Author Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread  (Read 14549534 times)

ProtonFox, SashPlane, Gertjan, Wolfgang and 18 Guests are viewing this topic.

Offline tautech

  • Super Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 28136
  • Country: nz
  • Taupaki Technologies Ltd. Siglent Distributor NZ.
    • Taupaki Technologies Ltd.
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #31200 on: May 12, 2019, 11:19:34 pm »
Me: Hi Mom, did you get my flowers?

Mom: No, I didn't.

Me: They were supposed to be delivered Thursday.

Mom: Sorry, no flowers.

After I get off the phone with her I'm loaded for bear to call the flower place and bitch them out and get a refund. So I pull up my order. Look at it. Uh-oh. I screwed up. I put down May 16th delivery rather than May 9th delivery. DO'H  |O |O |O :palm:

I think I'll crawl back into my hole.  :-DD
In your defense, didn't you have a not so easily overlooked distraction visiting ?  ;)

Nope, no distractions so no defense other then a plain old screw-up.  :-//
I'll leave you to dig yourself out of that hole then.  :-DD
Avid Rabid Hobbyist
Siglent Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@SiglentVideo/videos
 

Offline med6753

  • Super Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 11313
  • Country: us
  • Tek nut
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #31201 on: May 12, 2019, 11:26:16 pm »
Me: Hi Mom, did you get my flowers?

Mom: No, I didn't.

Me: They were supposed to be delivered Thursday.

Mom: Sorry, no flowers.

After I get off the phone with her I'm loaded for bear to call the flower place and bitch them out and get a refund. So I pull up my order. Look at it. Uh-oh. I screwed up. I put down May 16th delivery rather than May 9th delivery. DO'H  |O |O |O :palm:

I think I'll crawl back into my hole.  :-DD
In your defense, didn't you have a not so easily overlooked distraction visiting ?  ;)

Nope, no distractions so no defense other then a plain old screw-up.  :-//
I'll leave you to dig yourself out of that hole then.  :-DD

You know how Mothers are. Always forgiving. She said that when the flowers from my other brother die she'll have mine to appreciate. Can't beat that logic....and it gets me out of the doghouse.  :-DD
An old gray beard with an attitude.
 

Offline tautech

  • Super Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 28136
  • Country: nz
  • Taupaki Technologies Ltd. Siglent Distributor NZ.
    • Taupaki Technologies Ltd.
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #31202 on: May 12, 2019, 11:53:03 pm »
Me: Hi Mom, did you get my flowers?

Mom: No, I didn't.

Me: They were supposed to be delivered Thursday.

Mom: Sorry, no flowers.

After I get off the phone with her I'm loaded for bear to call the flower place and bitch them out and get a refund. So I pull up my order. Look at it. Uh-oh. I screwed up. I put down May 16th delivery rather than May 9th delivery. DO'H  |O |O |O :palm:

I think I'll crawl back into my hole.  :-DD
In your defense, didn't you have a not so easily overlooked distraction visiting ?  ;)

Nope, no distractions so no defense other then a plain old screw-up.  :-//
I'll leave you to dig yourself out of that hole then.  :-DD

You know how Mothers are. Always forgiving. She said that when the flowers from my other brother die she'll have mine to appreciate. Can't beat that logic....and it gets me out of the doghouse.  :-DD
:)
Wise old thing she is, my gran was like that and could always see the good in things.
My mom not so much.........we don't speak.
Avid Rabid Hobbyist
Siglent Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@SiglentVideo/videos
 

Offline bitseekerTopic starter

  • Super Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 9057
  • Country: us
  • Lots of engineer-tweakable parts inside!
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #31203 on: May 13, 2019, 12:23:40 am »
Thanks for confirming my sanity. It's an odd architecture since they do bring out the first and second IF. Had they brought out the LO with them, you'd have all the source signals for a straightforward tracking gen. Must've been intentional.

I'll try using max hold with a sweeping sig gen before modding. Who knows, an SA with TG might be just around the corner (or a VNA). :D

I wouldn't go THAT far...  :-DD  ESPECIALLY after that statement.   >:D

LOL! There's general public sanity, engineering sanity, and TEA sanity. Very different things. >:D

TEA is the way. | TEA Time channel
 

Offline bitseekerTopic starter

  • Super Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 9057
  • Country: us
  • Lots of engineer-tweakable parts inside!
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #31204 on: May 13, 2019, 12:27:53 am »
It's an odd architecture since they do bring out the first and second IF. Had they brought out the LO with them, you'd have all the source signals for a straightforward tracking gen. ... I'll try using max hold with a sweeping sig gen before modding.

Also the mod will be harder if the instrument is all PCB and SMD components. You would have to modify the pcb somehow to put 2 connectors (sma) in order to insert your directional coupler. I guess older SA are easier to mod.

