Author Topic: What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase! (Read 3087169 times)

tautech · « **Reply #6625 on:** June 17, 2018, 07:51:59 am »

Quote from: beanflying on June 16, 2018, 12:38:08 pm

Quote from: tautech on June 16, 2018, 12:22:40 am
New gummies/wellies a couple of days back at our NZ National Ag field days.
https://fieldays.co.nz/

A member or two that visit from time to time will know why.........man it's wet and muddy here.

No No I won't make Sheep, Velcro glove and Gumboot NZ jokes

I thought you Aussies invented Velcro gloves and I've never known why.

DC1MC · « **Reply #6626 on:** June 19, 2018, 06:30:04 am »

Two expensive Fischer connectors for my Solartron 7071

, looking nice but definitely not "Fischer price" (thanks Andreas).
Now waiting the WE to start fiddling with them.

Cheers,
DC1MC

beanflying · « **Reply #6627 on:** June 19, 2018, 06:49:32 am »

Quote from: tautech on June 17, 2018, 07:51:59 am

I thought you Aussies invented Velcro gloves and I've never known why.

We invented the Ugg Boot - wearing mine now

VK5RC · « **Reply #6628 on:** June 19, 2018, 11:51:11 am »

A Tytera DM-380 DMR handheld transceiver for some mucking around with DMR (Digital Mobile Radio) - Amateur radio stuff - have a SharkRF openSpot UHF to ethernet 'dongle', with a bit of luck (and a Wifi - ethernet gizmo) - should be able to get it to get my Tyt MD380 to link "UHF-Ethernet- WiFI - 4G - Internet" to other Amateur radio DMR 'reflectors'. There are several hundred I believe - ONCE I get it all lined up.

Have managed so far to get the HH transceiver to talk to my computer - you need to do this to start to program some of the 1000 channels.
Some good resources on HamRadioWorkbench podcast and Adafruit to name a few - Thanks.

rdl · « **Reply #6629 on:** June 19, 2018, 04:22:23 pm »

The Minimus 7 speakers just weren't doing the job with the NAD amp. They have their place, but as main speakers the bass is lacking. After a little looking around I ran across these Dayton Audio B652 speakers. I ordered a pair and they arrived this morning. I wasn't expecting too much, but all things considered, they are pretty impressive. I can honestly say they are the best $30 pair of speakers I've ever heard. I'd be happy at 4 times the price.

https://www.parts-express.com/dayton-audio-b652-6-1-2-2-way-bookshelf-speaker-pair--300-652

(sorry for the blurry photo)

Specmaster · « **Reply #6630 on:** June 19, 2018, 04:27:31 pm »

Quote from: rdl on June 19, 2018, 04:22:23 pm

The Minimus 7 speakers just weren't doing the job with the NAD amp. They have their place, but as main speakers the bass is lacking. After a little looking around I ran across these Dayton Audio B652 speakers. I ordered a pair and they arrived this morning. I wasn't expecting too much, but all things considered, they are pretty impressive. I can honestly say they are the best $30 pair of speakers I've ever heard. I'd be happy at 4 times the price.

https://www.parts-express.com/dayton-audio-b652-6-1-2-2-way-bookshelf-speaker-pair--300-652

(sorry for the blurry photo)

At 70Hz, thats still not much in the way of bass is it, so what was you using before for these to be sounding so much better?

rdl · « **Reply #6631 on:** June 19, 2018, 04:39:42 pm »

Quote from: Specmaster on June 19, 2018, 04:27:31 pm

At 70Hz, thats still not much in the way of bass is it, so what was you using before for these to be sounding so much better?

Minimus 7 speakers from Radio Shack. The difference comes mostly from 6.5 inch vs. 4 inch "woofers". Believe me, there's a world of difference. If 70Hz is the spec on the Dayton speakers, then they are definitely not overstating the speakers performance.

Specmaster · « **Reply #6632 on:** June 19, 2018, 04:44:43 pm »

Quote from: rdl on June 19, 2018, 04:39:42 pm

Quote from: Specmaster on June 19, 2018, 04:27:31 pm
At 70Hz, thats still not much in the way of bass is it, so what was you using before for these to be sounding so much better?

Minimus 7 speakers from Radio Shack. The difference comes mostly from 6.5 inch vs. 4 inch "woofers". Believe me, there's a world of difference. If 70Hz is the spec on the Dayton speakers, then they are definitely not overstating the speakers performance.

Yes, that increase in driver size would make it sound much better, spec and manual is attached.

NottheDan · « **Reply #6633 on:** June 19, 2018, 09:04:50 pm »

Got a Hameg 203-6 in a nice wooden crate, including manual. It shows a single nice and bright trace but hasn't yet reacted to any input.

