EEVlab Equipment List

[EEVblog]

How about an X-ray machine and / or electron microscope?
The X-ray can be used to get an idea of what something looks at the inside before opening it.

You need an radiation licence in Australia to buy one. I have looked into this before but IIRC it's a bit confusing.

[tautech]

How about an X-ray machine and / or electron microscope?
The X-ray can be used to get an idea of what something looks at the inside before opening it.

You need an radiation licence in Australia to buy one. I have looked into this before but IIRC it's a bit confusing.

Have you asked your dentist if he/she requires any special licensing ?

PS
To add, if you need guidance we have a couple of Xray experts Aurora/Fraser is the first to mind that could offer some good guidance and the other is Noopy with cool threads of IC layouts.

[bc888]

Like everyone who watches them, I love the Project Farm Videos. Like Dave and like Joe, that guy is very honest (please note I didn't say all of his reviews are perfect). But his love for the craft of reviewing things he wants to use shines through and is a great thing. Unfortunately, buying 15 locking pliers is substantially different in several way to what Dave is suggesting. 1st), you can buy every damned locking vice-grip brand made relatively cheap. Next, Vice grips are a widely used item that many many many people would be in the market for. Dave's products would be in a huge magnitude less.

That said, if Dave wants to do it because he wanted to see the result, likely money would follow. However, given the market/potential sales etc, it might not be productive for a while. I've enjoy craploads of Dave's videos. He has high trust with me, and I thank him for the efforts he's put into them, so awesome to be able to just click a mouse and get all of that effort put in front of my eyes. In fact, maybe it's time to shunt a bit more $ratch his way now and not take him for granted. I know that the project farm fella is getting rich with mega thousands of people both watching and clicking links, that ain't happening with Dave anywhere near that level.

Even better, Dave set this site up so I can tap into this amazing community, a beginner with minimal brain cells can talk to geniuses in their fields: you all are the best! Thanks all!

And thanks again to you  Dave! I do take you for granted at times, sorry mate. Here's the donation link if anyone else is feeling it like I am. https://www.eevblog.com/donations/

[thm_w]

Like everyone who watches them, I love the Project Farm Videos. Like Dave and like Joe, that guy is very honest (please note I didn't say all of his reviews are perfect). But his love for the craft of reviewing things he wants to use shines through and is a great thing. Unfortunately, buying 15 locking pliers is substantially different in several way to what Dave is suggesting. 1st), you can buy every damned locking vice-grip brand made relatively cheap. Next, Vice grips are a widely used item that many many many people would be in the market for. Dave's products would be in a huge magnitude less.

Sure, there are some possibilities: buy 15 different DC buck modules and test them to failure. Cost would be <$100.
Hours required would be huge though.

[EEVblog]

How about an X-ray machine and / or electron microscope?
The X-ray can be used to get an idea of what something looks at the inside before opening it.

You need an radiation licence in Australia to buy one. I have looked into this before but IIRC it's a bit confusing.

Have you asked your dentist if he/she requires any special licensing ?

I know that you cannot buy one (at least a serious one), import one, or sell one in this country without having some sort of license.
This is why the 2nd hand xray market doesn't exist here.

[EEVblog]

I do wonder how good my dungeon would be if it was converted into an RF anechoic chamber?

[Ed.Kloonk]

I do wonder how good my dungeon would be if it was converted into an RF anechoic chamber?

Only problem I see is any emergency lights etc the building requires might create RF chatter.

[EEVblog]

I do wonder how good my dungeon would be if it was converted into an RF anechoic chamber?

Only problem I see is any emergency lights etc the building requires might create RF chatter.

If I was serious then it would be shielded and the incoming mains would be filtered. Lights would have to be converted to pure DC driven LEDs
There is another level below, but I suspect that might have metal shielding inbetween like the roof does. The concrete on the side is physical earth soil as it's underground.

[nctnico]

I do wonder how good my dungeon would be if it was converted into an RF anechoic chamber?

But you'd need to spend north of US$ 100k to build a good one. A TEM cell is cheaper / less work and you can create very strong electric fields inside with relatively little power. Nice for testing immunity.  I'm planning on building a reasonably sized TEM cell myself in the next couple of months.

[EEVblog]

I do wonder how good my dungeon would be if it was converted into an RF anechoic chamber?

But you'd need to spend north of US$ 100k to build a good one. A TEM cell is cheaper / less work and you can create very strong electric fields inside with relatively little power. Nice for testing immunity.  I'm planning on building a reasonably sized TEM cell myself in the next couple of months.

Yeah, but not as cool looking!
IIRC AVX had something like this, Ron Demcko really talked up the software side of it, might talk to them.

[nctnico]

If you want to spend even more money on EMC equipment: get an ISN (not a LISN but an ISN). This is used to measure conducted emissions on differential pairs (for example equipment being powered over ethernet aka PoE).

[Neutrion]

Any kind of high or low energy surge test equipment. The low energy ones could be useful for general commercial line powered electronics, of which we have no idea how robust they are. (Solar power included)
I am especially interested in the robustness of the LNK -like switching power IC-s which are seemingly ruining thousands of tonnes of consumer electronics around the globe.

The high energy ones could be useful for testing protective devices (surge protectors, household fuses or more serious stuff), and for just blowing up things in an interesting way.     It's also good for the viewer counts.

(As I think about it a bit more, blowing up things this way is really valuable from economical, technical, and  even ethical point of view, so might the original idea behind some middle-eastern organisations was also something positive, just like with the communism. Alfred Nobel also started this way first, wonder why there is no such a thing as the Teller Final Peace Price)