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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #84500 on: March 05, 2021, 10:52:32 am »
Yes .... I'm counting the boxes I have because of his kindness..........................
 
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #84501 on: March 05, 2021, 10:57:21 am »
Which proofs my assumption, that bean IS a very kind person.
And you can count on him every time.

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #84502 on: March 05, 2021, 11:07:42 am »
Yes.... and I have to redesign and rebuild my bench to accommodate several of these boxes.
 
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #84503 on: March 05, 2021, 11:10:58 am »
That is a nice one that is!

Toellner TOE 8735-2
starting bid: 199.- Euro, currently zero bids.



https://www.ebay.com/itm/133680309577

And, as usual: NAWTS.

Oh yes, that beats my older 8735 hands down! Mine has only 0..15 V and the symmetric output is fixed at ±12 V.
 

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #84504 on: March 05, 2021, 11:11:20 am »
What a good friend you are having in bean. He is keeping you busy which is good for physcal AND mental health!  :-+ :-DD
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #84505 on: March 05, 2021, 11:12:35 am »
That is a nice one that is!

Toellner TOE 8735-2
starting bid: 199.- Euro, currently zero bids.



https://www.ebay.com/itm/133680309577

And, as usual: NAWTS.

Oh yes, that beats my older 8735 hands down! Mine has only 0..15 V and the symmetric output is fixed at ±12 V.

Three days to go and still zero bids. :)
Chances are good ...
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #84506 on: March 05, 2021, 11:19:52 am »
Who little old innocent me enabling >:D :-DD
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #84507 on: March 05, 2021, 11:29:06 am »
Yeah, well, the reason I'm looking at a better machine for CAD is to play with your laser cutter design...

...so you're responsible for that, too.
 

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #84508 on: March 05, 2021, 11:46:53 am »
Together with the 8060A I got an AVO Multiminor and a Hung Chang toy. The Hung Chang is never coming close to being used; it's down right dangerous.  The Multiminor looks superficially OK, but is as of yet untested; my plan is to assess it this weekend. In the repair queue I've also got a Model 7 Avometer that looks OK from the outside but is somehow broken; no reaction on any range is detected.

None of these will be turned into a lamp.

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As far as the telephone; I've got an Asterisk PABX at home where one of my Grandstream ATAs has support for pulse dialling, including the Swedish system where -- properly -- 0 is less than 1.

0 < 1. Cool and makes sense. But how many pulses does 0 generate? Less than 1? ^-^

0 on a rotary dial generates 10 pulses. That is why it is next to 9 not 1. If you had a 10 position electromechanical selector in the exchange it would go back to it's original position when fed 10 pulses so actual position incement would 0. In reality the selector advances 10 steps, but you would confuse people if you put a "10" in the middle of a 'phone number. Early example of human machine interface logic.
 
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #84509 on: March 05, 2021, 12:18:37 pm »
Together with the 8060A I got an AVO Multiminor and a Hung Chang toy. The Hung Chang is never coming close to being used; it's down right dangerous.  The Multiminor looks superficially OK, but is as of yet untested; my plan is to assess it this weekend. In the repair queue I've also got a Model 7 Avometer that looks OK from the outside but is somehow broken; no reaction on any range is detected.

None of these will be turned into a lamp.

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As far as the telephone; I've got an Asterisk PABX at home where one of my Grandstream ATAs has support for pulse dialling, including the Swedish system where -- properly -- 0 is less than 1.

0 < 1. Cool and makes sense. But how many pulses does 0 generate? Less than 1? ^-^

I know you're trying to pull my leg, but, just to be explicit:

The swedish system is:
DigitPulses
01
12
23

...et cetera up to 9.

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #84510 on: March 05, 2021, 12:37:21 pm »
Yeah, well, the reason I'm looking at a better machine for CAD is to play with your laser cutter design...

...so you're responsible for that, too.

What do you currently have?
 

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #84511 on: March 05, 2021, 12:37:47 pm »
Together with the 8060A I got an AVO Multiminor and a Hung Chang toy. The Hung Chang is never coming close to being used; it's down right dangerous.  The Multiminor looks superficially OK, but is as of yet untested; my plan is to assess it this weekend. In the repair queue I've also got a Model 7 Avometer that looks OK from the outside but is somehow broken; no reaction on any range is detected.

None of these will be turned into a lamp.

 :phew:

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As far as the telephone; I've got an Asterisk PABX at home where one of my Grandstream ATAs has support for pulse dialling, including the Swedish system where -- properly -- 0 is less than 1.

0 < 1. Cool and makes sense. But how many pulses does 0 generate? Less than 1? ^-^

I know you're trying to pull my leg, but, just to be explicit:

The swedish system is:
DigitPulses
01
12
23

...et cetera up to 9.

But this would mean, that on the old phone with the dialing scale it goes like 0, 1, 2, ... 9 and not as in Germany from 1, 2, 3, ... 9, 0

Example: the famous W48

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #84512 on: March 05, 2021, 12:58:03 pm »
Trust the Swedes and New Zealanders to be difficult  :D
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #84513 on: March 05, 2021, 01:00:57 pm »
Yeah, well, the reason I'm looking at a better machine for CAD is to play with your laser cutter design...

