Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread

[Cerebus]

What I really want is something like this, but that is completely insane in price. (A SEK is about 1/9 USD today.)

Is that price a –ing joke or what? £1400 pounds ex VAT for a 1m x 700mm square set of filing draws? A 1m x 500 x 600 three drawer filing cabinet from Bisley* is £255 inc VAT - not an exact match, but roughly parallel; certainly close enough to know that someone's pricing is stratospheric.

*Bisley are the UK 'standard' in almost every office in the country. It's one of those names that everybody will know subconsciously, like Armitage-Shanks.

That sounds about right. They are high end industrial storage unit. Very similar to Lista. The build is orders of magnitude higher than a filing cabinet. You could literally use the drawers on a Lista as a set of steps. Don't ask how I know....
https://www.lista.com/en/

Oh, OK. So the sort of things you'd trust actors or drummers with. So props/stage equipment. 

[Martin Miranda]

i can't bill the client for reworking a pcb.
they gave me a cool shirt instead.  

[Saskia]

forgive me for I have sinned ...

https://www.napoleon.com/en/es/grills/products/gas-grills/rogue-series/rogue-425-rsb-rb425rsbpk-1-es

[Kosmic]

Still a bit too cold for the BBQ over here. Was -25DegC this morning

[Saskia]

brrrrrr, The last thing I remember about Canada was when they stole my Down Jacket out of the car parked in front of the Hilton Garden Inn in Burlington. I was not happy.

[Cerebus]

Still a bit too cold for the BBQ over here. Was -25DegC this morning

I don't know, I reckon you lot are getting soft. I have Croatian and Indian neighbours who fire up the BBQ all year around.

[mansaxel]

They are high end industrial storage unit.

Yeah, that's about it. They're suited to filling with reamers and threading tools, or to the brim with M6 nuts.

[Vince]

forgive me for I have sinned ...

https://www.napoleon.com/en/es/grills/products/gas-grills/rogue-series/rogue-425-rsb-rb425rsbpk-1-es

A sealed enclosure at the top that can heat stuff... has to be for a big ultra stable fancy OCXO of the latest generation.
The cabinet under it is most likely to store some TE, quite practical, good buy ! 

[Vince]

Who says workshop equipment has no place in the kitchen?



Not me!

" Campingaz " ?! Can't believe it, is that something you brought home when coming back from a trip to France, or does that mean these things are so state of the art that no local / UK manufacturer can make some of their own ?! 

Not complaining... helps the French economy ! 

[Cerebus]

" Campingaz " ?! Can't believe it, is that something you brought home when coming back from a trip to France, or does that mean these things are so state of the art that no local / UK manufacturer can make some of their own ?! 

Not complaining... helps the French economy ! 

Just the cheapest screw-on can of butane/propane mix that the local trade outlet (toolstation.com) had. I'd have bought it even if it was labelled in Cyrillic, gas is, well, just gas. Now, if I'd realized that it was French... 

Seriously, if it was at Toolstation that probably means that it's the cheapest that they can get wholesale. They don't scrape the bottom of the barrel, but if someone was to say that they took the layer immediately above that I wouldn't demure at that statement.

[Ice-Tea]

" Campingaz " ?! Can't believe it, is that something you brought home when coming back from a trip to France, or does that mean these things are so state of the art that no local / UK manufacturer can make some of their own ?! 

Not complaining... helps the French economy ! 

Pretty common, I think. At least in Belgium and the Netherlands it's a household name.

[Kosmic]

Still a bit too cold for the BBQ over here. Was -25DegC this morning

I don't know, I reckon you lot are getting soft. I have Croatian and Indian neighbours who fire up the BBQ all year around.

Well the problem is the BBQ not me. Its hard to keep a descent internal temperature.

[Neper]

Campingaz is at least as ubiquitous in Europe as Kärcher is in France... 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/11/german-steam-cleaner-maker-asks-french-politicians-not-to-sully-its-brand

[mnementh]

Who says workshop equipment has no place in the kitchen?   

Not me!

Hey now! Yer gonna put me out of a job!!!

mnem

[mnementh]

Still a bit too cold for the BBQ over here. Was -25DegC this morning

I don't know, I reckon you lot are getting soft. I have Croatian and Indian neighbours who fire up the BBQ all year around.

*raises a paw*

mnem
missing my grill somethin' fierce right now...

[Ice-Tea]

Mrrppfff... 5100B calibrator. Mostly fine, except for lower resistance ranges and pretty much all current ranges.

I'd like something that just works from time to time.

[mnementh]

https://www.ebay-kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/rollcontainer-schwarz/1991050214-93-8453

mnem
* toddles off to disrupt Discord*

[Robert763]

Spoke too soon on the Amprobe 2020 paower analyser. A bit more testing with various single phase connections in 3 phase 4 Wire mode ( I don't have a 3 phase supply) showed up some Voltage errors. Blue channel is wrong for starters.
 
 Fortunatly the PCB layout is fairly logical. The inputs are a resistive dividers  to a MUX then op-amp buffers. A bit of signal tracing with the trusty Fluke indicates a faulty MUX IC. Tha one on the bottom left. It's a 74HC4052 which I don't have in stock. I've a CD4052 in DIL but it's not worth hacking it in, not with mains floating around.
So off to order a 74HCT4052M. Or 3. Plus a couple of MAX 492 and 494. Even if I had to replace all the MUX and buffer IC's it would be worth while.
Interestingly the PCBs are marked HT instruments not Amprobe.

[Specmaster]

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" Campingaz " ?! Can't believe it, is that something you brought home when coming back from a trip to France, or does that mean these things are so state of the art that no local / UK manufacturer can make some of their own ?! 

Not complaining... helps the French economy ! 

I used to buy that when I spent a couple of years lorry driving, my dog and I used to sleep in the cab and had a Campinggaz fire, Campinggaz light and a Campinggaz cooker to give us light, heat and hot food, great fun it was too. To answer your question, Campinggaz was everywhere in the UK and think I'd be correct in saying that it still is.

[AVGresponding]

Missing Discord again Spec?   

[Specmaster]

Missing Discord again Spec?   

Yep, SWMBO has got me decorating, bedroom, bathroom, hall, landing and stairs as well as other little jobs and a friend wants me to rewire his vintage tractor before long, its alright for you single men, you can do what you want when you want 

[Specmaster]

Geez, what the bleeding hell is going on over in America, LA in particular? I've just seen this BBC TV report of goods trains being robbed, even while they are moving. The thieves they say are looking high value items and just throwing other stuff of the trains.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-60006306

[AVGresponding]

Geez, what the bleeding hell is going on over in America, LA in particular? I've just seen this BBC TV report of goods trains being robbed, even while they are moving. The thieves they say are looking high value items and just throwing other stuff of the trains.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-60006306

Are you sure it was the news, and not Fast & Furious 5?   

[tggzzz]

Still a bit too cold for the BBQ over here. Was -25DegC this morning

I don't know, I reckon you lot are getting soft. I have Croatian and Indian neighbours who fire up the BBQ all year around.

In Kashmir they wear the barbecue under their clothes. Alps known as a kangri https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanger

[Brumby]

forgive me for I have sinned ...

https://www.napoleon.com/en/es/grills/products/gas-grills/rogue-series/rogue-425-rsb-rb425rsbpk-1-es

No absolution necessary that I can see.  In Oz, that is basic cooking equipment.  If you didn't have something like that you would be considered underprivileged.

Acceptable alternatives include a steel plate propped up on bricks with wood chucked underneath - though those tend to be lower to the ground and can't be used on fire ban days.