What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!

[GreyWoolfe]

Went to the local surplus store and got 1 each, Tek P6131 and P6137 probes for the princely sum of $10 each.  They both compensate just fine and read signals.  Happy purchase.

[JustSquareEnough]

first logic analyzer...

[TheSteve]

My first bit of triax kit - a pair of Keithley T adapters(the price was right). New old stock in the package from 2005.

[alm]

Went to the local surplus store and got 1 each, Tek P6131 and P6137 probes for the princely sum of $10 each.  They both compensate just fine and read signals.  Happy purchase.

These are nice, compact probes. Unscrewing the plastic cover can be useful for low inductance connections with minimal loop area. You can see them being used in some Mike's electric stuff and Bob Pease videos.

first logic analyzer...

Is the software still being developed? How is mainline Sigrok support coming along?

My first bit of triax kit - a pair of Keithley T adapters(the price was right). New old stock in the package from 2005.

Think before you connect two (or three) triax connectors together. Connecting two driven guards together will not work well. Triax connections are not as standardized and plug and play as BNC.

[Falkra]

Not a purchase, but I ran off on a rescue mission last night to save an old broken synthesiser...

Going to get it from the back of the station wagon in the cold light of morning, I wonder if I've made a terrible mistake. This thing is ridiculously huge. Quite possibly occupies as much volume as every other keyboard I own, combined.

And yes, that's an 88 note full size hammer action keyboard looking lost inside the outline of this complete monster.

This deserves a before/after picture ! Nice catch and good memories. 

[VK5RC]

Re triax, a few months ago I made a 2 lug to 3 lug triax adapter cable, with the price of the parts and they are very fiddly; I was pretty nervous. I was amazed at the high impedance I managed to get using a Keithley 617. Beginners luck!

[borjam]

Analog Devices ADALM-PLUTO

[tszaboo]

Merryfair Wau office chair

Yes, it is comfy, and customize-able. And good for tall people unlike the HJH Ergohuman.

[julianhigginson]

Analog Devices ADALM-PLUTO

Wow! that looks like a lot of bang for buck (especially if all the design files and source is available and in a useful format so you can really get in there and use the zynq to do things) looks to be far cheaper than the zedboard or picozed plus FMC card route.

Let us know how it goes.

the website looks like they planned to offer a fair bit of learning material based on this HW, too... but not so much of that is up?

[cdev]

Could you share a bit more info? It looks very adjustable. The more adjustable the better. How much did it cost you?


Quote from: NANDBlog on Today at 06:01:49

Merryfair Wau office chair
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Yes, it is comfy, and customize-able. And good for tall people unlike the HJH Ergohuman.

[tszaboo]

Could you share a bit more info? It looks very adjustable. The more adjustable the better. How much did it cost you?

It was 500 EUR in a local store. So about half of a steelcase or a Herman miller. I sit between work and home sometimes 16 hours a day in chairs, so it is a good investment. I still need to use my back in 20 years.
http://www.merryfair.com/product/wau/
This is a link for the manufacturer's page for all the adjust options.
It's not an A brand, I know. Made in Malaysia.

[sunspots]

Well I can't claim it for today because I can't complete the purchase until I get the promo code but I can't get the promo code until I make some legit posts

Anyways:

Some rubber tips for my vacuum on my hakko hot air rework station

4 new tips for my hakko desoldering iron, 1.6 .8 .6 2.3

cleaning brushes for said tips

30 New tips for my hakko 907. Yes I'm going overboard but I just couldn't stop adding those damn T18's to my cart. Every chisel tip, most of the CF tips, a few normal bezel tips, a knife tip, some very pointy tips, plus some other misc tips.

Dual solder holder

Tip cleaner

Some liquid flux.

Hope I can order them soon because I'm excited to use them.. especially the rubber bits for my HAR vacuum.

[GreyWoolfe]

Well I can't claim it for today because I can't complete the purchase until I get the promo code but I can't get the promo code until I make some legit posts

Anyways:

Some rubber tips for my vacuum on my hakko hot air rework station

4 new tips for my hakko desoldering iron, 1.6 .8 .6 2.3

cleaning brushes for said tips

30 New tips for my hakko 907. Yes I'm going overboard but I just couldn't stop adding those damn T18's to my cart. Every chisel tip, most of the CF tips, a few normal bezel tips, a knife tip, some very pointy tips, plus some other misc tips.

