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Specmaster:
We used to have a perfectly good fleet of Harriers, Jaguars, Tornadoes and some nice new shiny Nimrods until the government of the day decided that we could afford a peace dividend and scrapped them all. Now only have a few serviceable aircraft and a brand new carrier with no aircraft to fly from it? On top of that we are now in Brexit talks so once thats done and dusted we won't be in a position defend our self.

Not a good position to be in with all the unrest in the world right now.

Specmaster:
If anyone is interested this meter has just appeared on Ebay and it has a 4.5 / 5.5 digit button but it is also a 6.5 digit meter which is activated by pressing the ** button then the 5.5 button and its British.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Thurlby-1905A-5-5-Digit-Bench-Multimeter/202300710555?_trkparms=aid%3D888007%26algo%3DDISC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D50545%26meid%3D93e8ac1e98ad45979795a71f38c0780f%26pid%3D100009%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D1%26sd%3D253593975145%26itm%3D202300710555&_trksid=p2047675.c100009.m1982

mnementh:

--- Quote from: med6753 on May 04, 2018, 09:57:52 am ---USPS delivery yesterday. 3 boxes. What's inside them? Let's see....

Box 1: A “care package” thanks to mnementh. Contains various mainly power supply bits. Includes a few small transformers that are perfect for the 5 volt Fluke 8000A project. Thanks pal!  :-+

Box 2: From Mouser. Parts to rebuild the 110V supply in the Tek 465.  :-/O

Box 3: Not mine. It's hers. Clothes from one of her favorite shops. As I mentioned before she has items delivered here rather than her place because of rampart package theft.

Can't wait to work on the 465 to see if it finally comes up but she's arriving this afternoon for the weekend. So it will have to wait until next week. It was a tough choice.  :scared: :-DD

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Glad I could help (empty out one of many drawers of junk at your place) !    ;)

Also... speaking of packages for "her"... at least you actually got something YOU wanted. Whenever I'm waiting for a package with "special goodies" in it, my wife gets something from Amazon, Monkey Ward, or Mary Kay instead... Last month FOUR DAYS IN A ROW that happened while I was waiting on a micro FPV camera from AKK Technology.  >:(  It's like the packages KNOW they're for HER, and kick my packages out of the sorting line or somesuch effing thing, I SWEAR.  :P

As for whether you made the "right choice"... here's my secret to a successful marriage of nearly 20 years; Whenever I encounter conflict, or even, in cases like this where I can foresee conflict in the future if I make a certain choice, I ask myself: "Would I rather be right, or would I rather be happy?"

You'd be amazed at how few times "right" is the right answer, and how EASY it becomes to choose "happy" and to really BE happy.  ;D


mnem
Of course, every once in a while a man's got to be RIGHT...  >:D and Happy be damned.  :-DD

ChrisLX200:

--- Quote from: Specmaster on May 04, 2018, 04:38:40 pm ---If anyone is interested this meter has just appeared on Ebay and it has a 4.5 / 5.5 digit button but it is also a 6.5 digit meter which is activated by pressing the ** button then the 5.5 button and its British.
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Not sure there's any point in counting digits if the device doesn't have the internal reference and stability to support them.

As an aside, I was mucking about with my Rigol DM3058, using some new 4-wire Kelvin clips to repeatedly measure a 5 Ohm power resistor over a 10 min period. It will happily chuck out 10 digits over USB like they meant something  :-DD

These are (some of) the data and small graph:


and this is a scatter plot of the data - all over the place!

bd139:

--- Quote from: Specmaster on May 04, 2018, 04:32:12 pm ---We used to have a perfectly good fleet of Harriers, Jaguars, Tornadoes and some nice new shiny Nimrods until the government of the day decided that we could afford a peace dividend and scrapped them all. Now only have a few serviceable aircraft and a brand new carrier with no aircraft to fly from it? On top of that we are now in Brexit talks so once thats done and dusted we won't be in a position defend our self.

Not a good position to be in with all the unrest in the world right now.

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We're fine. We have a bunch of shit in service which is top notch.  We have Eurofighter, F35's, quite a few GR4's, numerous drones, A400 carriers, by far the most advanced airborne and ground radar systems, trident, one hefty aircraft carrier (finally!), skynet satellite network and we're surrounded by water and we have air bases all around the world.

Main defence for us is trident. To quote my father on it, who I agree with: "we can fuck any asshole on the planet in 40 minutes."

There are serious blacks ops in the UK don't forget as well, plus electronic warfare is a massive thing now (we pretty much lead the world there, even putting the shits up the US).

Really, and this is on topic for TEA, the main problem we have is we're breeding hordes of dumbasses in this country which means it's difficult building an engineering culture which is required to support the defence industry. When I worked in the defence industry most of the people in it were retiring. There's a vacuum. What would be nice is to see lots of new companies like TTi popping up!

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