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most broken equipment you run into?
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xrunner:

--- Quote from: floobydust on December 10, 2023, 12:51:41 am ---#1 busted test equipment I see at work is bench power supplies. I went through over 6 repairing them and adding protection diodes if they were missing.
No engineering budget dollars to buy new ones, so I simply fixed them while jr. engineers were bamboozled I would take them apart and knew what I was doing in there.

For other tagged test equipment, it can be people not knowing how to use it and thinking the scope is defective when it's not showing what they want or expect.
I was doing probe comp and again the jr. engineers were fascinated what I was doing turning a trimcap in the probe so square waves looked proper.

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Yep power supplies and power testing equipment. I sometimes help out a local company that makes a few products because I know the owner. I just repaired a Topward TPS-4000 for him which had a broken power switch (the metal switch stem was snapped off). He also has a Agilent 6050A electronic load which has a suspiciously loose AC input connector. Might be dangerous I don't know yet. But they are both heavy and people have trouble moving them around. So I guess my answer to the question is - anything that is very heavy is some of the most broken equipment out there.
chickenHeadKnob:
Probably not what coppercone was looking for or expecting:
anything from my father's age which had bakelite cases, like simpson meters. It seemed everything we had in bakelite had a corner chipped off. They still functioned ok, so not really in the totally fuxored category. Out of curiosity I googled and found you can still buy Simpsons new! $1000+ canuck bucks at Mouser.ca. https://www.mouser.ca/c/test-measurement/multimeters-voltmeters/analog-multimeters/?m=Simpson What the hell? who is buying these?

I had a colleague that was expert in overloading function generators and blowing them out. Not sure if that qualifies either.
coppercone2:
I can totally see someone using an analog meter for doing regular shit. its like visible and you learn what the needle bounce could mean for regular circuits.

and if you are doing brain-dead measurements then just knowing the needle % is way easier then interpreting a number

alot of people can't stand number clocks even, let alone number meters, the digits are like imposing, the dial tells you like a percent of

LOL at what would happen if cars only had a # display
factory:
Ebay's reporting algorithm  :box:, it seems to reject every report I make for; search manipulation, brand name spamming and incorrect catagories.

David
Kim Christensen:

--- Quote from: chickenHeadKnob on December 10, 2023, 08:52:44 am ---Out of curiosity I googled and found you can still buy Simpsons new! $1000+ canuck bucks at Mouser.ca. https://www.mouser.ca/c/test-measurement/multimeters-voltmeters/analog-multimeters/?m=Simpson What the hell? who is buying these?
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Maybe someone who doesn't want to rewrite old test procedures. Sounds like something the military would do.
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