Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread

[Berni]

Then wait til you look at the Rigol DP832



Still its a very nice PSU and is not all that expensive new.

[Specmaster]

Then wait til you look at the Rigol DP832



Still its a very nice PSU and is not all that expensive new.

Are those ugly bumpers there to protect it if should get dropped or are they meant to assure that there is adequate air flow around it in a stack?

EDIT.
Now that I have seen this on a monitor instead of a phone screen, I'm even more convinced that they serve both function, there are designed to interlock with other units both vertically and also horizontally so there is always airflow around the units. Good idea but I still don't like them.

[Zucca]

I can't stand the middle negative 30V connected to the negative 5V. I know if I buy the DP832, one day I will fry something because of that. 

[tggzzz]

iirc nmem is a former resident of PA.

if it were me.........heading out to a neutral area would be the plan.

I was going to post about my parent's response back in the 50s, but then I realised it was too close to raising the spectre of a gun debate, shudder.

(Yup, that's a hint!)

[tautech]

I can't stand the middle negative 30V connected to the negative 5V. I know if I buy the DP832, one day I will fry something because of that. 

Yeah that doesn't seem right....all 3 channels should be isolated. 

[tggzzz]

I know that since we removed the death penalty over this side of the pond, the murder rate has climbed rapidly  and what has helped that is there seems to be a good odds of getting away with crime with so few being caught and punished.

An interesting statistic that nobody guesses (doubly so leftpondians). I didn't believe it when I first read it in an interesting (albeit flawed) book "No More Sex War". I even went to the central library (remember those?) to look it up, and it was right.

What's the age range during which you are most likely to be be a homicide victim in the UK?

Most people guess 16-24yo, and that seems perfectly reasonable. But it is wrong.

It is 0-12 months- and by a factor of three over the 16-24yo range!

[tautech]

I know that since we removed the death penalty over this side of the pond, the murder rate has climbed rapidly  and what has helped that is there seems to be a good odds of getting away with crime with so few being caught and punished.

An interesting statistic that nobody guesses (doubly so leftpondians). I didn't believe it when I first read it in an interesting (albeit flawed) book "No More Sex War". I even went to the central library (remember those?) to look it up, and it was right.

What's the age range during which you are most likely to be be a homicide victim in the UK?

Most people guess 16-24yo, and that seems perfectly reasonable. But it is wrong.

It is 0-12 months- and by a factor of three over the 16-24yo range!

That's past sick and truly sad.
Bet the highest % doing this are in the 16-24 group.
 

[Berni]

Then wait til you look at the Rigol DP832

IMG

Still its a very nice PSU and is not all that expensive new.

Are those ugly bumpers there to protect it if should get dropped or are they meant to assure that there is adequate air flow around it in a stack?

EDIT.
Now that I have seen this on a monitor instead of a phone screen, I'm even more convinced that they serve both function, there are designed to interlock with other units both vertically and also horizontally so there is always airflow around the units. Good idea but I still don't like them.

Yeah they are designed to interlock for stacking and keeping the airflow mesh on the sides clear might be another reason for it. But these PSUs are the only ones that use this corner bumper design so they will only stack nicely with itself. Stacking anything else on top will make it a wonky leaning stack. unless whatever you are stacking has a deeper case than this already deep PSU and is around half rack width.

[tggzzz]

I know that since we removed the death penalty over this side of the pond, the murder rate has climbed rapidly  and what has helped that is there seems to be a good odds of getting away with crime with so few being caught and punished.

An interesting statistic that nobody guesses (doubly so leftpondians). I didn't believe it when I first read it in an interesting (albeit flawed) book "No More Sex War". I even went to the central library (remember those?) to look it up, and it was right.

What's the age range during which you are most likely to be be a homicide victim in the UK?

Most people guess 16-24yo, and that seems perfectly reasonable. But it is wrong.

It is 0-12 months- and by a factor of three over the 16-24yo range!

That's past sick and truly sad.
Bet the highest % doing this are in the 16-24 group.
 