Yeah, I'm not that keen on making major mods. I got a good deal on it, so if a TG becomes a pain point, I can always sell it on to fund a different model (bd139-style).

I should've checked for an LO output, but when there's a good deal on the table, you go TEA BLIND (Buying Low Is Never Detrimental). ;D
TEA is the way. | TEA Time channel
 

Offline bitseekerTopic starter

  • Super Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 9057
  • Country: us
  • Lots of engineer-tweakable parts inside!
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #31205 on: May 13, 2019, 12:35:28 am »
Checking again because bitseeker mentioned probes, looks like scopewa has got some more of the older ones in stock now. At least by the pics, these look like the same as the ones I bought years ago: https://www.ebay.com/itm/182595327054

Looks like he's also got some 200MHz P2200s in again... but the rise time seems a little high, IIRC. https://www.ebay.com/itm/182547468622

Anybody here got any intel on these?

About cheap probes, I just did some really non scientific tests, and the cheap Kuman p6100 probes are holding on up to 300Mhz easy. At 350Mhz they are just bellow the -3db mark.

They perform clearly better that the Tek P6054A and P6106 I have here. The Tek probes start dropping fast just after their rated bandwidth.

Also got a pair of Jinhao p6100, even if they look identical to the Kuman p6100, they don't perform as good.

Interesting. How flat are they, though? I'm less concerned about them going beyond rated 3dB and more concerned about significant peaks and valleys within the operating range.
TEA is the way. | TEA Time channel
 

Offline Kosmic

  • Super Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 2505
  • Country: ca
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #31206 on: May 13, 2019, 12:56:23 am »
Interesting. How flat are they, though? I'm less concerned about them going beyond rated 3dB and more concerned about significant peaks and valleys within the operating range.

Ok Ok, will improve my setup and produce some proper results with screenshot and everything  ^-^
 

Offline bitseekerTopic starter

  • Super Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 9057
  • Country: us
  • Lots of engineer-tweakable parts inside!
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #31207 on: May 13, 2019, 01:31:13 am »
Don't worry, I'm not completely set up to do it right away, either. For signal generation, I currently have coverage from DC to 50 MHz and 137 MHz to 4.4 GHz. So, I need to get something to fill the 50–137 MHz gap.
TEA is the way. | TEA Time channel
 

Offline mnementh

  • Super Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 17541
  • Country: us
  • *Hiding in the Dwagon-Cave*
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #31208 on: May 13, 2019, 03:03:07 am »
   Yeah, I don't have anything even marginally trustworthy signal-gen wise; my "Good luck" with the scopewa P6100s is based entirely on side-by-side use with my last intact original Tek probe. Construction seems half-decent though.

Thanks for confirming my sanity. It's an odd architecture since they do bring out the first and second IF. Had they brought out the LO with them, you'd have all the source signals for a straightforward tracking gen. Must've been intentional.

I'll try using max hold with a sweeping sig gen before modding. Who knows, an SA with TG might be just around the corner (or a VNA). :D
I wouldn't go THAT far...  :-DD  ESPECIALLY after that statement.   >:D
LOL! There's general public sanity, engineering sanity, and TEA sanity. Very different things. >:D

Agreed! In principle, at least.  ;) In practice, however, only one of those three actually has any presence in our prime material plane of existence.  :-DD

mnem
*out of practice*
« Last Edit: May 13, 2019, 03:07:10 am by mnementh »
alt-codes work here:  alt-0128 = €  alt-156 = £  alt-0216 = Ø  alt-225 = ß  alt-230 = µ  alt-234 = Ω  alt-236 = ∞  alt-248 = °
 

Offline 0culus

  • Super Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 3032
  • Country: us
  • Electronics, RF, and TEA Hobbyist
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #31209 on: May 13, 2019, 06:09:31 am »
Huh, it even kinda looks like a Tek mini probe.

I recently got a pair of brand new in  the package P6106A probes to go with the 7A26 amplifier I have in my 7904A. Nice to finally have some that have all the accessories.  :-DD They work very nicely too.
 

Online tggzzz

  • Super Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 19280
  • Country: gb
  • Numbers, not adjectives
    • Having fun doing more, with less
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #31210 on: May 13, 2019, 06:28:46 am »
Me: Hi Mom, did you get my flowers?

Mom: No, I didn't.

Me: They were supposed to be delivered Thursday.

Mom: Sorry, no flowers.

