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Who buys the ultra-expensive test equipment, and what's it used for?
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Fried Chicken:
For example, you could buy a house, or you could by this used R&S wideband receiver, and if you look at the seller's other listing's, you've got all sorts of options ranging from a nice used motorcycle, to a nice new luxury car, to a house.

Who is buying this?!  Where is it used?  What industries need this sort of test equipment and why?  I mean these questions earnestly...  I'm no stranger to hundred-thousand dollar lasers (for two-photon microscopy, and other imaging applications) along with similarly expensive equipment.

But what's driving the development of this new ever-more capable, ever more expensive equipment?  It seems like the test equipment industry is alive and well as it's ever been over the past 50 years.  I wouldn't even know what to do with a $400k wideband receiver.  Hook probes up to it?
coppercone2:
development of advanced electronics product and quality assurance on advanced electronics products.

If you think that is bad look at fiber optics related equipment LOL

Look at the pictures in the sales brochures to see who is using it. Might be a F22 raptor, a satellite uplink or something on a humvee.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6G

it will answer the eternal question, that is, will that smart watch prevent the ringer from working? and can we sell it in the USA and Europe without paying the Chinese guys for a redesign?
coppercone2:
they usually live in buildings that look like this with some crappy modern art (unmaintained) at the door
Fungus:
Anything is cheap/disposable if you're using it to develop something that's even more expensive.

eg. I once bought a $50,000 SGI workstation with my own money because I had a $60,000 job opportunity.

Never used it much after that and eventually gave it away to a local kid... those things went obsolete fast.

(ah, the old days...)
Smokey:
The EMC testing lab I've been using has an obscene amount of gear like that.  Gotta spend money to make money... or something like that...
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