Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread

[Kosmic]

Appears to be coins inside the unit? 

hehe I didn't read the description. I hope it didn't short something.

[bd139]

The rattling coins help shake the bad volts out during transit.

More seriously that sort of shit makes me think “ex school” 

[Robert763]

Free (for shipping) Tek spares in the GWN
https://www.sphere.bc.ca/test/stuffday.html#tekfans

[mnementh]

And further up in the page... a rare treat indeed for your 4x5.

mnem
 

[mnementh]

Cookin' some Ballistix on the bench. 

Came up immediately, BIOS either had a DDR4-3600 XMP profile preconfigured or drew it correctly from the RAM. Turned it on in BIOS and all was joyous at 3602Mhz/4.2GHz-ish. None of the hair-pulling I had on my Aorus Pro MB. What a difference a few months makes in the maturity of a computer product's life cycle.

Now all that remains is to figure out how I'm going to mount the temp sensor for the case-mounted thermometer; which you can see there on top of the SSD box. 

Don't worry... the unicorn blarff is going back to the store. It was a impulse purchase from Princess Auto's Surplus aisle; we discovered once it got home that you can't turn the rainbow to a single color, and even my 13-year-old son couldn't stand the idea of living with that shit. 

mnem

[psykok]

Today arrival: Mouser   

Mine is out for delivery. 

min too, should arrive quite soon 

[cyclin_al]

I have been looking for a counter and I have been looking for my first item with nixxie tubes for quite some time.

What do you think is a fair price for a working HP 5326B with option 01 (system volt meter)?
Photo was provided with all tubes illuminated (but not a series of photos showing all digits for each tube).
(Attachment Link)
Looks to be in good shape externally.
Seller is asking $130 CAD.
Seller is semi-local (about 2 hours drive one way).

Nice one!...
i have one, i was surprized how good it still is...
mine was already adjusted by the seller... no fun ...
that prize is okey i would say

Yes, I found your video yesterday.  I plan to watch it this evening if I am not too tired...

Road trip late afternoon Thursday to go see it !!!  (and pick it up)

The seller has added some more items to his Kijiji ads:
- couple of HP 436A RF power meters (too much for my budget at the moment, unless I should make a special case...)
- Tektronix Type D & L plug-ins for 500 series scope
- HP 612A signal generator
- Marconi TF995A/2M (tempted by this one)
- TS 497B signal generator
https://www.kijiji.ca/o-profile/1002310289/listings/1

[mnementh]

The rattling coins help shake the bad volts out during transit. More seriously that sort of shit makes me think “ex school” 

It's your "tip" for bothering to clean the poor fucker out. 

mnem
 

[med6753]

Today arrival: Mouser   

Mine is out for delivery. 

min too, should arrive quite soon

Delivered. I can finally start the Type 321A project.

[Cerebus]

It measures signatures ? 

Yeah, used by HP Sales Engineers to measure the value of your signature, to see if you were good for the contract you were signing. 

[Cerebus]

TSP: Review and teardown of the new Keithley 2470 1kV SMU   

Want one!

Added to my queue of videos to watch.

[Ice-Tea]

I just told a student to take a knot out of a cable or his circuit may not work.

I will possibly go to hell for this... 

[Cerebus]

I just told a student to take a knot out of a cable or his circuit may not work.

I will possibly go to hell for this... 

No, the knot's there to stop the electricity leaking out! Now, it won't work.

[mnementh]

   

Sensor is installed. Sanity-check thermometer will work as it did when this was my PC. The little dwagon-angel on my shoulder can now rest easy.

mnem
And maybe... just maybe... I've taught my son a valuable lesson aboot the value of redundancy.

[Specmaster]

The rattling coins help shake the bad volts out during transit.

More seriously that sort of shit makes me think “ex school” 

There seems to be long open ventilation slots in the recess at the top, alongside the handle, no wonder coins got inside it, what a crap piece of design was that then?

[Ice-Tea]

I just told a student to take a knot out of a cable or his circuit may not work.

I will possibly go to hell for this... 

No, the knot's there to stop the electricity leaking out! Now, it won't work.

I think you would make a wonderfull teacher...

[Robert763]

I've seen these two eby sellers before. Both in Blackpool, no recent feedback, same photo on feedback page.
Kit looks like ramco stuff. Two examples, claerly the same item
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CASELLA-SOUND-LEVEL-METER-CEL-430-M2-cased-and-fully-calibrated/174672870266?
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CASELLA-A-SOUND-LEVEL-METER-CEL-430-M2-calibrated-before-storage/274712323828?

