Well.. I have been out of GAS recently. But only because I was saving up for something that I have wanted a for a long time. And I tired, unsuccessfully, to cut my left index finger off. Yeah, that set me back a bit.
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I now have "Franken Finger!!!" Luckily it still works like it is supposed to. But I digress... Anyway, I've been wanting an electronic load. And I got one today! A Transistor Devices DLF-400-100-800. Now I can dump my big ass resistor and light bulb pile! Pictures when it arrives.
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But I'm so stoked about it I just had to post!
Now I have to build some shelves. Because the last square foot of working area on my bench will be gone in a few days.
I was reading previous posts about trying to keep multiple volt meters in agreement. Yeah... well... that sucks. But for some reason, volt meters being off by a few uV never bothered me. What bothers the crap out of me is frequencies not agreeing! Why does one bother me and the other doesn't? I turn things on and the OCXOs all take a different time to warm up, etc... So if one is different than the others, is it warmed up? Or does it have a problem? Etc... Fortunately, there is a cure for frequency standards. I now just use one OCXO (Racal Dana 1992 04E) for a reference and built a nice frequency distribution amplifier and feed every other piece of TE with it. My "standard" might not be correct, but at least everything agrees!! And that somehow makes me happy enough to where my time discrepancy phobia doesn't take over. I did set the Racal Dana's frequency to a GPSDO a friend of mine has. Maybe I'll do that once or twice a year and be happy because I really don't want to get a GPSDO. )Nix that, I really do want one and I'm trying to convince myself otherwise. You guys know how it is...) But is there a fix like that for volt nuts? I don't think so. I sure hope I don't become a volt nut!
Steve