Stock Electronic Image FAILS

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Take your pick:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33048347649.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.65df6100eZlsC2&algo_pvid=d0aa436f-4fa6-4343-b619-e3b4fe175cc8&algo_expid=d0aa436f-4fa6-4343-b619-e3b4fe175cc8-54&btsid=c5fe4584-ee83-4d64-8556-a5f210929652&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_7,searchweb201603_52

[Canis Dirus Leidy]

I just Googled "child electronic repair"

You mean "Little girl burns daddy's computer"?

What next, "animal electronic repair" 

it's depends on your definition of term "animal".

[NiHaoMike]

Seen on Facebook:

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Seen on Facebook:
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That picture is actually legitimate.  The meter works by inducing a 1667Hz current into a ground loop with a transmit coil and sensing the current level with a receive coil from which it can calculate the loop resistance.  It has some limitations; in particular it won't work with an isolated ground. The ground loop obviously must be low inductance but that will usually be the case for grounding circuits.

[bsfeechannel]

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That reminds  me of  when, many years ago, the Japanese component manufacturer, Sato, produced a line of spring terminals which came already mounted on a plastic base -----a very convenient idea.

The base was meant to have SATO moulded into it, but the mould designer somehow had a "brain fart", & it read "OTAS".
They still sold them like that---probably the Boss said "They're only for Geeks, who cares?".

Of course, they could have changed the whole company to suit the mistake & renamed it Otas!

A hardware shop near here did something like that.
It was originally called "DEAN's Hardware", but somewhere along the line, the "D" fell off the sign, & people started jokingly calling it "Ean's".
Given lemons, the management made lemonade, renamed the business "Ean's", & even had a cartoon character called "Ean" in their ads.

[majenko]

Just spotted this wonderful one on eBay...

[McBryce]

All depends on the force applied.

McBryce.

[Sal Ammoniac]

Why is it almost always a motherboard that these models are "soldering" on?

[timelessbeing]

Because they are easy to obtain and photogenic (dense with components and look very "high-tech" to the average person)

[Cubdriver]

Why is it almost always a motherboard that these models are "soldering" on?

Because motherboards are horribly unreliable and require near constant "repair" to keep them operational, of course!   

-Pat

[Red Squirrel]

Why is it almost always a motherboard that these models are "soldering" on?

Because motherboards are horribly unreliable and require near constant "repair" to keep them operational, of course!   

-Pat

My computer has been acting a little off lately I think I might be due to solder on more ram and retune the Mhz.

[Cubdriver]

Why is it almost always a motherboard that these models are "soldering" on?

Because motherboards are horribly unreliable and require near constant "repair" to keep them operational, of course!   

-Pat

My computer has been acting a little off lately I think I might be due to solder on more ram and retune the Mhz.

You planning to use a scope probe, a multimeter probe or a wood burner to apply the solder?  Scope probes seem to be popular for that application, but be sure you remove the grabber hook and just use the pointed end, otherwise it might not work...

-Pat

[timelessbeing]

wood burners are for sissies. Go big or go home.



I'm gonna get so many MHz.

[ledtester]

From "The Best Soldering Stations for DIYers" by Bob Vila (yeah - the This Old House guy):

https://www.amazon.com/ospublishing/story/5682f9c4-0c1f-4eef-9369-3e3434ce2847/

[timelessbeing]

oh that photo combines all my favourites! Motherboards, hard drives, and hot grips.

[eti]

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I see what you did there...

I can forgive anyone with the good taste to hire such a naturally beautiful girl as a model. What a lovely lady!

[NiHaoMike]

What about beautiful girls who solder well enough to teach others how to do it?

[timelessbeing]

What about beautiful girls who solder well enough to teach others how to do it?

wrong topic. That tiny conical tip looks like a pain in the ass.

[bsfeechannel]

I can forgive anyone with the good taste to hire such a naturally beautiful girl as a model. What a lovely lady!

People with a good taste and without a clue make the best stock image fails.

[Black Phoenix]

This makes me remember a guy who was showcasing his soldering video on reddit, in the r/mechanicalkeyboards:



My reply to him:

Yes I would definitely learn from someone who holds the iron in the hot part instead of the handle...

Yes I know is just the still image from the video and the video still probably is educational (didn't saw, I already know how to because is part of my living and there is a lot on the internet. The best one is from Dave Jones from EEVBlog) but still it undermines your credibility when doing errors like that in a how to video.

Another thing I never understand in this kind of photos/images/videos why the need to show the DMM in a soldering video. Even if it is used, why it his pointing to the viewer and not to the person who will need it and can use it? It's just adding stuff just for the sake of adding it, it will look more "tech savvy and realistic"...

/Rant mode OFF.

[cdev]

I totally agree.. I bookmarked the video.
but thinking back to when I was 20, "boy" bothered me, a lot, but I would have been fine with "guy". 

What about beautiful girls who solder well enough to teach others how to do it?

[cdev]

My Uni-T UT-61E has the colors reversed. Which I could see as being confusing for beginners. 

It labels the "COM" (black) terminal in reddish ink, and the terminal the red probe is usually plugged into uses white.
 

I mean, I understand the logic of matching the jack color to the lead color as essentially all meters do, but there would be some logic in using additional colors.

See https://www.uni-trend.com/html/product/General_Meters/Digital_Multimeters/UT61_Series/UT61E.html
You can zoom in by clicking on the pictures. Every time I plug the leads in I have a little chuckle about how bad that ink color choice was.

 Is there any possible reason for doing it that way? I know I can't think of one. It would have been better to use all white and maybe use a red plus among the other colors in the symbols used for the multifunction plus lead?

[Jay_Diddy_B]

Hi,

This advertisement just popped up:




You would have thought Panasonic would know about SMD resistors.

Jay_Diddy_B

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