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[Nominal Animal]

That is either a very nicely made miniature pallet, or the biggest dildo I've ever seen.

How much power (as in watts) do those things have/need?


As to my own purchase, a new key fob for my brother's car.  Needed new plastic parts and replacement buttons (4mm by 3mm ones, SMD).

[TopLoser]

RS010N, only needs 2KVA and a single phase supply is just fine.

20 years ago the controller was 3 phase only, the size of a VERY large fridge and weighed 150Kg. The controller for this latest model is in the smallest box on that pallet. Weighs only a few Kg but throws the robot around like a rag doll - over twice the speed of the old controllers.

At the tool tip you can get speeds of 12m/s and repeatability of 0.03mm over that 1.4m reach.

https://robotics.kawasaki.com/en1/products/robots/small-medium-payloads/RS010N/

They had a 1500Kg payload version at the warehouse when I picked this one up. Didn’t ask the price of that one (this one was about £25k)

[Nominal Animal]

(For those who don't realize how fast 12m/s is, it is about 43 km/h or 27 mph.  Scary fast for a metal dildo arm to whip past your head, or any other body part.  The acceleration and jerk (third derivative of position) involved must be rather.. interesting.)

[Vgkid]

Dell precision 7540

With specs practically the same as the ones in this article:
https://www.servethehome.com/dell-precision-7540-review/2/
Except 1080p display
And this, eev related
Fluke 720a kvd

[capt bullshot]

Dell precision 7540

Nice machine but totally crap OS.

[Zucca]

Keithley 2306 197,77 USD shipped to Germany!!!!!

[Vgkid]

Dell precision 7540

That's a POWERFUL one!

Yes, the only other difference is the fact that my unit has 16gb of ram. I will max it to 64. Still double what my old laptop(m4800) had. Still plan on troubleshooting my 4800. Graphics is all distored under an external monitor(black screen using laptop display)and doesn't boot into bios.

Dell precision 7540

Nice machine but totally crap OS.

I actually like W10 for the most part. Had very few problems with it(do run classic shell)
Heck I even liked Vista , a lot...

[shakalnokturn]

Some more Flukin' meters:

Fluke 1587, 55€ posted, some battery spew, fuse needs replacing.
Solartron 7054, 22€ posted, quick check looks good.
Facom 711 (aka Chauvin Arnoux 5220), 15€ posted, contacts need cleaning & lexan replacing.

[TopLoser]

Philips Heartstart MRx manual/auto defibrillator and ecg monitor. Recent new battery and PAT test, with paddles, ecg leads, and pads, £40! New price was £10k+

[Shock]

Great for use at parties.

[Ed.Kloonk]

Great for use at parties.

Red alligator clip, right nipple.

[beanflying]

Great for use at parties.

Red alligator clip, right nipple.

Like the old Megger lesson of my secondary school days, everyone join hands in a circle and hold the wires at each end while I crank this handle  In a room of boys he with the sweatiest hands and weakest grip got booted 

[lukego]

Used JBC AD2700 for $110.

I have a Hakko 888D that I love but I'm curious to experience some other stations in case they are much better (as some people say) and it'd be handy to have a second station because it seems to take 10 minutes to change the tip on my Hakko.

Haven't pulled the trigger yet but the price seems to be right and people in the forum say it's representative of JBC irons.

[lukego]

Used JBC AD2700 for $110.

Changed my mind at the last minute and ordered an Ersa i-Con Nano with a few chisel and gull-wing tips.

Maybe a waste of time since I already have the 888D with BCF tips but I want to see the difference for myself (and having one iron that's slow to change tips on is leading to often not using the tip I want.)

[McBryce]

I'm a long time Ersa iCon user and can fully recommend them. But if you want to regularly swap tips while the iron is hot, then I'd advise you to invest in a second (or third) tip holder. This isn't part of the tip and is extremely difficult to swap from one tip to another when the tip is floating around 360°C.

McBryce.

This bit:
https://www.ebay.de/itm/Ersa-Lotspitzenbefestigung-fur-I-Tool-schwarz-3IT1040-00/184160765327

[lukego]

I'm a long time Ersa iCon user and can fully recommend them. But if you want to regularly swap tips while the iron is hot, then I'd advise you to invest in a second (or third) tip holder. This isn't part of the tip and is extremely difficult to swap from one tip to another when the tip is floating around 360°C.

