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Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
tggzzz:
One of the best satirical sites around at the moment is News Thump. Most of the articles are overtly political and so are (rightly) off-limits in this forum.
However, there is one that is just too close to the knuckle for the denizens of this thread: http://newsthump.com/2018/05/21/man-decides-to-keep-box-of-cables-hes-has-since-2002-for-another-year/
tggzzz:
--- Quote from: Berni on May 21, 2018, 11:25:47 am ---Or this being the TEA group you can go on your auction site of choice and look for any of those old analog combo scopes with memory. Extra points if it uses a charge coupled device as its its storage rather than digital bits.
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Those are the kind of thing that gave digitising scopes a bad name :) "Long buffers and peak detect? What are they?"
beanflying:
--- Quote from: Specmaster on May 21, 2018, 09:56:48 am ---Personally I quite grumpy old men, especially when they are nearly always right and nice with it, hell I'm one of them myself. :-DD
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I have a notable birthday coming up time to work on my grumpy :-DD
TEA related at last. DIY 1K, 10K, and 100k 0.1% Vishay Decade box to go with my commercial lower resistance boxes.
tggzzz:
--- Quote from: bd139 on May 21, 2018, 11:24:01 am ---
--- Quote from: tggzzz on May 21, 2018, 11:16:23 am ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on May 21, 2018, 09:42:09 am ---You can freeze an analogue scope. Turn the intensity up, stare at it for 10 seconds then shut your eyes :-DD
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You don't even need to do that! Use an analogue storage scope :) Oh, the "fun" we had as youngsters :(
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I've not used one in ernest apart from playing with an old Tek 7000 storage mainframe many years ago at university. I was told to leave it alone so I didn't bugger the storage tube up. Jim Williams used a lot of them in his literature however. Telequipment DM63's come up one ebay regularly for virtually nothing so I might grab one to play with. I know how they work and how to use them; just never had the opportunity to do so.
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My local hackspace has a DM63, the only dual-beam scope I've seen. It is quite nice, or would be if I bothered to replace the main DC filter cap to eliminate the 100Hz intensity modulation.
Analogue storage scopes always were a pain in the backside, and you only used them because there was no alternative.
Specmaster:
--- Quote from: bd139 on May 19, 2018, 01:31:08 pm ---
Glorious sunshine here. The only flying machine around here was eyeing up the things I dug up!
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Only the one Robin? We have 2 of these lovely birds and they are very tame as well, despite having 2 cats to scare them off. :-DD
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