Dual solder holder

Tip cleaner

Some liquid flux.

Hope I can order them soon because I'm excited to use them.. especially the rubber bits for my HAR vacuum.

OK, step away from the tip selection!!!  You don't need every chisel tip!  .8, 1.6, 2.4 and 3.2 mm will cover everything you need.  The straight pointy tips, lose them.  The curved pointy tips are good for smd. 

[cdev]

Thank you for this! Very interesting ...



Quote from: Tony_G on 2017-08-21, 11:39:55

As part of my auction score, I got a 8405A Vector Voltmeter - This is a classic old piece of kit that was the progenitor of the modern Vector Network Analyzer.

You can read about it in the

May 1966 HP Journal.

I did a video of a partial repair and use fo the unit as well



While you're there check out the other videos and let me know what you like or what I got wrong.

TonyG

[TheSteve]

New VFD for my Keithley 2400. It is also sporting the latest in "protection-wear" - everything looks better with a nice boot.

[TiN]

Dunno, it's now uglified 2400 . Tryting to blendin' in all that HPAK stuff around?
Thou shall not pass!

[TheSteve]

Dunno, it's now uglified 2400 . Tryting to blendin' in all that HPAK stuff around?
Thou shall not pass!

Hah, just the opposite, this Keithley series needs all the help it can get hiding the ugly.

[neo]

What do you call that banana plug thing? I am curious because i want to know how to look it up.

[TheSteve]

What do you call that banana plug thing? I am curious because i want to know how to look it up.

Look for a "dual banana plug".

[neo]

What do you call that banana plug thing? I am curious because i want to know how to look it up.

Look for a "dual banana plug".

I actually had tried that, i just needed to thumb through the results finer to see it. While on the subject of connectors one useful adapter i have found is BNC to banana which enables me to use my scope probe on my multimeter, which is surprisingly handy.

[firewalker]

Analog System Lab Kit Pro. Didn't exactly bought it. It is from the TI summer giveaway.



Alexander.

[Cubdriver]

What do you call that banana plug thing? I am curious because i want to know how to look it up.

Look for a "dual banana plug".

I actually had tried that, i just needed to thumb through the results finer to see it. While on the subject of connectors one useful adapter i have found is BNC to banana which enables me to use my scope probe on my multimeter, which is surprisingly handy.

Pomona makes good ones.  I have several of each of the BNC jack to banana plugs and the banana/binding post to BNC plug.  I also have one or two dual to lead assemblies, but only because they came with various evilBay purchases - those I haven't been that inclined to use.

The BNC/banana adapters see a lot of use, however.

-Pat

[Urs42]

A nice soldering station for Hakko compatible soldering irons.

It has some issues

• Too much hot snot
• The aluminium case isn't connected to earh
• By default the language is set to Chinese, but i was able to change that.

I will fix the grounding issue soon. The four pin connector is a TTL serial port, no idea what i can do with that, could be for ISP?!
I guess this thing is based on some Open Hardware project. 

[little_grey]

looks nice and compact, what did you pay for it?
and more importantly, is it worth it?

[borjam]

Wow! that looks like a lot of bang for buck (especially if all the design files and source is available and in a useful format so you can really get in there and use the zynq to do things) looks to be far cheaper than the zedboard or picozed plus FMC card route.

Let us know how it goes.

the website looks like they planned to offer a fair bit of learning material based on this HW, too... but not so much of that is up?

For now it's a bit crazy, so much immature stuff from the software point of view. Anyway I haven't had much time since it arrived yesterday, hoping to get to play with it this weekend.

As for the purpose, well, seems like a good way to get acquainted with GNU Radio and SDR beyond being a user. And if I had time I'd like to play with the FPGA as well, but, being realistic, it won't happen.

Turns out that it's much more than they said at the beginning. Someone has found out that you can enable two processor cores and you can actually extend the tuning range.