After I get off the phone with her I'm loaded for bear to call the flower place and bitch them out and get a refund. So I pull up my order. Look at it. Uh-oh. I screwed up. I put down May 16th delivery rather than May 9th delivery. DO'H  |O |O |O :palm:

I think I'll crawl back into my hole.  :-DD
In your defense, didn't you have a not so easily overlooked distraction visiting ?  ;)

Nope, no distractions so no defense other then a plain old screw-up.  :-//
I'll leave you to dig yourself out of that hole then.  :-DD

You know how Mothers are. Always forgiving. She said that when the flowers from my other brother die she'll have mine to appreciate. Can't beat that logic....and it gets me out of the doghouse.  :-DD

At big birthday parties where there a likely to be many flowers, I give an Amaryllis bulb in a pot, so it can be "started" later after the others have wilted.
There are lies, damned lies, statistics - and ADC/DAC specs.
Glider pilot's aphorism: "there is no substitute for span". Retort: "There is a substitute: skill+imagination. But you can buy span".
Having fun doing more, with less
 

Online tggzzz

  • Super Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 19280
  • Country: gb
  • Numbers, not adjectives
    • Having fun doing more, with less
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #31211 on: May 13, 2019, 06:31:54 am »
Interesting. How flat are they, though? I'm less concerned about them going beyond rated 3dB and more concerned about significant peaks and valleys within the operating range.

Ok Ok, will improve my setup and produce some proper results with screenshot and everything  ^-^

Scopes are about how waveforms look, so a good test is simply  a voltage step (not impulse). That also takes other probing issues into account.
There are lies, damned lies, statistics - and ADC/DAC specs.
Glider pilot's aphorism: "there is no substitute for span". Retort: "There is a substitute: skill+imagination. But you can buy span".
Having fun doing more, with less
 

Offline Specmaster

  • Super Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 14483
  • Country: gb
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #31212 on: May 13, 2019, 06:47:36 am »
   Yeah, I don't have anything even marginally trustworthy signal-gen wise; my "Good luck" with the scopewa P6100s is based entirely on side-by-side use with my last intact original Tek probe. Construction seems half-decent though.

Thanks for confirming my sanity. It's an odd architecture since they do bring out the first and second IF. Had they brought out the LO with them, you'd have all the source signals for a straightforward tracking gen. Must've been intentional.

I'll try using max hold with a sweeping sig gen before modding. Who knows, an SA with TG might be just around the corner (or a VNA). :D
I wouldn't go THAT far...  :-DD  ESPECIALLY after that statement.   >:D
LOL! There's general public sanity, engineering sanity, and TEA sanity. Very different things. >:D

Agreed! In principle, at least.  ;) In practice, however, only one of those three actually has any presence in our prime material plane of existence.  :-DD

mnem
*out of practice*
I have some of those probes as well that I got of an Ebay seller who seems to deal with probes in the main. They look and work like the genuine article IMO, I have gotten other probes that came with scopes and by comparison for build quality and feel, are far better then those, if I ever need more I'll happy to get them from the same seller. [emoji106]

Sent from my POT-LX1 using Tapatalk
Who let Murphy in?

Brymen-Fluke-HP-Thurlby-Thander-Tek-Extech-Black Star-GW-Avo-Kyoritsu-Amprobe-ITT-Robin-TTi
 
The following users thanked this post: mnementh

Offline Specmaster

  • Super Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 14483
  • Country: gb
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #31213 on: May 13, 2019, 06:51:41 am »
Me: Hi Mom, did you get my flowers?

Mom: No, I didn't.

Me: They were supposed to be delivered Thursday.

Mom: Sorry, no flowers.

After I get off the phone with her I'm loaded for bear to call the flower place and bitch them out and get a refund. So I pull up my order. Look at it. Uh-oh. I screwed up. I put down May 16th delivery rather than May 9th delivery. DO'H  |O |O |O :palm:

I think I'll crawl back into my hole.  :-DD
In your defense, didn't you have a not so easily overlooked distraction visiting ?  ;)

Nope, no distractions so no defense other then a plain old screw-up.  :-//
I'll leave you to dig yourself out of that hole then.  :-DD

You know how Mothers are. Always forgiving. She said that when the flowers from my other brother die she'll have mine to appreciate. Can't beat that logic....and it gets me out of the doghouse.  :-DD
Are both the 9th and 16th significant dates for Mom then? If so then that's reason why she is so forgiving. [emoji849]

Sent from my POT-LX1 using Tapatalk

Who let Murphy in?

Brymen-Fluke-HP-Thurlby-Thander-Tek-Extech-Black Star-GW-Avo-Kyoritsu-Amprobe-ITT-Robin-TTi
 

Offline med6753

  • Super Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 11313
  • Country: us
  • Tek nut
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #31214 on: May 13, 2019, 07:04:02 am »
Me: Hi Mom, did you get my flowers?

Mom: No, I didn't.

Me: They were supposed to be delivered Thursday.

Mom: Sorry, no flowers.

