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| Cubdriver:
--- Quote from: Cerebus on July 14, 2022, 04:08:44 pm --- --- Quote from: Cubdriver on July 14, 2022, 01:37:33 am ---Brilliant!! That gives me a great idea! ;D Behold!!! >:D >:D >:D <runs for cover> -Pat --- End quote --- Hey Pat, you should check if you still have the handwritten receipt for that lampholder and lamp and check the signature on on. If the signature reads Thomas Alva Edison you'd make a mint from it at auction. :-DD --- End quote --- LOL - it's not quite THAT old. Original to the house from when it was built in about 1962, and was one of only about a dozen electrical parts that are still original to the place since I did my rewire around ten years ago. And the lamp is one of those new 'filament' style LED ones - saw it at Home Depot a few years ago and bought it on a whim; stumbled on it a week or so ago so it was fresh in my mind when mnem's steampunk comment gave be the idea to play with the concept pioneered by one of our favorite ebayers. >:D (I was later tempted to put a voltage of like 12.37 into it to make it look like a clock, but couldn't think of a way to make the colon and was too lazy to do it in Photoshop.) -Pat |
| factory:
You wouldn't be able to display 12.37, it ranges up at 10.98 according to the book, below 10.00 it blanks the leading zero, so the large decimal point could make a time colon for between 10.00 & 10.59. P.S. What's with all that Caution/Warning crap, printed on that LED lightbulb. David |
| ch_scr:
An HP438A just popped up locally for 85€: decent condition, but broken power reference and he won't sell the sensor. I think I'll pass... |
| Specmaster:
--- Quote from: Cerebus on July 14, 2022, 05:57:18 pm --- --- Quote from: Robert763 on July 14, 2022, 05:20:55 pm ---There is 3 phase in the street but not in the house. If I could get an extension lead from two neigbours I'd be set though ::) EV's and non-gas heating is driving three phase supplies for some new build housing though. --- End quote --- You might need quite long extensions, from what I can make out (from observing single phase power failures) the phases down my street change about every six houses. --- End quote --- Yes, I think that is correct, or at least it was 55 years ago when I rewired my parent's house to accommodate the latest craze, storage heaters. When the time came for them to switch on, the neighbours complained that old CRT based TV's picture used shrink in size a bit. So we had to reduce the loading by deciding which heaters were not critical until the supply authority could get 3 phase supply into the house. In those days the supply was underground to the first house on each phase and then was clipped to the rear facade of the houses and jumped between the semi-detached houses as suspended cables. This meant that they had to bring the other 2 phases from a reasonable distance up the road, clipping it along with the other cables. To the best of my knowledge, their house remained the only one to have 3 phase supply and that supply remained in place until they passed away, and the house was sold a few years ago. |
| Specmaster:
--- Quote from: med6753 on July 14, 2022, 06:10:20 pm --- --- Quote from: factory on July 14, 2022, 05:41:34 pm --- --- Quote from: Robert763 on July 14, 2022, 11:07:21 am ---TEA Anyone in UK @BD139 want a thermal TRMS meter? www.ebay.co.uk/itm/403774543294 --- End quote --- --- Quote from: bd139 on July 14, 2022, 11:11:20 am ---Already seen it. At that price, no :-DD I am after a decent 3400A but the other seller who had one didn’t want to shift it at the price I wanted to pay. I can afford to wait --- End quote --- Much prefer this one, but the seller didn't respond last year, when I enquired about shipping a counter, so no point asking again. https://www.ebay.de/itm/225070026339 I do have a 3403A bought from the USA, condition is not quite as nice, not helped by crap packing. Not having much luck ATM, trying to persuade US sellers to add international shipping either. :-// One such example, seller name "globalmachinesales" they are not interested in "global" as only US shipping is advertised and definitely not interested in "sales" as they can't be bothered answering either of the two messages I sent. :-DD David --- End quote --- If you keep running into these asshole sellers who won't deal internationally and it's something you really want I'd be willing to help out on a one by one basis. I've pretty much figured out the customs quagmire and dealing with USPS and their requirements. But just note that it can get expensive. --- End quote --- Can't quite figure out their reluctance on international. If they use the GSP programme, all the customs declarations etc they handle for you, from a sellers point of view, it's a no-brainer as it opens up a huge potential customer base to them at zero cost. :palm: |
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