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Cerebus:

--- Quote from: Specmaster on July 13, 2022, 05:01:26 pm ---
0 to 60 of 10 seconds, where did you get that from, I can assure you that the quoted figure for my car is 8.6 seconds to 62mph.

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Like I said, I didn't know which model you have, and 10 is the middle of the range for the "Superb".

So, 8.6? The last time I had a car that slow was the 1980s.  >:D


--- Quote from: Specmaster on July 13, 2022, 05:01:26 pm ---Likewise I'm not sure that a car that measures just 4.8 metres long can be called a land yacht, there are plenty of cars longer ...

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And 'twas not me that described it as a land yacht, but 4.8 metres sounds pretty much at the upper end of car lengths, 95%ile or thereabout. In Euro-NCAP terms it would be E-segment "executive cars" the next size up from D-segment which is labelled as "large family cars". The British Parking Association recommends 4.8 metres for the length of a parking space (2.4 wide) and that includes an allowance for access to the boot, space between vehicles and so on, so your car is too big for a "standard" parking space. So Land Yacht? Probably not. Land Gin Palace? Maybe.

factory:

--- Quote from: bd139 on July 13, 2022, 01:18:33 pm ---
--- Quote from: dl6lr on July 13, 2022, 01:15:27 pm ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on July 13, 2022, 12:59:18 pm ---The car I just mentioned is French  :-DD (Citroen)

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Got a Citroen as a replacement car after an accident in winter 2010. It had a full metal gear shift knob and it felt it was bound to permafrost through a heat pipe...

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That’s a feature. The gear stick goes into an ice cube tray full of large nuts.

Citroen can’t do gear boxes I will admit  :-DD

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Their gear change rods/mechanism are a load of shite too, aftermarket parts don't fit properly either.   :--

The 0 to 60mph  :bullshit: is irrelevant for me, the only road on my daily commute with a 60 limit is a narrow twisty lane, it's unsafe to go above 40, unless you want to crash into cycles, people or oncoming traffic (dickheads driving in the middle of the road through blind bends), the big main road got reduced to 50, every other road is 30 or 40.
Also don't have enough gears in the petrol Citroen van to make 60 economical, think it's a 1.4L version.

Interesting Wales have decided to reduce residential areas to 20, from sometime next year and Scotland are interested in doing the same.

Anyway that's enough autoshite  :blah: from me for a month, or three.

David

factory:

--- Quote from: Cubdriver on July 13, 2022, 03:20:11 pm ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on July 13, 2022, 02:15:53 pm ---
--- Quote from: xrunner on July 13, 2022, 02:11:15 pm ---Regarding the hp 3476A DMM, if you're interested in what hp was thinking to make such a meter, I attached an explanation of what they were thinking about. It came from the Hewlett-Packard Journal, Feb 1977, p.21

(zipped pdf too large to attach)

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Just googled the 970A. That's one ugly fucker  :-D



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That one was clever in that it had an inverting display, so you could use it pointing away from you, or pointing down like a probe, and it would still be readable (the slide switch just below the display in the image flipped it).  I seem to recall reading somewhere (the HPAK list maybe?) that the biggest problem with them was their adhesive tendencies - they apparently used to stick to people's fingers and disappear from workplaces.

-Pat

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The plastic used seems to age really badly on those too, not sure I can open the battery compartment on mine without breaking it.

David

bd139:
Probably got Philips to supply the plastics then  :-DD

Sorry meant to contact you. I’m slowly working on extracting those bits for you. Should finish by the weekend if nothing else explodes in my face  :palm:

factory:

--- Quote from: Cubdriver on July 13, 2022, 03:37:36 pm ---
--- Quote from: xrunner on July 13, 2022, 02:11:15 pm ---Regarding the hp 3476A DMM, if you're interested in what hp was thinking to make such a meter, I attached an explanation of what they were thinking about. It came from the Hewlett-Packard Journal, Feb 1977, p.21

(zipped pdf too large to attach)

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Here's a pic of the custom IC:


And an overall one of the entire board:


It is affixed solder side up to the top part of the clamshell enclosure.

-Pat

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Both of mine seem to be a later revision, one is so late that the serial number sticker is missing, bloody cheapskates for not stamping them on both.  |O





Some more pictures are attached below, all taken a few years ago.


--- Quote from: bd139 on July 13, 2022, 06:43:45 pm ---Probably got Philips to supply the plastics then  :-DD

Sorry meant to contact you. I’m slowly working on extracting those bits for you. Should finish by the weekend if nothing else explodes in my face  :palm:

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That OK, there's no immediate rush for them, not had much time to play with TEA either, have been quite tried with work & the heat the last week or so.

David

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