Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread

[Specmaster]

I used to hate it when work interfered with TEA. Key words "used to". Haven't had that issue in nearly 3 years now.

I know, I'm rubbing it in.   

Yeah .... you sure are.   

Perhaps. But you don't know how many times I've seen this: Type A executive retires and within a year is dead because he had no hobby outside work other than swinging a stupid golf club.       

Med you are spot on here, I've seen that happen so many times with so of my work colleagues, all said that they were looking forward to retiring, and then they would be able to put their feet up and relax. They did just that and many didn't make it to a second year of retirement, I'm on my 5th and not in any hurry to shuffle off this earth, enjoying my hobbies to much for that. 

[mansaxel]

On the making of new things side, I must say I'm positively impressed by KiCAD. In 5.1, at least I find it quite intuitive and easy-flowing to make a circuit, assign metadata (footprints, component types), and move to PCB drafting. The proof is in the pudding, of course, and when the Gerbers return from the Middle Kingdom as finished product, that's when one knows.

This time, I'm extensively making use of ground pours and vias to make a circuit better; or so I hope. PCB pic forthcoming.

[Andrew_Debbie]

I used to hate it when work interfered with TEA. Key words "used to". Haven't had that issue in nearly 3 years now.

I know, I'm rubbing it in.   

At least I have an interesting job.

About to be paid to listen to a Presentation titled   " Right handed Language asymmetry in right handers?"

[mansaxel]

TE update: The required 3R12 battery is in my inventory now, so the Gossen Geohm will see testing tonight, if and only if I get the bloody dishwasher installed first. And that has to arrive, for starters.

[med6753]

I used to hate it when work interfered with TEA. Key words "used to". Haven't had that issue in nearly 3 years now.

I know, I'm rubbing it in.   

At least I have an interesting job.

About to be paid to listen to a Presentation titled   " Right handed Language asymmetry in right handers?"

To this southpaw that sounds real interesting.  NOT!

[Andrew_Debbie]

I used to hate it when work interfered with TEA. Key words "used to". Haven't had that issue in nearly 3 years now.

I know, I'm rubbing it in.   

At least I have an interesting job.

About to be paid to listen to a Presentation titled   " Right handed Language asymmetry in right handers?"

To this southpaw that sounds real interesting.  NOT!

You'd be surprised.    This talk is about the  rare right handers with  "left hand" brain organisation.   About 5% of right handers are right hemisphere dominate for language.

cf.  70% of left handers are right hemisphere dominant for language.

[med6753]

I used to hate it when work interfered with TEA. Key words "used to". Haven't had that issue in nearly 3 years now.

I know, I'm rubbing it in.   

At least I have an interesting job.

About to be paid to listen to a Presentation titled   " Right handed Language asymmetry in right handers?"

To this southpaw that sounds real interesting.  NOT!

You'd be surprised.    This talk is about the  rare right handers with  "left hand" brain organisation.   About 5% of right handers are right hemisphere dominate for language.

cf.  70% of left handers are right hemisphere dominant for language.

Well, my brain is scrambled. I'm not exclusively a southpaw. Two dominant things I do exclusively left handed: Write (pen/pencil) and eat (fork). I used to use a mouse exclusively left until I started to develop carpal tunnel and switched to right. I throw right handed. If I attempted left it would be like a girl throws.  I solder right handed. I can use a hammer in either hand.

[Andrew_Debbie]

Well, my brain is scrambled. I'm not exclusively a southpaw. Two dominant things I do exclusively left handed: Write (pen/pencil) and eat (fork). I used to use a mouse exclusively left until I started to develop carpal tunnel and switched to right. I throw right handed. If I attempted left it would be like a girl throws.  I solder right handed. I can use a hammer in either hand.

This  is one of the standard tests that gives a handedness rating.

https://rhd.talkbank.org/protocol/handedness.pdf


Laterality Quotient = (R-L)/(R+L) X 100

Here, R & L refer to the total number of "+" marked on the right and left side respectively.

