Locally (10-15km away) some of the small Bee Keepers lost a total of over 60 hives due to one local Potato farmer doing the wrong thing.
Anyone need bits for one and or want to do battle with the seller to ship it its a cheap parts donor maybe eBay auction: #184975440512 Hp 432A Analog Power Meter
As a first step we could try to stop dumping 1.300.000.000 metric tons of food every year.
Without bees we're fucked.
Tip: you can bake these packets in the oven to recharge (dry) them, to be used again or after a humid period. Just not too hot to burn the paper packet.
Don't piss off French farmers:
If it was my machine at work showing all those signs, I would probably press the red button and calmly leave the room.
Here we go. Pile-o-stuff arrived. All packaged in one box. Everything was neatly taped up with masking tape so it was plug side out, wrapped in bubble wrap then placed in a correctly sized box full of polystyrene chips. I am impressed!
Haven't powered anything up yet as still working. Not sure how long I want to bring the solartron up for in case the mains filter explodes.
Both are labelled as ex DTEO (Defence Testing and Evaluation Organisation) and are MoD labelled and crow footed
Edit: quick power up test:
1. Tek 475 has some sickness. Horizontal is only spanning half the display (hopefully not tube damage!), one cracked knob and one loose shaft. I will take it to bits later and work that out. Probably repairable.
2. 7150 plus appears to be working fine but will check out properly later in short controlled bursts so the mains filter doesn't have time to go up
Here we go. Pile-o-stuff arrived. All packaged in one box. Everything was neatly taped up with masking tape so it was plug side out, wrapped in bubble wrap then placed in a correctly sized box full of polystyrene chips. I am impressed!
Haven't powered anything up yet as still working. Not sure how long I want to bring the solartron up for in case the mains filter explodes.
Both are labelled as ex DTEO (Defence Testing and Evaluation Organisation) and are MoD labelled and crow footed
Edit: quick power up test:
1. Tek 475 has some sickness. Horizontal is only spanning half the display (hopefully not tube damage!), one cracked knob and one loose shaft. I will take it to bits later and work that out. Probably repairable.
2. 7150 plus appears to be working fine but will check out properly later in short controlled bursts so the mains filter doesn't have time to go upYay, I was correct, it did get properly packed and well wrapped in bubble wrap
Good idea with the 7150plus, the bloody filter in that is a pipe bomb waiting to go off, also bloody expensive if you replace it like for like
Quick update on the 475. It was advertised and shown fully working and now does not - deflection is not occurring at all towards the right hand half of the tube. This suggests that either the wire has come off, there is tube damage, something is dislodged inside it or there's an amp issue somewhere.
Going to approach the seller first...
As advertised:
As tested:
If it was my machine at work showing all those signs, I would probably press the red button and calmly leave the room.
Unfortunately, were you to follow that action in the grand scheme of things you'd find yourself with Elon Musk, Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos and a handful of their minions for company. Not an attractive proposition. And by minions I don't mean nice little yellow folk like Kevin, Stuart and Bob.
Nothing like a food bargain as well. You will find me regularly in Asda just before closing. Got me 500g 5% mince for today’s dinner yesterday for 20p.
Thanks for the link. It's actually cheaper if I design my own and get it shipped from JLCPCB
So I did a quick ripple check with DMM And the 110V has 12V RMS ripple on it. All the other rails are good. Culprit found
Nothing like a food bargain as well. You will find me regularly in Asda just before closing. Got me 500g 5% mince for today’s dinner yesterday for 20p.
Looking for "yellow labels" has several advantges apart from cost:
- speed: fewer things to look at, fewer choices to make
- serendipity: you look at things you wouldn't normally see, maybe even liking them so much you buy them again
1. Tek 475 has some sickness. Horizontal is only spanning half the display (hopefully not tube damage!), one cracked knob and one loose shaft. I will take it to bits later and work that out. Probably repairable.
2. 7150 plus appears to be working fine but will check out properly later in short controlled bursts so the mains filter doesn't have time to go up
Went to a provincial hamfest today, the first one for years.
Lots of stuff that should be put in recycling waste bins, lots of beer bellies, too few masks, fortunately most stalls were outside.
Was about to look a brass and mahogany box with many an in resistors, but the bloke in front of me nabbed it. Got something else that I don't need, condition unknown. If it works I'll flip it, if not then it cost less than the petrol any way.
We've got one coming up.
I've grabbed some bargains over the years.
One time I noticed a nice leather case, & thought "that might be useful!"------at $A4.00, what was there to lose?
The guy popped it open, & there was a Levell audio oscillator in there ---a non- functional one!
I took it home, & it just turned out to be the FOUR 276 9v batteries dead.
These are "unobtainium" in Oz, (always were, our 276P batteries had a phenolic plug, instead of the press stud connectors).
Some appropriate AA battery holders fixed that problem, & away it went.
It's still going strong, & I must say, for something that looks "El Cheapo", it "punches well above its weight" when it comes to both specs & usability.
Bugger all hamfest wise in this part of the country at the moment. The usual ones where I end up with half a car of stuff (easier for me than many ) are postponed until 2022. The closest one is actually St Neots which is still a fair trek from me.
I should probably do that one and go for a walk somewhere around there in the afternoon.