Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread

[0culus]

In happier news, bd139 will be happy to see that there is life in my surplus store -hp- Harrison power supply. I determined the cap that had been lifted is actually fine, so I resoldered it. Brought it up on a variac supply just in case....but it's fine. Just a case of a mildly wild meter movement, solved by a quick deoxit of the meter mode switch.

Lovely bits of kits, but I just can't help but focus on the 575 in the background... I think I need treatment...

It's hard to blame you, as it is a very fine example.  Old photo, lab has been rearranged twice since then. 

[Neomys Sapiens]

Stupid RS, their manual for the Metrix is in the original French!   

[Vince]

It's hard to blame you, as it is a very fine example.  Old photo, lab has been rearranged twice since then. 

Thanks Oculus, you know how to talk to me ! 

Yeah yours looks like brand new cosmetically compared to mine, I can tell even though the pic is very dark. No rusty screws, clean panel at the bottom, no crusty rusty retaining nuts and washer for the toggle switches, no wrong knob anywhere, no missing stud on the CRT bezel... CRT is perfectly oriented, bottom curve lines up perfectly with the graticule. Graph is perfectly stable, and zero weirdness in the traces, just clean sharp curves and nothing else.

It's definitely a winner... let's see if I can make mine compete with yours, given a couple years worth of restoration... 

[Zucca]

BTW, pfSense and Charter Modem are talking.
Now for the first time in my life I have to deal with IPv6 and pfSense. Oh joy.

Masochist Karma.

Now we are talking....

Next step, configure local DNS server for IPV6. ohhh joy...

[mnementh]

So... does this mean my smart bread machine can now talk to your smart toaster...? 

mnem
"...ohhhh, that's right baby... hold my solenoid right there... you know how I like that..."

[cyclin_al]

Uh oh, I better go hide in the corner.  You probably will not like me. 

I used to be able to speak decent English. 

I do like you ! 

I was talking about French people, not people in French speaking countries. The latter kind speak a much better French than French people, because the French went downhill only recently, like 15 years ago when mobile phones/text messages, and cheap broadband internet became wide spread and forums became plentiful.

French speaking countries are geographically and culturally independent from France. Their "version" of the French language is therefore not suffering from the problems we are having here. All theses countries are like little safes / museums that protect the language. May they continue to do so for a long time.
In particular all the French speaking countries in Africa speak excellent French, even the lowest layers of the population. They run circles around 98% of French people. Shame on us.

It may not be much better here, but likely different.
"grand-maman" has become "G-Mom" (pronounced Gee-Momm).

The few people I know from African French speaking countries have a very clear pronunciation and a cadence that is not overly fast.  Yes, I can understand them well.
As a bonus, these are the people who have the patience to help me practice.  I did not speak any French 15 years ago...
They do sound very formal compared to the local French.

I dread to think that foreigners come to France thinking they will learn French properly, makes me shiver. Whatever French tehy acquire and bring back to their home land, is bound to be junk. It's sad but if someone said to me "I want to live in France to learn the language !! "I would tell him he is a fool and he better go live in Quebec or some ex African colony. Basically anywhere but France ! Sad but true.

That is only because you are discussing language, not culture.  People do not come here for the culture...
I will stop now before we get too close to the politics on this one.

Internet suck this evening ! Down to a crawl, can't load AVG's pictures of his Metrix , can't load BD' GGTA hipster video, can't load any thing you people posted that not just text.  I Need BD here to come fix the fucking French internet...

Hoping it will be back to normal when I get up tomorrow. 

Sounds like you could fit in here.  Our speed on a good day is enough for those things to barely work, so long as you are patient for the buffering to fill up before the image/video arrives.

[Vince]

It may not be much better here, but likely different.
"grand-maman" has become "G-Mom" (pronounced Gee-Momm).

Oh, I see !  Looks like it's going south even up there in Canada ! All is lost then, mayday mayday !

[tautech]

When might you display the US flag ?

[Zucca]

When might you display the US flag ?

Actually at my US home I have this flag to show off

[Zucca]

So... does this mean my smart bread machine can now talk to your smart toaster...? 

Interesting DNS ipv6 was soo easy.... I love my Resolver!!

Anyway now I have to set up some DHCPv6 Sever/Services....
My /64 IPv6 need to be spliced in pieces.... 

It's a lot of fun I am learning a lot.... at the end of the day IPv6 is not that complicated ..... why those stupid monkey ISP took so long.... brain damaged ISP!!!!!!

And the next big step... DDNS ipv6? Still some homework to do....

[0culus]

It's hard to blame you, as it is a very fine example.  Old photo, lab has been rearranged twice since then. 

Thanks Oculus, you know how to talk to me ! 

Yeah yours looks like brand new cosmetically compared to mine, I can tell even though the pic is very dark. No rusty screws, clean panel at the bottom, no crusty rusty retaining nuts and washer for the toggle switches, no wrong knob anywhere, no missing stud on the CRT bezel... CRT is perfectly oriented, bottom curve lines up perfectly with the graticule. Graph is perfectly stable, and zero weirdness in the traces, just clean sharp curves and nothing else.

It's definitely a winner... let's see if I can make mine compete with yours, given a couple years worth of restoration... 

Mod 122C too...it is also an exceptionally stable instrument. I have a 577D1 as well, and it takes a couple hours before it is fully stable. I also have a second Type 575 with Mod 122C, equally as clean, but it's not so good functionally. I will be getting to it in the repair queue, possibly this winter when it's more fun to have toob gear heating the lab. 

[cyclin_al]

It may not be much better here, but likely different.
"grand-maman" has become "G-Mom" (pronounced Gee-Momm).

Oh, I see !  Looks like it's going south even up there in Canada ! All is lost then, mayday mayday !