The Laterality Quotient value is used to interpret handedness as given below:

Left-handedness = Less than -40
Ambidexterity = Between -40 and +40
Right-handedness = More than +40

[tggzzz]

Testing the address portion of the PROM programmer.  ( This is for the faulty 74188 PROM in my Dana 5100 DMM)
Incomplete and untested.   I'm off to work now.  More later  . . . .

Suggest decoupling caps with short leads to the power pins. Grid the Vcc and 0V, to minimise lead length / inductance / voltage spikes.

[Ice-Tea]

I used to hate it when work interfered with TEA. Key words "used to". Haven't had that issue in nearly 3 years now.

I know, I'm rubbing it in.   

 

[Andrew_Debbie]

Testing the address portion of the PROM programmer.  ( This is for the faulty 74188 PROM in my Dana 5100 DMM)
Incomplete and untested.   I'm off to work now.  More later  . . . .

Suggest decoupling caps with short leads to the power pins. Grid the Vcc and 0V, to minimise lead length / inductance / voltage spikes.

Decoupling caps are on the Power Supply sheet.  This is unfinished but reflects the changes needed for the NS PROM instead of the TI one.    Many of the values are placeholders and I may add more decoupling caps. The 22uF caps are tantalum  but also subject to change. 

[mnementh]

I used to hate it when work interfered with TEA. Key words "used to". Haven't had that issue in nearly 3 years now.

I know, I'm rubbing it in.   

At least I have an interesting job.

About to be paid to listen to a Presentation titled   " Right handed Language asymmetry in right handers?"

To this southpaw that sounds real interesting.  NOT!

You'd be surprised.    This talk is about the  rare right handers with  "left hand" brain organisation.   About 5% of right handers are right hemisphere dominate for language.

cf.  70% of left handers are right hemisphere dominant for language.

FWIW, at least one dwagon in the room has a clue what this presentation was on about; I spent many years being poked and prodded and Rorschach-ed to oblivion as the school clinicians found my particular combination of ADD and social ineptitude fascinating, particularly as even with all that going on, I was a A-B student.

Finally they came to the same contusion I kept telling them; I was bored sheepless. It required being away from school working on the farm for two years, then challenge-testing out such that I skipped a grade when I came back, that they finally believed me when I said I was tired of being taught the same exact curriculum 3 times over the course of 2 or 3 years. 

Well, that and mom moving us to a yuppie neighborhood where the school district actually had some funding for more than the usual "state-mandated daycare" services. 

How things have changed; now all I really want is a nice, quiet, normal life...

mnem
*raises a paw* "Ummm, Missus Cruh-bopple, may I please be excused to go dash my brains out against a freeway barrier now...?"

[mansaxel]

https://rhd.talkbank.org/protocol/handedness.pdf

Laterality Quotient = (R-L)/(R+L) X 100

Here, R & L refer to the total number of "+" marked on the right and left side respectively.

The Laterality Quotient value is used to interpret handedness as given below:

Left-handedness = Less than -40
Ambidexterity = Between -40 and +40
Right-handedness = More than +40

$ dc
5k
2             
16-
16
2
+
/
100*p
-77.77700


About as far left as is not insane 

Edit: I first calculated a positive value; then realised that I, as one does, I thought, had put L before R. That's how entrenched I am.

[Robert763]

-100 for me. at least 3 ++ Total leftie.
I've been quiet here this week. Been at MIRA. No I can't say why 

[Robert763]

The Delta 1540D PSU arrived.
Switched it from program to manual but still no lights. Not had a chance to investigate further. Maybe at the weekend if the weather precludes opening the garages, which seems likely.

[BU508A]

-100 for me. at least 3 ++ Total leftie.
I've been quiet here this week. Been at MIRA. No I can't say why 

Acronym   Definition
MIRA   Mile Radius
MIRA   Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition
MIRA   Motor Industry Research Association
MIRA   Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia
MIRA   Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy
MIRA   Media Image Resource Alliance
MIRA   Minimally Invasive Robotic Association
MIRA   Margin Infused Relaxed Algorithm (computer science)
MIRA   Minimum Interference Routing Algorithm
MIRA   Maldives Inland Revenue Authority (est. 2010)
MIRA   Moody’s Interfax Rating Agency
MIRA   Munich Re Internet Risk Assessor
MIRA   Medium Wave Infrared Array
MIRA   Market Intelligence Research Associates
MIRA   Monolithic Infrared Array
MIRA   Monthly Index of Russian Accessions (Library of Congress)
MIRA   Multifunctional Inertial Reference Assembly (USAF)
MIRA   MicroVAX Integration of Reliable Architecture
MIRA   Medical Instrument Research Associates

 

https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/MIRA

[Vince]

-100 for me. at least 3 ++ Total leftie.

