Whats your Work-Bench/lab look like? Post some pictures of your Lab.

[linux-works]

perhaps

I admit I overbought.  a little...   lol!

lately, I'm getting a bit more focused on remote control of gear, so I bought this psu:



(and also that funct. gen; also SCPI and rs232 remote controllable).  no, the heath nixie is not

I was able to find an older shot of my living room lab (heh), back when I was at a previous house:



I ran out of room in the 'dirty room' (soldering, drilling, etc) and so my good gear got moved to the living room area.  no surprise, most of my house looks like that anyway!

[leppie]

Confucius say, "Journey of 10,000 miles begins with first oscilloscope."

I got a Philips PM3209* 40MHz too (goes lower resolution in vertical that the Tek), but no space currently.

I bought it for $40 (with original Philips probes and operator manual!) with the FG for 'free'. Display of the FG is not working correctly. Still analysing why it is not working, but got some ideas. Else it works just dandy.

Nothing to be embarrassed about IMHO. 

Not at all

Getting a proper bench installed on Saturday \o/

Here is the 'before' shot.



This gives you an idea of the space it will be expanded to (850mm x 1800mm bench with cupboards at the bottom with dual 450mm racks on top).

And lots of power supplies.

Got a cheap Atten, and a shit load of wall warts (they count dont they? ;p)

* Pity I cant find a service manual for it

[DavidDLC]

My current setup

I wish I had the same when I started, I just had a multimeter and a solder iron like 32 years ago, and it took me loooooooong way to get my first scope and the rest of the gear.

David.

[leppie]

My current setup

I wish I had the same when I started, I just had a multimeter and a solder iron like 32 years ago, and it took me loooooooong way to get my first scope and the rest of the gear.

David.

If I wait 32 years, I'll be 71!  

Took me till my 4th career choice to understand what I like (software development). Electronics became a passion recently (and I have some cash now), but always been interested.

[con-f-use]

no, the heath nixie is not

Sounds like a challenge to me. Hack it! You know you want it! 

[linux-works]

lol.  it could be possible.

a guy on this forum had started an arduino SCPI parser and I'm somewhat interested in continuing along that path.  a simple command to read the current frequency could be done in a controller and if a copy of the current bcd encoding (7441 style) could be latched, this could actually be doable.

if its worth that effort, THAT I don't know

[nanofrog]

This gives you an idea of the space it will be expanded to (850mm x 1800mm bench with cupboards at the bottom with dual 450mm racks on top).

Quite an upgrade about to happen then. 

Just added a shelving system to mine (entire bench is DIY'ed out of welded steel angle and an old office desktop). Still need to cut a couple of boards, and I"ll be done. And of course clean all the tools to build this thing up first so there's room for gear. 

Hope to post pics of it all finished up in the next couple of weeks. 

[leppie]

Quite an upgrade about to happen then. 

Just added a shelving system to mine (entire bench is DIY'ed out of welded steel angle and an old office desktop). Still need to cut a couple of boards, and I"ll be done. And of course clean all the tools to build this thing up first so there's room for gear. 

Hope to post pics of it all finished up in the next couple of weeks. 

I wanted to go the DIY route, but thought, screw that Seeing how much effort it was to remove the old cupboard, I am glad I did (cost of time and all). Costing around $300. Will post pics after completion.

[nanofrog]

Quite an upgrade about to happen then. 

Just added a shelving system to mine (entire bench is DIY'ed out of welded steel angle and an old office desktop). Still need to cut a couple of boards, and I"ll be done. And of course clean all the tools to build this thing up first so there's room for gear. 

Hope to post pics of it all finished up in the next couple of weeks. 

I wanted to go the DIY route, but thought, screw that Seeing how much effort it was to remove the old cupboard, I am glad I did (cost of time and all). Costing around $300. Will post pics after completion.

Buying ready-made in my case would have run $1k USD or more, so that wasn't really an option.  No problems with used, but couldn't locate one that was close enough to get it at a reasonable cost, so DIY was really my only choice.

Once I'm done, I'll be able to properly cost it out, but I think it's going to come in around the $450 mark or so.

[leppie]

Buying ready-made in my case would have run $1k USD or more, so that wasn't really an option.  No problems with used, but couldn't locate one that was close enough to get it at a reasonable cost, so DIY was really my only choice.

Once I'm done, I'll be able to properly cost it out, but I think it's going to come in around the $450 mark or so.

DIY makes sense if you have the tools... I dont even own a drill! Dont think my Dremel will cut it (no pun intended).

Mine is a custom job though. Going wall-to-wall. The cupboards are being made up from the old cupboard.

[mimmus78]

This is some years of ebay "for parts" scores ...

[krivx]

Amiga...?

[nanofrog]

DIY makes sense if you have the tools... I dont even own a drill! Dont think my Dremel will cut it (no pun intended).

Didn't need that many tools though. Just needed a drill, mitre saw, and a few basic hand tools for fasteners. Paid a friend to weld it up for me, as I don't have a welder, let alone know how.

Mine is a custom job though. Going wall-to-wall. The cupboards are being made up from the old cupboard.

Sounds quite nice.  Also like the fact you reused/re-purposed what you already had.   

[UPI]

Our new 6' fume extracting workbench made from a Clean Bench. I had to reverse the air flow, remove the dirty HEPA filter and replace with 2 regular 20x25 AC filters. If we end up doing a bunch more soldering, I will use carbon filters.

It is wired with GFCI plugs, 4ft 4x F5 bulb Home Depot Shop Light, 4 Tripp Lite power strips and has 3 separate power cords to divvy up the load.

Yes it is overkill, but I had the old clean bench from a defunct business venture and it was destined for salvage.

[GreyWoolfe]

  UPI, glad you found a use for it, bad because I didn't get a chance to dumpster dive it .

[nanofrog]

UPI, glad you found a use for it, bad because I didn't get a chance to dumpster dive it .

You guys work/ed together? 

[AmmoJammo]

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1280x1024q90/850/o854.jpg

Amiga...?

Amiga 600 in the middle of the workbench, Amiga 500 motherboard for parts sitting to the left, and a 286 laptop motherboard at the back, which had a leaky battery, an exploded part on the power supply board, and I'm meant to be fixing, but may have dismantled it, and have no idea how it goes back together 

[Vgkid]

@UPI, I spy a Fluke 1952B

[UPI]

@UPI, I spy a Fluke 1952B

Very close - 1953A Counter Timer that is collecting dust at the moment.

[Vgkid]

Looks similar to my broken 1952B.

[GreyWoolfe]

I have a working 1952A that was a $10 USD find from a hamfest.

[Hydrawerk]

At school we have this 50GHz beast.

[linux-works]

50ghz and still using floppies?

wow.  your arm must get tired!

lol

[Hydrawerk]

Well, there is also an USB port for a portable flash disc. It is compatible with my 8GB disc. The Agilent vector analyzer is probably made in 2005. Floppy discs were used in that year.

[linux-works]

it was sort of a joke.  oh well.

OT: I once attended a 'computer music festival' (in the late 70's, iirc) that had some guy with several boxes of 8" floppies, all numbered.  he and this computer were up on the stage and he described how he digitized this classical music piece (not sure if audio or just midi-equiv or raw notes) but it took weeks on his 8080 cpu.  his performance was to stand there and swap 2 floppy bays with 8" floppies, real time, so that his computer would play this rendered classical piece and not have a 'buffer under-run'   I think he had to swap floppies ever 3 or 4 seconds, so it got challenging to keep it going for several minutes at a time and not drop a single floppy or jam one.

(ok, back to your regularly scheduled thread, already in progress..)