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Don't think I'd like to go either when guns are so easy to get hold of, why the hell would you want to have gun about you anyway in a so called civilised country, beats the hell out of me.
Since when is shipping to Australia cheap. And come on spill the beans, whats in there.
Random photo from the pre-EEVblog membership archives. Thandar TF200 frequency counter insides. Nice little boxes these, assuming the batteries haven't leaked!
Quote from: bd139 on February 20, 2018, 08:11:18 amRandom photo from the pre-EEVblog membership archives. Thandar TF200 frequency counter insides. Nice little boxes these, assuming the batteries haven't leaked!It took me four takes to figure out the scale of that thing. The battery section is messing with my brain.
Those are C sized batteries (x6). It's pretty small.
Quote from: bd139 on February 20, 2018, 08:34:28 amThose are C sized batteries (x6). It's pretty small.Gosh, they are smaller than I expected, 6v then.
Insides. Nice clean design as always with post-1990 Thandar stuff. Appears to be date coded around 1996. No problems noted - no bulging caps or burned output resistors suggesting it has been looked after well.And unlike HP, very little opportunity to kill yourself! Look at all the nice booted inlets, nearly tied, protection around the transformer and it is entirely devoid of AC anywhere near the board.
I'm always surprised by those transformers stuck right in the case next to quite sensitive electronics. Apparently it's not an issue, but I wouldn't have thought so.
I keep looking at the TTi 1604 but they are still expensive, and like you with the Tek 465, I like my HP A which is nice to use and also of course I have the Keithley 160 (nixie) and the only problem with that is it's only DC and 3.5 digits but so so accurate.Right now I'm looking at an Iwatsu 100Mhz 4 channel scope, (they are really 2+2 channels with the extra channels only mv and 1v per division) as a suitable replacement for my Goldstar OS-9100D scope andA and all the spares my trusty 25Mhz Rapid Electronics one. The Iwatsu 100Mhz has cursors and other shit on it to compliment my Hitachi. May even sell my HP 1740A and all the spares I have for it as well if I win that 100Mhz one.
Quote from: Mr. Scram on February 20, 2018, 11:17:31 amI'm always surprised by those transformers stuck right in the case next to quite sensitive electronics. Apparently it's not an issue, but I wouldn't have thought so.It's miles away from anything high impedance which is all right a the front of the unit. Tis fine.Quote from: Specmaster on February 20, 2018, 11:07:43 amI keep looking at the TTi 1604 but they are still expensive, and like you with the Tek 465, I like my HP A which is nice to use and also of course I have the Keithley 160 (nixie) and the only problem with that is it's only DC and 3.5 digits but so so accurate.Right now I'm looking at an Iwatsu 100Mhz 4 channel scope, (they are really 2+2 channels with the extra channels only mv and 1v per division) as a suitable replacement for my Goldstar OS-9100D scope andA and all the spares my trusty 25Mhz Rapid Electronics one. The Iwatsu 100Mhz has cursors and other shit on it to compliment my Hitachi. May even sell my HP 1740A and all the spares I have for it as well if I win that 100Mhz one.I found a SMM for the 1604 the other day. Has a PIC as the brains in it so not totally repairable if it goes pear shape. 1906 is a better deal. They are programmable and have standard parts, CPU, RAM, EPROM, SEEPROM in them. Also the earlier 1905 also, 6502 powered!Iwatsu made some nice kit. I'm not sure why it wasn't as popular as some of the other stuff on the market. It was slightly cheaper and did the job just as well.