...so you're responsible for that, too.

What do you currently have?

AMD Phenom 9850 Quad core 2.5Ghz
8GB RAM
GTX 1060 6GB graphics card
ASUS M3A mainboard

Running Win 7 64 bit.  (I need Win 7 for XP mode support as I have hardware that still functions well for desired purpose and doesn't have driver support past XP)
 

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #84514 on: March 05, 2021, 01:06:07 pm »
Together with the 8060A I got an AVO Multiminor and a Hung Chang toy. The Hung Chang is never coming close to being used; it's down right dangerous.  The Multiminor looks superficially OK, but is as of yet untested; my plan is to assess it this weekend. In the repair queue I've also got a Model 7 Avometer that looks OK from the outside but is somehow broken; no reaction on any range is detected.

None of these will be turned into a lamp.

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As far as the telephone; I've got an Asterisk PABX at home where one of my Grandstream ATAs has support for pulse dialling, including the Swedish system where -- properly -- 0 is less than 1.

0 < 1. Cool and makes sense. But how many pulses does 0 generate? Less than 1? ^-^

Now you're listening to the song of the nulls...

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #84515 on: March 05, 2021, 01:11:21 pm »
Trust the Swedes and New Zealanders to be difficult  :D
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What did we do ?
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #84516 on: March 05, 2021, 01:13:01 pm »
Yes.... and I have to redesign and rebuild my bench to accommodate several of these boxes.

So bean also provides job security as well. Win-Win, sez I!!! :-DD

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #84517 on: March 05, 2021, 01:32:37 pm »
all those newer boards will only support W7 in a VM, so anything beyond Skylake i*-6* will not cut it for you.
The 1060 6GB is faster than the Quadro 4k by a reasonable margin, there is no need to upgrade that.

I think you have 3 avenues:
1) go for an old haswell board with an i5-4590 or newer. This will give you a notable performance boost for very reasonable money. Upgradable to i7-4790k or so.  I could be talked into letting one go ...
2) go for a Haswell X99 quad channel and a Xeon E5-26xxv3. If you can get hold of that, it's still good bang for bucks. However at least 3 times as expensive as option 1)
3) go for a skylake board and an I5-6500 or better. Decent boards, decent performance, about 2 - 3 x as expensive as option 1)
4) get an x370 or B350 board, mount a Ryzen 5 3600 on it and knacker around until you get W7 up and running. Once you do: 2 - 3 x the speed of 1). Fastest of all options listed, but most expensive one.

1) you could potentially get for 100 - 120 Brussels Pesos (board mem, cpu) plus shipping. It will work with your 1060.



 

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #84518 on: March 05, 2021, 01:38:12 pm »
Fuck my life does anyone know how to package stuff?!?!!

D755 arrived. That’s all the packaging you see there. It was floating in the box with 4 inches headroom. All the outer packaging was destroyed. We’re talking 10kg scope here.

It appears it may have survived unscathed as I can’t see any cosmetic damage at least. Time will tell. I’m not powering it up yet.

 

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #84519 on: March 05, 2021, 01:46:28 pm »
Fuck my life does anyone know how to package stuff?!?!!

D755 arrived. That’s all the packaging you see there. It was floating in the box with 4 inches headroom. All the outer packaging was destroyed. We’re talking 10kg scope here.

It appears it may have survived unscathed as I can’t see any cosmetic damage at least. Time will tell. I’m not powering it up yet.

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #84520 on: March 05, 2021, 02:01:27 pm »



My million dollar idea: A working [SMITE] button for your keyboard.

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #84521 on: March 05, 2021, 02:06:04 pm »
Yep. I can’t find anything visibly wrong with it which probably says something about telequipment. Will power it up later and see what happens. The special mains plug that TQ use has disintegrated but I sort of expect that and will be replacing it anyway and it looks like it died years ago.

It is ex ministry of defence and has crows foot on it. Last cal April 1980  :-DD
 

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #84522 on: March 05, 2021, 02:13:22 pm »
Fuck my life does anyone know how to package stuff?!?!!

D755 arrived. That’s all the packaging you see there. It was floating in the box with 4 inches headroom. All the outer packaging was destroyed. We’re talking 10kg scope here.

It appears it may have survived unscathed as I can’t see any cosmetic damage at least. Time will tell. I’m not powering it up yet.

So, uhm, that's an actual company that send you that?  :o

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« Reply #84523 on: March 05, 2021, 02:19:56 pm »
Yep. I can’t find anything visibly wrong with it which probably says something about telequipment. Will power it up later and see what happens. The special mains plug that TQ use has disintegrated but I sort of expect that and will be replacing it anyway and it looks like it died years ago.
Yep I shoehorned IEC socket in place of that infernal  :rant: connector in the D83 I had.
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #84524 on: March 05, 2021, 02:56:34 pm »
Fuck my life does anyone know how to package stuff?!?!!

D755 arrived. That’s all the packaging you see there. It was floating in the box with 4 inches headroom. All the outer packaging was destroyed. We’re talking 10kg scope here.

It appears it may have survived unscathed as I can’t see any cosmetic damage at least. Time will tell. I’m not powering it up yet.

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