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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #47475 on: January 20, 2020, 07:19:33 am »
I saw tiny scope and my eye's lit up a bit. 
However I just joined the Nixie club and won 2 ebay auctions today so I should take it easy  :palm:
Also it's in NZ, and shipping would be a lot :'(

Anyone want a itsy bitsy teeny weeny scope:
https://www.trademe.co.nz/antiques-collectables/clocks-scientific-instruments/listing-2497592780.htm?rsqid=6f40f0c80f454c539056deb775be8277-001

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #47476 on: January 20, 2020, 11:49:42 am »
 

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #47477 on: January 20, 2020, 12:01:20 pm »
I think that is the little GEC  ^-^
but a hard job to make it fine.

Now starting a project for the Maker Faire.
It must be a construction where the people think how many sick in the head must be the person who made that  :palm:
 
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #47478 on: January 20, 2020, 01:44:10 pm »
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Know yourself and be happy.
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #47479 on: January 20, 2020, 02:31:56 pm »
Wow, weve reached 1900 pages already and we're only a tad over 2 years old  :-DD
Who let Murphy in?

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #47480 on: January 20, 2020, 03:54:36 pm »
Wow, weve reached 1900 pages already and we're only a tad over 2 years old  :-DD

Bunch of gossipy people we are.  :palm:      :-DD
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #47481 on: January 20, 2020, 03:55:09 pm »


Awwww... it juss a bay-beeee... :-DD

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #47482 on: January 20, 2020, 04:22:09 pm »
Bunch of gossipy gobby people we are.  :palm:      :-DD

There, FTFY.
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #47483 on: January 20, 2020, 04:30:32 pm »
Bunch of gossipy gobby people we are.  :palm:      :-DD

There, FTFY.

:)    :-+

Thanks.

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #47484 on: January 20, 2020, 05:16:01 pm »
"gobby" = German "geschwätzig" is based on London dialect
where gob means "Mund" as for "gob stopper" = Schnuller.

Probably "gob" is related in some way to German "Gaumen"
both sharing the letter "G"
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #47485 on: January 20, 2020, 05:47:24 pm »
Avid Rabid Hobbyist
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #47486 on: January 20, 2020, 05:54:26 pm »
"gobby" = German "geschwätzig" is based on London dialect

Not just London. The use of "gobby" = "talks too much/is prone to (inappropriate) answering back"* is pretty universal from southern England (but not the south west for some reason) and all the way up to Scotland.

Which reminds me of the poetic, principally Scots, term "gobshite" as in "He always talks errant nonsense"; typical usage "If that wee gobshite d'nay shut up sometime soon, he's ganee feel the end o ma boot".

* The meaning is context sensitive.
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #47488 on: January 20, 2020, 06:34:23 pm »
 
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #47489 on: January 20, 2020, 06:40:00 pm »
Anyone want a itsy bitsy teeny weeny scope:
https://www.trademe.co.nz/antiques-collectables/clocks-scientific-instruments/listing-2497592780.htm?rsqid=6f40f0c80f454c539056deb775be8277-001

Currently @ 10 NZD



Im am interested :) but I have no account for that shop
I do.......if you really do want it.

up to 30$ not more. (+postage of coarse)
USD ?
NZ cross rate to US$ is currently ~66c which converts to ~NZ$45.
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #47490 on: January 20, 2020, 06:41:38 pm »
This installment will complete the compensation adjustments on the CA plug-in.

Here's an internal view of the CA plug-in. The compensation variable capacitors are all neatly arranged on the far right in a row. Channel A top, channel B bottom.



The test set up. Heath IG-4244 Scope Calibrator set to fast rise time 1Khz square wave and the Fluke 1900A Frequency Counter connected to the 535A Vertical Signal Out as a monitor.



Of all the attenuators the only one was slightly off. Channel A, 0.5V/div.



Fixed.



Now the IG-4244 set to 1MHz.



Amazingly good 1MHz waveform. The bandpass of the CA plug-in is 27MHz while the 535A is only 15MHz. So the 535A sets the total system response.



Next up......a more involved frequency response check.
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #47491 on: January 20, 2020, 06:45:24 pm »
My ebay watch list is filled with obscure tiny scopes.  At one point I was even convinced to make an instagram for my NLS ms-15 scope :P.   Although tiny spectrum analyzer add on for tiny scopes are also great, I love the tek 1401.  For great obscure oscilloscopes I love the yamaha pt3 tuner, it was a scope designed for tuning instruments, a very specialized piece of adorable kit.

https://www.oscilloscopemuseum.com/oscilloscope-yamaha-pt3-s5049.html

Having a test equipment addiction is difficult when you don't have a lot of room.  The solution, only collect small adorable test equipment.

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #47492 on: January 20, 2020, 06:49:11 pm »
That PT-3 is cool.  :-+
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #47496 on: January 20, 2020, 07:38:04 pm »
My ebay watch list is filled with obscure tiny scopes.

I'll bet your hovercraft is full of eels, too!  ;)
 

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #47497 on: January 20, 2020, 07:44:58 pm »
Another steamer  :palm: :palm: :palm: :palm:

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F303344717122

Sigh. Now, if it also indicated the mains frequency there might be some excuse, but...
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #47498 on: January 20, 2020, 07:49:30 pm »
USD ?
NZ cross rate to US$ is currently ~66c which converts to ~NZ$45.

us$ or €, yes  ^-^
 
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