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Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
Cubdriver:
--- Quote from: med6753 on July 13, 2022, 07:05:59 pm ---I spy a blue Philips crapacitor in both versions. :o
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'tis actually a late 1975 vintage Sprague (note no waist pinch, which seesm to be common on the Philips ones IIRC):
I haven't tested it yet.
-Pat
Edit to add - guess I should have read a few posts further along before replying. :-DD
Specmaster:
--- Quote from: mnementh on July 13, 2022, 07:37:54 pm ---
--- Quote from: Specmaster on July 13, 2022, 05:01:26 pm ---
--- Quote from: Cerebus on July 13, 2022, 01:09:54 pm ---
--- Quote from: Specmaster on July 13, 2022, 07:45:24 am ---Hmm, that's odd, because my car also has a turbo and I can honestly say that I have not noticed any lag in it cutting in at all.
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Turbodiesels are better in this regard than turbo petrol engines, partially because any diesel has a flatter broader torque curve so there's less of a low spot and it's less noticeable, and one also just doesn't expect the throttle response from a diesel that one does from a petrol engine. Plus you're used to a car with a 0-60 time of 10 seconds or longer (I'm not sure exactly which model you have), whereas I'm really talking about sport models more in 6 to 7 second bracket where these things are much more noticeable.
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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. That figure not such a long ago would have been cloud-cuckoo-land for such a large and heavy car, and would have been certainly the level expected of a sports car. It is a testimony to modern engineers that such times today are indeed possible, even without resorting to mnem's sticking a big V8 in the engine bay, or indeed Anders weight reduction techniques that Colin Chapman was so good at (along with chassis tweaks), and still being economical and low emissions. 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 and nowhere in the world is that more true than America. It is true that American cars are nowhere as large as they once used to be, but they are still pretty big when compared with European cars.
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I thought you once said you drove for a bus company back in the day? That's what I was ribbing you aboot. :-//
mnem
:popcorn:
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Ha ha so that's what you were on about then eh? Nah, I never drove for a bus company, I was an auto electrician at a bus company and part of my job was to take out buses and 12 metre coaches on road test at the end of the working day when the fitters had finished the routine servicing of them. Very few of them either had driving licences or had been approved and cleared for driving them by the companies driving school. I guess I was just a natural driver as I only spent a day in the driving school along with drivers training to become proper bus drivers. We were all taking turns to drive a double decker, and my stint came just after lunch at the depot in Braintree and I drove for 25 minutes back to the Chelmsford depot, a distance of just 12 miles.
The chief driving instructor walked into my bosses office and said that he had no idea why I had been sent on a driving course as I was already competent and that as far as he was concerned I needed no training. I mentioned in an earlier post that every Thursday we had to wash the garage floor and that every vehicle had to be moved to do that. I had been driving these buses around within the confines of the garage for months before going to driving school, so I guess I had learnt how to handle them doing that.
mnementh:
Ahhh.... okay. I thought your job entailed both working in the garage and part-time driving active routes when needed.
mnem
D'OH! :-[
Cubdriver:
I'm not sure where this thing lived, but it had white fuzz on the display connector insulator, and the pins had a uniform coating of non-conductive nastiness on them. Traces on the display look rather discolored, too, like it was in some sort of unpleasant atmosphere. The rest doesn't look too bad, though, so who knows?
I removed the white fuzz with a gentle brushing using an old toothbrush, then cleaned the exposed pins with a DeOxit-soaked piece of green Scotchbrite:
Then did a quickie test using a bench supply. DC readings are at least in the ballpark:
Now working on the enclosure - those stains are rather stubborn.
-Pat
Cubdriver:
--- Quote from: factory on July 13, 2022, 06:58:54 pm ---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
David
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Mine's a 1538A s/n prefix. Did they switch to a label from the stamped serial number on the later units, or is it possible that the enclosure bottom was replaced at some point? A replacement part could be one possible explanation for the lack of serial number...
-Pat
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