What do you think, weird seller or scam?

[Cerebus]

Difficult to tell. Both look like a set of listings from one of the regular eBay scammers, however both have feedback >12 months old for quite eclectic activity as a seller. If it's a scam it's a well executed one.

[mnementh]

Sound-check gear making the rounds of rando wannabe DJs and/or dB Drag heroes...?

mnem
 

[mansaxel]

Sound-check gear making the rounds of rando wannabe DJs and/or dB Drag heroes...?

mnem
 

Not likely. Those people don't carry SPL meters; they're more likely to avoid those who carry them. (There might be a bragging angle here, though -- I've not seen very often.)

[tonyalbus]

I have been looking for a counter and I have been looking for my first item with nixxie tubes for quite some time.

What do you think is a fair price for a working HP 5326B with option 01 (system volt meter)?
Photo was provided with all tubes illuminated (but not a series of photos showing all digits for each tube).
(Attachment Link)
Looks to be in good shape externally.
Seller is asking $130 CAD.
Seller is semi-local (about 2 hours drive one way).

Nice one!...
i have one, i was surprized how good it still is...
mine was already adjusted by the seller... no fun ...
that prize is okey i would say

Yes, I found your video yesterday.  I plan to watch it this evening if I am not too tired...

Road trip late afternoon Thursday to go see it !!!  (and pick it up)

The seller has added some more items to his Kijiji ads:
- couple of HP 436A RF power meters (too much for my budget at the moment, unless I should make a special case...)
- Tektronix Type D & L plug-ins for 500 series scope
- HP 612A signal generator
- Marconi TF995A/2M (tempted by this one)
- TS 497B signal generator
https://www.kijiji.ca/o-profile/1002310289/listings/1

Road trip, road trip... Cool  .. 

[mnementh]

I just told a student to take a knot out of a cable or his circuit may not work.

I will possibly go to hell for this... 

No, the knot's there to stop the electricity leaking out! Now, it won't work.

I think you would make a wonderful teacher...

Hmmm... When I worked AV crew/Service dept for my high school... old man Basche taught us to tie a knot in the end of bad cables, such that anyone who came across said cable knew it needed repair before it could be put back into service. Of course, this was also reciprocally supported and reinforced by the teachers in the Stage and Performing Arts Depts so those cables came back to us for repair.

This was also SOP in every Electronics Repair Shop I've ever worked in, both my own and others.

mnem
Nowadays I imagine no public school has such an AV/Repair Dept anymore... the sort where cables get repaired instead of replaced.

[mnementh]

Sound-check gear making the rounds of rando wannabe DJs and/or dB Drag heroes...?

mnem
 

Not likely. Those people don't carry SPL meters; they're more likely to avoid those who carry them. (There might be a bragging angle here, though -- I've not seen very often.)

Well, DJ-ing has gotten a lot more hardcore technical in the last couple decades; pretty sure if you saw it in a deadmau5 workshop vid, there will be a demand for it.

As for dB Drags... there you're dead wrong. We all had our own meters back in the day; we were serious aboot SPL. A lot worse than not being able to back up your claims was putting yourself in the wrong class and making a Ben Quadinaros showing for yourself.

mnem
#cringetacular

[tautech]

As for dB Drags... there you're dead wrong. We all had our own meters back in the day; we were serious aboot SPL. A lot worse than not being able to back up your claims was putting yourself in the wrong class and making a Ben Quadinaros showing for yourself.

mnem
#cringetacular

20B @ 10k RPM on the 2 step with 40lb of boost on methanol is the loudest thing I've ever heard. 
Man did that thing turn heads at the drags. 

[mansaxel]

Sound-check gear making the rounds of rando wannabe DJs and/or dB Drag heroes...?

mnem
 

Not likely. Those people don't carry SPL meters; they're more likely to avoid those who carry them. (There might be a bragging angle here, though -- I've not seen very often.)

Well, DJ-ing has gotten a lot more hardcore technical in the last couple decades; pretty sure if you saw it in a deadmau5 workshop vid, there will be a demand for it.

As for dB Drags... there you're dead wrong. We all had our own meters back in the day; we were serious aboot SPL. A lot worse than not being able to back up your claims was putting yourself in the wrong class and making a Ben Quadinaros showing for yourself.

mnem
#cringetacular

It's the systems engineer who has the dB meter, not the DJ. I did from time to time carry a Bruel & Kjær meter in that rôle. My personal record is 126 dB, C-weighted, with just the bass bins running. That was impressive.

Even more impressive than that was, IMNSHO, that we managed to play vinyl in that room. At those levels.