As my son would say:  "C'est une mauvaise blague de papa!" 
That is something I picked out of the Valley Gatineau dialect. 

I think you would be quite pleased by Canadian French and adequately satisfied by Quebecois. 
If all goes well, I may get some French training at work this autumn, which would be in Canadian French.

[cyclin_al]

Interesting DNS ipv6 was soo easy.... I love my Resolver!!

Anyway now I have to set up some DHCPv6 Sever/Services....
My /64 IPv6 need to be spliced in pieces.... 

It's a lot of fun I am learning a lot.... at the end of the day IPv6 is not that complicated ..... why those stupid monkey ISP took so long.... brain damaged ISP!!!!!!

And the next big step... DDNS ipv6? Still some homework to do....

Count yourself lucky.  Up in the GWN, things have not got any better since this:
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/test-equipment-anonymous-(tea)-group-therapy-thread/msg3210428/?topicseen#msg3210428

[mansaxel]

In happier news, bd139 will be happy to see that there is life in my surplus store -hp- Harrison power supply. I determined the cap that had been lifted is actually fine, so I resoldered it. Brought it up on a variac supply just in case....but it's fine. Just a case of a mildly wild meter movement, solved by a quick deoxit of the meter mode switch.

And I'm both happy and envious! The voltage knob is not of this world, though. I'm mostly focused on usability and not as much on pristine restoring (for instance my 6206b has been given a clear neon cap instead of the original slightly milky one, but it is the same OEM, just 40 years newer...), so would not mind a decent-looking 3rd party knob, but that "something" is something extra indeed.   

Congratulations on it being basically ok!

[mansaxel]

So... does this mean my smart bread machine can now talk to your smart toaster...? 

Interesting DNS ipv6 was soo easy.... I love my Resolver!!

Anyway now I have to set up some DHCPv6 Sever/Services....
My /64 IPv6 need to be spliced in pieces.... 

It's a lot of fun I am learning a lot.... at the end of the day IPv6 is not that complicated ..... why those stupid monkey ISP took so long.... brain damaged ISP!!!!!!

And the next big step... DDNS ipv6? Still some homework to do....

You can't split a /64 if you want magic. (that is, the SLAAC and RA stuff working.)

Did you get a prefix delegation from the ISP or is it only one /64? It's not unlikely you'll have to tell your router to request a PD. Most ISP's who do PD here give the customer a /56 or so, meaning you have 2⁸ /64 nets to play with.

I've got a /49 from my local tunnel provider, and a /48 from HE.

HE is such a cesspit these days that all geolocation thinks I'm in Russia. Cloudflare gives me "I'm a human" challenges all the time. Must look into moving away from HE, except for OOB access.

[med6753]

Once again I'm wide awake at 0300 hours. I don't get it.  I'll stay up for a while and then sleep more for a few hours.

Anyway, latest on the storm. This was last night's briefing. Scuttlebutt is that by now it's a category 1 hurricane (sustained winds of 74 MPH or more). Currently raining in NYC. Nothing here yet. NYC is not in the direct path like "Sandy" was several years ago where lower Manhattan flooded. So I doubt the ocean storm surge from this storm will cause any issues. We'll see. Long Island is in direct path to get hit.

https://www.weather.gov/media/aly/AutoBriefing/ALYBriefing.pdf

Result of the 10MHz reference and the 7260A being on for almost 24 hours. Cut the delta from about 15Hz to 8Hz. I don't know the calibration history of the 7260A can't really draw solid conclusions but for me it's perfectly adequate. And there was no need to leave the 7904 powered up and in that loop so I made a direct connection reference to counter and shut it down. 



And yes, later today back on the Type 547. Already have the bench cleared off and the covers pulled.

Edit.....confirmed. The storm is now a category 1 hurricane. 

[tautech]

Result of the 10MHz reference and the 7260A being on for almost 24 hours. Cut the delta from about 15Hz to 8Hz. I don't know the calibration history of the 7260A can't really draw solid conclusions but for me it's perfectly adequate. And there was no need to leave the 7904 powered up and in that loop so I made a direct connection reference to counter and shut it down. 

What is it with you Yanks having toggle switches that flick up for ON ? 

[med6753]

What is it with you Yanks having toggle switches that flick up for ON ? 

I guess it's because we like to aggravate the rest of the world just like we thumb our noses at the metric system. 

Seriously, it seems normal and natural. All my factory built equipment is like that and our wall switches are the same.

[ch_scr]

What is it with you Yanks having toggle switches that flick up for ON ? 

I guess it's because we like to aggravate the rest of the world just like we thumb our noses at the metric system. 

Seriously, it seems normal and natural. All my factory built equipment is like that and our wall switches are the same.

Ahh yes, perfect normality...

[tautech]

What is it with you Yanks having toggle switches that flick up for ON ? 

I guess it's because we like to aggravate the rest of the world just like we thumb our noses at the metric system. 

Seriously, it seems normal and natural. All my factory built equipment is like that and our wall switches are the same.

Right. 
Just as normal and natural as using black for phase ? 

[bd139]

China are the only country that gets their colours correct in that space.

Roughly: neutral is black or blue. Anything else apart from stripey green is phase.

[ch_scr]

China are the only country that gets their colours correct in that space.

Roughly: neutral is black or blue. Anything else apart from stripey green is phase.

I take non-blue neutral wiring as a personal insult and find even promoting that idea highly irritating!

[Saskia]

Seems that some of you missed an interesting discord session

[ch_scr]

Seems that some of you missed an interesting discord session

I fell asleep early 

[med6753]

Seems that some of you missed an interesting discord session

Yes, you were feeling quite "frisky" weren't you?