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Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread

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Specmaster:
That Fluke 5440B has just relisted https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/JOHN-FLUKE-5440B-Direct-Volt-Calibrator-Voltage-IEEE-488-5205-5220-Digital-Out-/362319105716?_trksid=p2385738.m4383.l4275.c10

Haha I think everyone has noticed the 115V has been selected on the back and with them claiming it is working (what on 240V into 115v tappings  :o ) Of course, it could be correctly set up internally, noway of finding out without seeing inside.

I did think about lobbing a very low offer in last night, then I remembered, I don't have that much space free for it, but it could have turned out to be the catch of the century if a low offer was accepted and it did work  :-+

bd139:
Hooky as anything. Address of registered business is a private residence which means they’re running a crap shifting outfit from a storage unit somewhere. Also it’s not shown working.

Specmaster:
If its wired internally for 115V they can't show it working  :-DD I must admit, it does seem strange and thats why I never tried a low offer, and of course the limited space, although I have sold a scope and a few other bits but that is in preparation for the newer stuff coming in soon hopefully.

Nothing wrong selling from a private residence as a registered business, plenty of people run a business from home. I know of someone who sells  shit loads of packaging materials on Ebay, Amazon etc. I wanted some some plastic bags urgently and as they are just round the corner from me, said I'd collect them as I knew where they were. The guy asked me where that was and when I told him, he said that was his home and registered office and directed me to a farm just out of town, when I got there, it was an industrial estate that I never knew existed seeing as it was nearly 2 miles off the main road and down a private road. They occupied 3 massive warehouses on that site and were having a fourth built, the moral of the story is, you can't judge purely on the registered or declared address, they may have warehouses in the area that are geared up for mail orders only.

bitseeker:

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--- Quote from: bd139 on May 08, 2018, 07:45:12 pm ---Sooooo when do we get to see it unclad?  :-DD

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There you go, also opened the rectangle steel can to peek what is under it.  :P

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Cool. Added to the POI index. :-+

bitseeker:

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--- Quote from: rhb on May 10, 2018, 02:51:57 pm ---Oh, dear.  I fear deeply for my immortal soul.  I just bought a factory refurb MSOX3104T with all SW options from Keysight's eBay store.  The sales tax alone was enough to give me heart palpitations.   I'd have offered less if I'd realized it would be taxed.

So take this as a warning and do not venture on the paths of temptation lest you too should fall from grace.

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lordy lordy lordy!  if you were gonna' backslide down the wrong path that sure was the way to do it.

now i have a jones for a modern mso........but YOU are the new poster boy for TEA.

next time temptation raises it's ugly head i will think of you.....and observe a moment of silent contemplation in your memory.

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*Backs slowly away from those who've been irreversibly contaminated by the new shiny*


mnem
Don't forget the SquareTrade on that monstrosity...

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The *really* bad part is that it started out innocently enough.  @cellularmitosis gave me 3 basic-lm399 reference kits and suggested  getting a 3478A, which I did.   But then I found an 8560A  with a TG. Then @cellularmitosis offered me a 34401A and I bought an 8648C,  5386A,   438A with 8481D and 8482A calibrated. and then a second 34401A a few minutes after the MSOX3104T.    Fortunately I don't have room for a 3458A.  Or much of anything else.

So watch out for that small stuff.  Before you know it you'll be in real trouble.  I got rid of my adult supervision quite a while ago, so I have no one to protect me now.  And beware of @cellularmitosis bearing gifts and good deals.

Jason had sniped a 34401A that I had looked at and passed on for fear it had issues.  He offered it to me on an "if it doesn't work, I'll buy it back from you".  It arrived completely wonky.  A quick inspection revealed a 1 cm splatter of flux around an LF357 which had been replaced.  A quick cleaning with a soft brush and IPA (the kind you *don't* drink) and it reported my DMMCheck Plus calibrated to 1 ppm a few weeks earlier as 5.00000 VDC with similar results on the other readings.  So now I have a 2nd 34401A in transit.

Now I have to sell the Instek MSO-2204EA I bought last fall.  There's just no room for all this stuff in my 7' x 10' closet.

There is one purchase I made that was more gratifying than the 3104T.  A 5 MHz recurrent sweep Heathkit IO-18 I got at a yard sale for $75 about 40 years ago.

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Lots of nice model numbers I see there in that sea of TEA. Since you mentioned cellularmitosis, I don't remember now, are you also a member of the USA Cal Club? >:D Perhaps a 3458A will squeeze its way in there, somewhere. Vertically?

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