After I get off the phone with her I'm loaded for bear to call the flower place and bitch them out and get a refund. So I pull up my order. Look at it. Uh-oh. I screwed up. I put down May 16th delivery rather than May 9th delivery. DO'H  |O |O |O :palm:

I think I'll crawl back into my hole.  :-DD
In your defense, didn't you have a not so easily overlooked distraction visiting ?  ;)

Nope, no distractions so no defense other then a plain old screw-up.  :-//
I'll leave you to dig yourself out of that hole then.  :-DD

You know how Mothers are. Always forgiving. She said that when the flowers from my other brother die she'll have mine to appreciate. Can't beat that logic....and it gets me out of the doghouse.  :-DD
Are both the 9th and 16th significant dates for Mom then? If so then that's reason why she is so forgiving. [emoji849]

Sent from my POT-LX1 using Tapatalk

Sunday was "Mother's Day" here in the US. Was it not also Mother's Day in the UK?
An old gray beard with an attitude.
 

Offline bd139

  • Super Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 23017
  • Country: gb
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #31215 on: May 13, 2019, 07:14:02 am »
No different dates. This causes us much panic every year whenever you lot go mother's day crazy.

Edit: I'm happy with my mother. She complains that it is a commercialised extension of a religious holiday (lent) here and refuses to acknowledge its existence or accept any gifts as she's a raving anti-capitalist and atheist.
« Last Edit: May 13, 2019, 07:17:10 am by bd139 »
 

Offline Brumby

  • Supporter
  • ****
  • Posts: 12288
  • Country: au
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #31216 on: May 13, 2019, 07:24:49 am »
Sunday was "Mother's Day" here in the US. Was it not also Mother's Day in the UK?

... but it WAS here in Oz.
 

Offline tautech

  • Super Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 28136
  • Country: nz
  • Taupaki Technologies Ltd. Siglent Distributor NZ.
    • Taupaki Technologies Ltd.
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #31217 on: May 13, 2019, 08:23:10 am »
Sunday was "Mother's Day" here in the US. Was it not also Mother's Day in the UK?

... but it WAS here in Oz.
Here in NZ too.
Unlike Portugal where a certain member I chat with is where their Mothers day was last weekend.  :-//

'Twould never do in NZ as it conflicts with the start of our gamebird shooting season.  :(
Avid Rabid Hobbyist
Siglent Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@SiglentVideo/videos
 

Offline Brumby

  • Supporter
  • ****
  • Posts: 12288
  • Country: au
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #31218 on: May 13, 2019, 08:36:24 am »
 :-X
 

Offline Specmaster

  • Super Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 14483
  • Country: gb
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #31219 on: May 13, 2019, 08:45:27 am »
No different dates. This causes us much panic every year whenever you lot go mother's day crazy.

Edit: I'm happy with my mother. She complains that it is a commercialised extension of a religious holiday (lent) here and refuses to acknowledge its existence or accept any gifts as she's a raving anti-capitalist and atheist.
And of course she is right, it is indeed just another trick the commercial world has devised to separate us from our hard earned cash. I'd used to my Mum little gifts at various occasions throughout the year when the mode took me, just as I do SWMBO, its the small things that matter.
Who let Murphy in?

Brymen-Fluke-HP-Thurlby-Thander-Tek-Extech-Black Star-GW-Avo-Kyoritsu-Amprobe-ITT-Robin-TTi
 

Offline tautech

  • Super Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 28136
  • Country: nz
  • Taupaki Technologies Ltd. Siglent Distributor NZ.
    • Taupaki Technologies Ltd.
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #31220 on: May 13, 2019, 08:50:11 am »
Avid Rabid Hobbyist
Siglent Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@SiglentVideo/videos
 

Offline med6753

  • Super Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 11313
  • Country: us
  • Tek nut
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #31221 on: May 13, 2019, 08:52:38 am »
The package from the Great White North (Canada) finally cleared JFK Customs last night and currently at NY Metro distribution center. So it won't be delivered today. Possible tomorrow but I'm figuring Wednesday.
An old gray beard with an attitude.
 

Offline bd139

  • Super Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 23017
  • Country: gb
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #31222 on: May 13, 2019, 09:30:44 am »
At least yours entered the postal system. My toy hasn't even been dispatched yet  >:(

Apparently today. Will see what happens. I expect better service for a stack of cash. Once it has been received and checked I'll bitch about it on their mailing list.
 

Offline BravoV

  • Super Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 7547
  • Country: 00
  • +++ ATH1
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #31223 on: May 13, 2019, 09:46:02 am »
The mighty Texan eagle just dropped this, thanks Mnementh !  :clap:

Clue, it will help my "handicapped/crippled" scope (literally).  :-DD
 
The following users thanked this post: mnementh

Offline Brumby

  • Supporter
  • ****
  • Posts: 12288
  • Country: au
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #31224 on: May 13, 2019, 10:32:41 am »
:-X
Another hobby ?  :-//

Just a passing thought connecting the two events.  Think "in-law".   ;D
 


Share me

Digg  Facebook  SlashDot  Delicious  Technorati  Twitter  Google  Yahoo
Smf