Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread

[Robert763]

You can't really blame C155 for giving up the ghost. Only a muppet or an accountant puts a 20V capacitor on a 0-20V supply output....

[med6753]

You can't really blame C155 for giving up the ghost. Only a muppet or an accountant puts a 20V capacitor on a 0-20V supply output....

You noticed that too? I did and the replacements are rated at 35V.

[duckduck]

You can't really blame C155 for giving up the ghost. Only a muppet or an accountant puts a 20V capacitor on a 0-20V supply output....

[(hp)] did this in my 34401A with a component that was rated for just above the input voltage for that area of the PCB. That little bugger gave up the smoke and put the AC-measuring side of the unit out of action until I replaced it with a something rated for +50% of what it was originally spec'ed for. I'm glad that it happened because I got the crippled DMM for cheap and it was a fix so easy that a regular bloke could handle it.

We need to put the bean counters on a ship to Antarctica and install only the cheapest lifeboats...

[tggzzz]

We need to put the bean counters on a ship to Antarctica and install only the cheapest lifeboats...

That's been tried with the Golgafrinchman B Ark, and look at the consequences.

[srb1954]

We need to put the bean counters on a ship to Antarctica and install only the cheapest lifeboats...

Better to ship them north rather than south. There are some starving polar bears up there who soon finish them off.

It would be a bit of poetic justice for them to be eaten by polar bears since past actions taken by bean counters are, in large part, responsible for the current plight of the polar bears.

[tautech]

Never ceases to amaze me how many still believe in The Convenient Lie. 

[tggzzz]

Never ceases to amaze me how many still believe in The Convenient Lie. 

Never ceases to amaze me how denialists "justify" their opinions.

Their typical political[1] affiliations don't surprise me, however.

[1] big hint.

[m k]

Sunspot! Don't forget sunspots!

[tautech]

Never ceases to amaze me how many still believe in The Convenient Lie. 

Never ceases to amaze me how denialists "justify" their opinions.

Their typical political[1] affiliations don't surprise me, however.

[1] big hint.

It also amazes me how many smart ppl can overlook the continually developing science, not all based on fact, but agendas with vested interest.