It is sad but not always sick; it can be entirely natural. 55% of the perps are the mothers, and for good reasons it is classified as infanticide, not murder.

The good side is the implication and reality that the homicide rate of 18-24yo is low - the last time I looked it is about 12.5% of that in the USA (i.e. 8* worse in the USA).

[Specmaster]

It is sad but not always sick; it can be entirely natural. 55% of the perps are the mothers, and for good reasons it is classified as infanticide, not murder.

The good side is the implication and reality that the homicide rate of 18-24yo is low - the last time I looked it is about 12.5% of that in the USA (i.e. 8* worse in the USA).

Makes you wonder if they called it infanticide instead of murder in order to massage the official murder figures by removing the cases of infanticide out of the murder figures to make the decision to remove capital punishment appear better than it really is?

[tggzzz]

It is sad but not always sick; it can be entirely natural. 55% of the perps are the mothers, and for good reasons it is classified as infanticide, not murder.

The good side is the implication and reality that the homicide rate of 18-24yo is low - the last time I looked it is about 12.5% of that in the USA (i.e. 8* worse in the USA).

Makes you wonder if they called it infanticide instead of murder in order to massage the official murder figures by removing the cases of infanticide out of the murder figures to make the decision to remove capital punishment appear better than it really is?

No; absolutely not. In the UK infanticide is an age-old distinction. FFI, have a look at the wackypedia article.

I will refrain quoting from that - and from further comment - to avoid this derailing into a capital punishment slugfest.

[Specmaster]

  sounds like a good idea does that, lets get back on topic.

[bd139]

The clear out has begun. Listing a loooooad of things over the next couple of weeks.

[Specmaster]

The clear out has begun. Listing a loooooad of things over the next couple of weeks.

Same here too, still acquiring new items to compliment the items that I'm retaining, upgrading.

[Berni]

Given that you are from Europe i might be interested what you are listing.

I'm having a nice full watch list instead. I already missed a bragin that i wanted.

[ebclr]

I will pay 1140 USD, does anybody know a better deal ?

[DC1MC]

The clear out has begun. Listing a loooooad of things over the next couple of weeks.

Put them here as well, one mans obsolete surplus is another new multimeter .

 Cheers,
 DC1MC

[bd139]

Given that you are from Europe i might be interested what you are listing.

I'm having a nice full watch list instead. I already missed a bragin that i wanted.

I will write a list in the for sale forum later.

Currently out bowling

[Zucca]

TEA addicted should give priority to other TEA drug brothers

 

PS: I am hammering F5 in der  Buy/sell section... 

[bd139]

That’s fair

[Ero-Shan]

After a thunderstorm on Wednesday night, yesterday started off with (relatively) cool temperatures and an overcast sky. It seemed perfect for placing my GPS antenna and routing the cable. However, as soon as I commenced my undertaking, the sky cleared and temperatures soared. 
But I persevered, and after 7 hours of hard work and profuse sweating, the antenna has found a sheltered place, with the cable reaching my lab. The cable is only tentatively fixed yet, as I don't have clamps of the right size. Anyway, after half an hour, the True Position board claims to 'see' 8 satellites and reports  'locked'.

Now I will have to change one of the controller boards and write some software for it. (These boards were beta PCBs of our industrial controller. Picture them as microcontroller evaluation boards. I use them instead of an Arduino.)

[Specmaster]

Looks good, I just imagine the sweating you was suffering if you're like me, it l;eaves you feeling like a puddle of water and knackered. 

[Zucca]

Directly under the moon!

[Cerebus]

New Rigol 7000 Series Scopes


TEquipment.com left this in my inbox today... Bastards. 

When I read this the bottom of my screen was just where this comment is in relation to the above. I thought to my self "Ooh, shiny" and then scrolled down to:

mnem
ooooh.... shiny...

I would say "great minds think alike", but I know myself and so, with no slight intended, I must conclude "Fools seldom differ".

[Brumby]

Directly under the moon!

I think that is not the moon - but a reflection of the antenna.


That framework has some clear sheeting over the top of it, yes?