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Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
Specmaster:
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--- Quote from: bd139 on May 24, 2018, 10:14:21 pm ---In lieu of bring it up slowly on the scariac, I decided that I couldn't be arsed to drag it out so I donned suitable PPE (ear protectors and goggles) and fired it up. No explosions!
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As these have a linear PSU the good ol' dim bulb tester works fine on them with 100+W bulbs.
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I really should build one of them. To be honest I’m not sure if you can get incandescent bulbs here. I’m all LED and haven’t bought one for about a decade as EU have rightfully banned them. Not sure that helped as I just leave my LED ones on all the time instead of worrying about the electricity bill :-DD
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Yes you can get them on Ebay or at least, you could a couple of months ago because I got mine there. Or you pm me and I could send you a couple of mine?
From mobile device so predictive text might have struck again [emoji83]
Specmaster:
That's neat, very similar to mine and I used a old pc psu case too.
--- Quote from: bd139 on May 25, 2018, 08:09:03 am ---That’s quite a nice bit of reuse that :-+
Added to project list.
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From mobile device so predictive text might have struck again [emoji83]
bd139:
You can indeed get them from eBay. Will order a couple later (I will blow one up) :)
tautech:
--- Quote from: bd139 on May 25, 2018, 09:01:11 am ---You can indeed get them from eBay. Will order a couple later (I will blow one up) :)
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I've never popped a incandescent bulb in the bulb tester......think about it, how could you ?
I do keep a few wattages 60, 100 and 150 and swap them around depending on what I'm working on.
There's no reason why you can't use 40 or 60W on many modern devices as they pull much less from the mains anyway. On older stuff you will need 100W or higher. IIRC a D83 wouldn't get going with a 100W bulb.
It's just some SMPS that don't like dim bulb supply like you wised me up on for that Philips CRO.
BravoV:
--- Quote from: Berni on May 25, 2018, 08:33:49 am ---
--- Quote from: BravoV on May 25, 2018, 06:54:58 am ---Any comments or insights for HP 54701A probe ? Especially for those we've experienced using it. TIA
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I have the new version of that probe that works with the Infiniium smart probe interface. I love these probes. They are great for any high speed work with there very low parasitic capacitance. Just keep it away from things with 24V power rails and such in them as the input is supposedly quite fragile
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Thanks for the noticing about it's sensitive input, btw, I'm not aware there is new vs old version, whats the different ?
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