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Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
factory:
--- Quote from: AVGresponding on July 11, 2022, 05:47:08 pm ---Here are some (hopefully) more sensible ebay picks to help take the taste away:
This one's not working, not sure what's wrong with it exactly... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/354159745871
Not cheap I know, but this is CDL, expect chunky price drops when they relist it.
This dusty little number had a stablemate that went for £1 (collection only), was an HP 66xx as new! (Yes I forgot to post that one in time, sorry) https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/334492263096
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Was watching that Tek last week, graffiti states PSU U/S (tants or something more serious?) and X amp U/S, the X amp board pictures on Tekwiki show lots of custom hybrids. :scared: Massive doorstop maybe, till you find another frame. :-//
The HP 66xx ended early of a best offer, must have gone for more than a pound. :blah:
Might have a go at the mA source if it doesn't go stupid high.
David
bd139:
--- Quote from: capt bullshot on July 11, 2022, 06:17:36 pm ---
--- Quote from: TERRA Operative on July 11, 2022, 12:22:55 am ---Well, I finally got one! The fabled true 50ohm 1% Tektronix '012-0482-00' coax cable for my SG503. ;D
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Want a 012-0057-01, too?
I have an special offer, since mine is true vintage and apparently made of pure tektronium, it's just 5 times the price tag of this one >:D >:D >:D:
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FFS they just bought a box of shit ones and picked the 1 out of 10 which did whatever magic with a VNA was required to pass it.
Specmaster:
--- Quote from: xrunner on July 11, 2022, 04:24:20 pm ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on July 11, 2022, 04:19:32 pm ---TBF I spent four days at a non aircon accommodation block (basically low grade motel) at Edwards AFB once when it was 40 oC and I didn't melt. I'm a lot less of a lard ass now so might survive still :-DD. Oh and Taco Bell every night :scared:
That was a depressing week. My only trip to the US to date :(
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Ok dumb question but I really don't know - do you all need AC at all over there at any time of the year?
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For most of the year the answer to your question is no, but at times such as now with the temperatures in the high 20s and low 30s, then the answer is yes and I think it is now only a matter of time before we see homes being fitted with some form of AC. It is almost if not impossible to buy a new car these days without it having AC fitted.
Specmaster:
--- Quote from: Cerebus on July 11, 2022, 04:57:25 pm ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on July 11, 2022, 04:40:33 pm ---
--- Quote from: xrunner on July 11, 2022, 04:24:20 pm ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on July 11, 2022, 04:19:32 pm ---TBF I spent four days at a non aircon accommodation block (basically low grade motel) at Edwards AFB once when it was 40 oC and I didn't melt. I'm a lot less of a lard ass now so might survive still :-DD. Oh and Taco Bell every night :scared:
That was a depressing week. My only trip to the US to date :(
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Ok dumb question but I really don't know - do you all need AC at all over there at any time of the year?
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Nope.
You get it in some offices and some public transport and that’s about it.
We shipped all the pussies to the other side of the pond :-DD
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I have it in the car, where it wasn't a choice, it was already there, and I have had one in the bedroom for three summers now.
I'm not fussed by daytime heat, but our hefty Victorian end of terrace just soaks up heat in the summer and doesn't cool down much at night. I'm already a "hot sleeper" and can get too hot in bed in the middle of winter. Once we started getting summers where the bedroom temperature would not fall significantly at night I started getting unpleasantly uncomfortable. So I got a portable 4kW air conditioner and run it for a few hours before bedtime then turn it off.
Here's the Kitchen temperature for the past day as an indication of what the bedroom would be like without cooling:
(Yes, I do have a bunch of Zigbee thermometers feeding into an MQTT instance. :))
I use the car air con because it's there but could happily live without it. The best thing about it is that you can turn it on remotely and so don't have to slap your bare beshorted legs onto a red hot car seat - that alone is worth the price of admission.
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Hmm, yes well the temperature right now in my bedroom is 32oC and that is with the curtains drawn to keep the sun out (and my bedroom faces due north so does not direct sun) and with the bedroom door closed to keep warm air from the front of the house (south facing) entering, so my house would certainly benefit from AC. That said however, it would be another matter of paying the running costs.
mnementh:
--- Quote from: Cerebus on July 11, 2022, 04:41:07 pm ---
--- Quote from: mnementh on July 11, 2022, 03:27:09 pm ---
--- Quote from: Cerebus on July 11, 2022, 02:44:08 pm ---On a more serious note. As someone who did quite a lot of messing about in boats in his youth, to me that instinctively looks very top heavy. My guess is if you took that out on anything choppier than a millpond, or leant overboard too far, that thing would be upside down in the blink of an eye. :scared:
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Yeah, that's why the wheels flip out a la James Bond's TR7 Lotus British rustbox.
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(1) That's even worse, move more weight UP, and remove what little keel like effect the wheels would have provided.
(2) That was NOT a TR7.
THIS is a TR7:
You've forced me, to force you, to use up your stock of eye-bleach.
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You're absolutely right; I beg your pardon. Now corrected.
mnem
>:D
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