will be taking the scenic route via two states capitals due to it and my origin.
Playing amateur Ham today my little baofeng turned up - stock antenna is
so I have used most of my coax test leads joined to get it up a small pole
Hitting a repeater 30+km away so not terrible even with that dodge. Discone and a proper pole in the near future for this and the SDR playing.
And this slightly crusty PAT box I scored for not to much. Scrubbing brush and industrial detergent time.
edit: Photo of what is under the bonnet. ATMEGA84 based. Much safer to scrub the outer with the electrics out.
mnem, as requested, comparison photos attached below.
This photos confirmed that the blue case is identical, while the back cover, the B version has a really tiny bump to accommodate the thicker internal axial fan, not suitable I guess.
Added to POI.
On we go with the Solartron week.
Today's episode is titled "The strange case of the 7061". Of course there'll be lots of biggish but useless pictures and some daft commentary.
Also added.
Warning....picture heavy post. 7904 Porn.
This one, too.
Another day in the Solartron week. Today we're going to take a look at the 7060.
I was not prepared for this Solartron mass ejection.
Added.
We're not done yet. The Solartron week continues ...
My little stack of 7045s
Will it ever end?
It's all good, really.