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Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread

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med6753:
We're into a 2nd day of a heat wave here with temperatures exceeding 90 degrees F and high humidity. And mains power is all over the place. First noticed it with the LED desk light quickly flashing. Monitoring mains right now and steady 125VAC then a quick drop to 122VAC and back up. And some dips too quick to see on the Fluke 87 LCD but the bargraph is going nuts. Either some load shedding going on or someone has a big arse A/C compressor that might be taking a dump. Seems to have settled down now.   

bitseeker:
It's rather toasty in my neck of the woods this weekend, too.

As for eBay, I didn't win anything. So, I had some fun hitting the "Report Listing" on a bunch of fraud items. Might've been the same hacked account that bd was talking about. I recognized some of the photos right away; probably used by the same crackpot breaking into accounts. Other listings are also pretty obvious with expensive equipment at initial bid prices under $10, free shipping, closing in 24 hrs and thousands of items in recently added inventory. Lots of red flags.

med6753:
In other useless news....heard on police scanner: A hapless driver just clobbered a black bear. That must have done some damage that won't buff out. Much more than hitting a deer.

A few weeks ago my neighbor photo'ed this 2 year ago in their yard. It completed ignored them standing on their deck but ran off when a car approached. That's a little disconcerting because I get home from work at about 4:45 AM and it's barely (pardon the pun) light out and I have to walk past our community dumpster. The last thing I want to run into is Smokey looking of breakfast.  :scared: :scared: :scared:

bd139:
Back on the somewhat rare subject of TEA, I dragged out a project I could suddenly be arsed with again. Back from page 453, the Heathkit IM-5238. The inlet side of this was a mess, a typical Heathkit style and the transformer had fallen to bits and the power supply was shot. I fixed the power supply here:

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/test-equipment-anonymous-(tea)-group-therapy-thread/msg1568431/#msg1568431

Now for the inlet. Did the metal work this morning nice and early just to piss off the neighbours who had a party last night and are probably totally hung over :-DD ... cut a new hole for the IEC socket which overlapped the original line voltage selector and used the old cable inlet for the fuse holder. This is 240v only now!

One of the top holes will be repurposed as the device's earth bond and the rest including the small gap on one corner of the IEC socket with filler epoxy.



Gubbins:



Now I'm completely stuck because I have run out of (a) filler epoxy (b) screw lock (c) M3 lock washers (d) earth tags (e) wire (f) countersunk m3 screws and (g) heatsink. And the usual source of such goodies in non industrial and wallet buggering quantities, bitsbox, is on holiday until 2nd of July  :--

med6753:
Nice work. What holiday is it over there? This Wednesday is our Holiday (7/4) which is the day we celebrate our independence from....ahem....you guys!  :-DD

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