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Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
Specmaster:
--- Quote from: Cerebus on July 06, 2022, 04:51:23 pm ---
--- Quote from: Specmaster on July 06, 2022, 04:11:12 pm ---Agreed with the cameras they are quite good, trouble with them is however that there are many that are tucked away in locations where you cannot see them until the last minute, and they are usually the ones located just where the limit changes from say 40 to 30 and are designed to catch people in the process of actually slowing to new limit, the sign of which is also pretty well hidden until the last minute.
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Well, if one isn't speeding, who cares where the cameras are? And if one isn't observant enough to spot a speed limit sign or a bright yellow speed camera in a reasonably predictable place on the road in enough time to react to it safely then one certainly isn't observant enough to be in adequate control of a vehicle that is being driven over the speed limit. A traffic sergeant I used to know said he never ticketed people for mere speed, but for failing to spot that a police car was behind them when they were speeding or sitting at the side of the road while PC Plod was standing next to it in high-vis with a RADAR gun in his hand.
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Thats why I said, about many are tucked away where it is hard to spot them until its too late, many are just after a speed limit change and don't give motorists sufficient time to slow down without hard braking, risking being rammed from the rear. There is a camera on the M11 just before it meets the North Circular where the speed drops from 70 to 50, the camera is just 400 odd metres from the speed limit sign. That sign is easy to miss, especially if you are behind or in the process of overtaking a lorry etc. In fact that camera did hold the record for the most fines issued and used to be, I recall, being attacked on many occasions by either placing tyres over it and setting them on fire and other times being rammed so that the camera was facing the ground and so they had to put a crash barrier there to protect it.
I now see that they have since erected a solitary speed limit repeater sign just prior to the camera, and this camera is still also missable if there is a lorry between it and you. I knew about this camera and also the speed limit change as I was a regular on that road, but strangers could be so easily caught out by it.
For the avoidance of doubt, I have never been caught speeding by either a camera or a policeman in 56 years of driving but seeing as my livelihood depended on my ability to be able to drive, I saw the need to invest in equipment to help me protect my driving licence, such as a GPS based camera warning system and also dashcams.
PA0PBZ:
--- Quote from: xrunner on July 06, 2022, 05:05:04 pm ---Wow! That is CLEAN! :wtf:
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Must have been quite a long call... (been there, done that)
factory:
And a not so clean HP DMM on ePay, nice! :-DD
https://www.ebay.com/itm/225062710116
David
Specmaster:
--- Quote from: Vince on July 06, 2022, 05:22:59 pm ---<snip>
Well no, sorry to disappoint ! :-DD
You must have misunderstood me.... it is just as unserviceable as the older TV I worked on. In both cases you have to crack the screen apart, peal every layer of the "sandwich", and disconnect and remove off course the LCD panel itself... which is the dangerous / tricky part.
Also in both cases the strips are held with freaking double sided sticky tape which is a nightmare.
This TV, is even worse because the strip is stuck against its heat sink, there is very limited access to get tools, unlike the older TV with the strips laying flat on the chassis, so you had ample access from all sides to pry the strips off of the chassis.
So no, sorry Dragon... still a bunch of crap I am afraid ! :(
I will call it serviceable when you can replace the strips without having ti remove / disturb the LCD panel. That is, put the strips OUTside the frame, not inside..... ::)
... and when the strips are also fixed with screw or any method designed to be easy to get off... so no glue or tape thanks...
Of course this will never happen... at least not on consumer stuff... maybe professional fancy expensive screens are built better, I don't know...
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I doubt there is a set anywhere that is designed to be serviceable, they are all designed to be easy to assemble by robots and hence the trouble in getting inside it in the first place. A robot just drops the back cover onto the chassis and simply presses it home and the grips you mentioned are designed to make that process easy.
Specmaster:
--- Quote from: factory on July 06, 2022, 06:26:20 pm ---And a not so clean HP DMM on ePay, nice! :-DD
https://www.ebay.com/itm/225062710116
David
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Oh yuck, I hope that cleans up OK, it would never grace my bench that's for sure :-DD
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