200% leftie here, no need to take the test.
Well, I admit shifting gears with the right hand, because not much choice (unless I visit the UK and rent a car locally of course....)

I've been quiet here this week. Been at MIRA. No I can't say why 

I am glad you made it alive back to your home, it's the most important !
I mean MIRA sounds like a rather sketchy company, the homepage of their website says
https://mira-aviation.com/en/

" This is your MIRAcle flight ".

Does that mean if you take one of their planes, it takes a miracle to get to your destination alive ?
That does not sound very selling to me !  They must have been short on budget when they hired their Marketing guy !

[Andrew_Debbie]

-100 for me. at least 3 ++ Total leftie.
I've been quiet here this week. Been at MIRA. No I can't say why 

-44 for me.

I am noticing a trend here.




 

[Specmaster]

I used to hate it when work interfered with TEA. Key words "used to". Haven't had that issue in nearly 3 years now.

I know, I'm rubbing it in.   

 

Never mind, your turn will come 

[mansaxel]

The Gossen Geohm has been batterized. It works, but probably not 100% to specification. It reads consistently 5% low, through the entire range of my standard resistors, 1, 10, 100, 1000 Ω.

Since we're talking about standards, and there was a request, I'll put a few pics here and a few in a follow-up. First, a group photo.

Then some details. The RFT ones are all similar. The odd one out is 100Ω, an Austrian Norma, and some 8 years younger.

[mansaxel]

... and a few in a follow-up.

Box, measurement protocol and warranty. All matching serial to the resistor in question.

[Zucca]

GEILOMAT

[Cerebus]

-100 for me. at least 3 ++ Total leftie.
I've been quiet here this week. Been at MIRA. No I can't say why 

Acronym   Definition
MIRA   Mile Radius
MIRA   Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition
MIRA   Motor Industry Research Association
MIRA   Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia
MIRA   Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy
MIRA   Media Image Resource Alliance
MIRA   Minimally Invasive Robotic Association
MIRA   Margin Infused Relaxed Algorithm (computer science)
MIRA   Minimum Interference Routing Algorithm
MIRA   Maldives Inland Revenue Authority (est. 2010)
MIRA   Moody’s Interfax Rating Agency
MIRA   Munich Re Internet Risk Assessor
MIRA   Medium Wave Infrared Array
MIRA   Market Intelligence Research Associates
MIRA   Monolithic Infrared Array
MIRA   Monthly Index of Russian Accessions (Library of Congress)
MIRA   Multifunctional Inertial Reference Assembly (USAF)
MIRA   MicroVAX Integration of Reliable Architecture
MIRA   Medical Instrument Research Associates

 

https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/MIRA

Most likely the 'crashing things' one, given Robert's prior involvement with a project not a million miles removed from the JATO assisted Ferret.

[Cerebus]

-100 for me. at least 3 ++ Total leftie.
I've been quiet here this week. Been at MIRA. No I can't say why 

-44 for me.

I am noticing a trend here.

Yeah, there's a bunch of weirdos in here. We didn't need a survey to tell us that! 

[mnementh]

-100 for me. at least 3 ++ Total leftie.
I've been quiet here this week. Been at MIRA. No I can't say why 

-44 for me.

I am noticing a trend here.

Yeah, there's a bunch of weirdos in here. We didn't need a survey to tell us that! 

I can't be arsed to print this out or open it on the laptop whech couldn't be arsed to charge overnight, even tho it was plugged in. Also, math defective, so fuck dat noise.

As you so very correctly pointed out; I don't need more tests to know I'm fucking weird. 

mnem
This is where I usually put some pithy quip.