Thanks for the tip. I did see this recommendation in the forum archives earlier and so I ordered a separate tip holder for each tip.

[BBBbbb]

Philips Heartstart MRx manual/auto defibrillator and ecg monitor. Recent new battery and PAT test, with paddles, ecg leads, and pads, £40! New price was £10k+

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Can it spot weld?

Awesome find... 

[lukego]

500ml of Galden LS230

[djos]

On a recommendation from a friend I just bought 2 rolls of Chip Quik SMDSW.031 1LB Leaded No-Clean, Water Soluble Solder.

Should be interesting as I’m fed up with scrubbing everything I make with IPA, then rinsing, then scrubbing some more to get the flux off. Apparently with this flux core solder you clean the PCB in water then give it a quick rinse with IPA to get rid of the water and you are done.



https://www.digikey.com.au/product-detail/en/SMDSW.031+1LB/SMDSW.0311LB-ND/7669681?utm_medium=email&utm_source=oce&utm_campaign=3037_OCE20RT&utm_content=productdetail_AU&utm_cid=346222&so=63058757&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTkdVek5HVmlaamRpWldJNSIsInQiOiJ5QTgwZytmVytTZ00wUEFHUnYwTXFKUEFlZ0xuTnVPdmNWQU1kZTkxckNqRTlxa3JxOVR4eFNFaExWdm82MVJNTGR5bE9ldEYySEI3SnNReFBlc3FFcExvSFhDNHBHdzlYN0orVG52SzZGTXFxK0FqRGtEbjJlRjJ1UWdISTBzQSJ9

[Mr. Scram]

Philips Heartstart MRx manual/auto defibrillator and ecg monitor. Recent new battery and PAT test, with paddles, ecg leads, and pads, £40! New price was £10k+

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That's one of those things I have zero use for but would have bought as well.

[TopLoser]

Philips Heartstart MRx manual/auto defibrillator and ecg monitor. Recent new battery and PAT test, with paddles, ecg leads, and pads, £40! New price was £10k+

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That's one of those things I have zero use for but would have bought as well.

It’s a lovely quality thing and some superb operator and service manuals all available online.

Blood pressure, blood oxygen, breath C02, temperature, ECG (3-12 lead) all monitored and logged automatically. Internal (chest open!) and external defib paddles, normal disposable defib pads. Bluetooth, ethernet and RS232 interfaces, 2 lithium battery packs with calibration function, continuous background self checks and results logging. Voice recording, voice prompts for AED mode, pacemaking, manual defib. Built in printer...

Astonishing things!
Boots up ready for use in less than 2 seconds, non of that Linux/Windows nonsense in these!

[Mr. Scram]

It’s a lovely quality thing and some superb operator and service manuals all available online.

Blood pressure, blood oxygen, breath C02, temperature, ECG (3-12 lead) all monitored and logged automatically. Internal (chest open!) and external defib paddles, normal disposable defib pads. Bluetooth, ethernet and RS232 interfaces, 2 lithium battery packs with calibration function, continuous background self checks and results logging. Voice recording, voice prompts for AED mode, pacemaking, manual defib. Built in printer...

Astonishing things!
Boots up ready for use in less than 2 seconds, non of that Linux/Windows nonsense in these!

Boot times have rarely mattered more. 

[TerraHertz]

A box of fragments.

HP 66312A 0-20V/0-2A DYNAMIC MEASUREMENT DC SOURCE
Basically a DC power supply with lots of dynamic monitoring features.
Won for US $21.50 but it's heavy so the shipping (via ebay Global Shipping Program) was costly:
  Domestic leg         $65.45
  International leg   $61.28
  Import charges     $19.41

And then... it arrived massively smashed.



More pics: http://everist.org/pics/smashed/smashed.htm

It could be worse. According to ebay on the phone just now, they are going to refund in full. Item plus shipping.
This means I get a free jig saw puzzle to try and piece together. Visually it appears all the electronics survived, amazingly. But powering it up will be the test. Most lucky: the VFD is intact.  In fact the whole front display board seems undamaged, apart from some bent tabs on the spinner wheel sensor. So the thing may be salvageable. Though it's never going to look pretty.

[Ed.Kloonk]

Don't turn it on, smash it apart!

[bitseeker]

Woah! That's a lot of pieces. It really is amazing that the VFD survived that shake-n-bake. I hope it runs OK and you're able to snag a deal on a dead one for a face transplant.