GreyWoolfe · « **Reply #6634 on:** June 19, 2018, 09:52:21 pm »

Quote from: rdl on June 19, 2018, 04:22:23 pm

The Minimus 7 speakers just weren't doing the job with the NAD amp. They have their place, but as main speakers the bass is lacking. After a little looking around I ran across these Dayton Audio B652 speakers. I ordered a pair and they arrived this morning. I wasn't expecting too much, but all things considered, they are pretty impressive. I can honestly say they are the best $30 pair of speakers I've ever heard. I'd be happy at 4 times the price.

https://www.parts-express.com/dayton-audio-b652-6-1-2-2-way-bookshelf-speaker-pair--300-652

(sorry for the blurry photo)

I have a set of the Minimus 7's for over 20 years and love them. This, however, is certainly tempting enough just for the price itself. Hard to believe that they are $30 USD for a pair with $7 shipping.

nanofrog · « **Reply #6635 on:** June 20, 2018, 07:15:15 am »

Quote from: rdl on June 19, 2018, 04:22:23 pm

The Minimus 7 speakers just weren't doing the job with the NAD amp. They have their place, but as main speakers the bass is lacking. After a little looking around I ran across these Dayton Audio B652 speakers. I ordered a pair and they arrived this morning. I wasn't expecting too much, but all things considered, they are pretty impressive. I can honestly say they are the best $30 pair of speakers I've ever heard. I'd be happy at 4 times the price.

https://www.parts-express.com/dayton-audio-b652-6-1-2-2-way-bookshelf-speaker-pair--300-652

I'm in the market for a pair of bookshelf speakers as well, so a big thank you for this.

cheeseit · « **Reply #6636 on:** June 20, 2018, 11:33:44 am »

A cheap used Ersa RDS-80 without stand. Haven't really used it yet but it seems to have a bit higher heat capacity than my trusty old Weller WSD-80. I dislike the much stiffer cord on the RDS-80 though and will replace it.

TiN · « **Reply #6637 on:** June 20, 2018, 11:39:15 am »

I guess I bought today second dead 720A..

gamalot · « **Reply #6638 on:** June 20, 2018, 12:00:59 pm »

Agilent E3615A, my eleventh benchtop power supply.

bitseeker · « **Reply #6639 on:** June 20, 2018, 05:11:23 pm »

Nice one. Looks like new. Power supplies seem to find their way to my bench, as well. I haven't yet figured out why that is.

Specmaster · « **Reply #6640 on:** June 20, 2018, 05:27:42 pm »

For me its oscilloscopes and meters that seem to seek me out.

bitseeker · « **Reply #6641 on:** June 20, 2018, 05:37:12 pm »

Yeah, meters for me as well.

bob225 · « **Reply #6642 on:** June 20, 2018, 05:39:11 pm »

Yesterday's delivery was some Di-Sodium Peroxodisulphate Hexahydrate

Just waiting for some 1.0 and 1.3mm drills then I can finally get on with this project

Terry01 · « **Reply #6643 on:** June 20, 2018, 06:39:47 pm »

Quote from: gamalot on June 20, 2018, 12:00:59 pm

Agilent E3615A, my eleventh benchtop power supply.

LOL after 11 you know it wasn't by accident!

MadTux · « **Reply #6644 on:** June 20, 2018, 06:57:45 pm »

Quote from: gamalot on June 20, 2018, 12:00:59 pm

Agilent E3615A, my eleventh benchtop power supply.

That's some serious TEA

I probably have a similar ammount of E361xAs, as you can never have enough DMMs, PSUs and oscilloscopes (and to a lesser degree all other test gear

). These E361xAs are great little PSUs and I quite often had situations where I needed like -15V, -5V, +5V, +15V, +30V and +150V to test some gear, so I used like 8 E361xAs to power it, (+150V from 3x E3617A in series)

blackbird · « **Reply #6645 on:** June 20, 2018, 09:32:11 pm »

An Analog Devices ADALM-PLUTO.

Ordered via <:3)~~~~ + R, shipment took only two days. from Dallas USA to The Netherlands.

Time to play with my first Zynq.

Specmaster · « **Reply #6646 on:** June 20, 2018, 09:39:41 pm »

Quote from: bitseeker on June 20, 2018, 05:37:12 pm

Yeah, meters for me as well.

Yeah I know just what you mean, I have them as near to prefect as I can get them and right now its annoy the hell out of me because the VFD on my 8840A needs replacing because it getting dim and I want/need the AC module for it, I'd even give up the GPIB for it as I don't use or need the interface it kinda bugs me that when using the newest bench meter in my collection, that I have use another meter if I need to measure AC.

beanflying · « **Reply #6647 on:** June 21, 2018, 03:12:47 am »

So apparently I didn't order two felting needles with my fine TS100 C1 tip

Maybe time for a new hobby because of the freebies ......

tautech · « **Reply #6648 on:** June 21, 2018, 03:35:03 am »

Some matte silver vinyl stickers......should've done so years ago.

aargee · « **Reply #6649 on:** June 21, 2018, 04:03:21 am »

Damn... you should have put "Warranty void if removed" on it...


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