Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread

[neo]

TEA has now hit 100 pages, shall we celebrate by mainlining some Fluke and HP?

^{_{anyone who gets the joke gets a imaginary cookie}}

[xrunner]

TEA has now hit 100 pages, shall we celebrate by mainlining some Fluke and HP?

^{_{anyone who gets the joke gets a imaginary cookie}}

This demands a celebration!

100 pages of TEA!!!

[Specmaster]

TEA has now hit 100 pages, shall we celebrate by mainlining some Fluke and HP?

^{_{anyone who gets the joke gets a imaginary cookie}}

This demands a celebration!

100 pages of TEA!!!

I just did celebrate, so you can cancel the counselling now  , I just acquired what I hope is going to be a lovely Fluke 8505A with little that needs doing to it apart from general tidying up. I wavered a little bit I must admit, but I took some brave pills and took a step into uncharted waters, bidding on an item in the Good Old USA and much to my surprise I won it unopposed so now I'm wondering if the locals know something I don't 

I just hope and pray now that customs don't slap a hefty import charge on it and that it arrives when the wife is at work 

[bitseeker]

Pat, thanks for the ID tips. I usually go by the amber color, but the Data Precision ones are quite reddish.

100 pages! Yay! Although, that's a lot of lamenting over test equipment that's so much fun to acquire, repair, refurbish, use, and/or admire. Hmm, does this mean we've developed a TEA Thread Enjoyment Addiction? It's TEA²!

[Cubdriver]

Pat, thanks for the ID tips. I usually go by the amber color, but the Data Precision ones are quite reddish.

100 pages! Yay! Although, that's a lot of lamenting over test equipment that's so much fun to acquire, repair, refurbish, use, and/or admire. Hmm, does this mean we've developed a TEA Thread Enjoyment Addiction? It's TEA²!

Yeah, DP uses a red filter rather than the amber ones HP put in front of the nixies.

Wow - 100 pages!  How long till we make a thousand?

-Pat

[neo]

Pat, thanks for the ID tips. I usually go by the amber color, but the Data Precision ones are quite reddish.

100 pages! Yay! Although, that's a lot of lamenting over test equipment that's so much fun to acquire, repair, refurbish, use, and/or admire. Hmm, does this mean we've developed a TEA Thread Enjoyment Addiction? It's TEA²!

Yeah, DP uses a red filter rather than the amber ones HP put in front of the nixies.

Wow - 100 pages!  How long till we make a thousand?

-Pat

at my current estimate, 80 months, give or take a year.

[bd139]

Perhaps 1st of October should be TEA day

[Cerebus]

Perhaps 1st of October should be TEA day

What we need is a rally!

[Specmaster]

Look what I found. A Fluke 8505A for £100 about 30 mins from me. Someone buy it so I don’t: https://www.ebay.co.uk/i/282617106424

That’s 6.5 digits for £100! Plus it’s stacked with options.

Go on, buy it, you know you want to.. its way to big for my small room.

Time for me to eat my words, I succumbed to glowing digits winking at me, loaded with the essential options to make it a multimeter, otherwise its an expensive voltmeter, I can't quite get my head around way would you would design and build a meter with all the push buttons and legends printed on the panel for current, ohms and AC volts and then only sell it as standard with DC volts working, the others are options???

[eurofox]

Soon your wife’s will apply a new rule, no more new instruments or no sex anymore. 
 

[bd139]

First rule of marriage: buy a comfy sofa in case you have to sleep on it

[Rbastler]

First rule of marriage: buy a comfy sofa in case you have to sleep on it

Atm I'd say the first rule is: Don't marry at all.

[Specmaster]

Soon your wife’s will apply a new rule, no more new instruments or no sex anymore. 
 

I assume that your not married or only recently got married, sex is something that normally gradually disappears after a few years of marriage anyway, thats why many men look for alternatives like GAS and TEA 

[djos]

First rule of marriage: buy a comfy sofa in case you have to sleep on it

Atm I'd say the first rule is: Don't marry at all.

I liked it so much the first time, I did it again a second time! 

Lucky for me it's working out pretty well this time, we've been together 10 years and married for 8. 

[VK5RC]

Soon your wife’s will apply a new rule, no more new instruments or no sex anymore. 
 

There no game two can't play, "lets count the shoes" HiHi

[bd139]

Soon your wife’s will apply a new rule, no more new instruments or no sex anymore. 
 

I assume that your not married or only recently got married, sex is something that normally gradually disappears after a few years of marriage anyway, thats why many men look for alternatives like GAS and TEA 

16 years married. Yep.

I’m nearly at shed territory.

[Specmaster]

Haha I agree with all of you here, my second time around and been married this time for 35 years

• Lets count shoes and boots
• Count handbags
• Jewellary
• Clothes
• Cake decorating materials and gagdets

Shed should be called mancave surely?

[bd139]

Mine is a cake witch too.

Man cave is where you go when the shed is full

[med6753]

Local ham fest this morning and it was a bit of a disappointment. There were only about 25 vendors and naturally the vast majority of what was on sale was radio related equipment. There was a very dirty B&K 2120 20MHz scope for $65 USD (too much). I have the identical scope in much better shape so I didn't even make an offer.

Oh well...off the E-bay. 

[Cerebus]

Gentlemen fellow TEA of the UK, a heads up.

Those of you lusting after glowing nixie tubes might be tempted by the Keithley 160 DVM on ebay UK here that currently has no bids, and finishes at 10:44PM today.

[bd139]

Already on the list

[Specmaster]

Oh no, headaches are on their way, a few more digits and I might have been tempted 

[Specmaster]

Gentlemen fellow TEA of the UK, a heads up.

Those of you lusting after glowing nixie tubes might be tempted by the Keithley 160 DVM on ebay UK here that currently has no bids, and finishes at 10:44PM today.

This is actually quite interesting, it seems that the ohms range reads upto 1,000 M ohms, how often do you come across a resistor / resistance anywhere near that size?

[bd139]

Well spotted. They do exist in the wild. For example in high voltage divider probes for measuring CRT acceleration potential etc.

[Cerebus]

This is actually quite interesting, it seems that the ohms range reads upto 1,000 M ohms, how often do you come across a resistor / resistance anywhere near that size?

Keithley have always tended to push the edge of the envelope where others don't quite go. Low current, high voltage and so on. Quite a lot of the old 'brown' Keithleys have surprisingly high voltage sources (100+V, sometime much higher) inside them for the resistance ranges and bootstrapped amplifiers to cope with riding on them.

As to when you see 1G resistors, they crop more often than you might think. Feedback resistors in transresistance amplifers for measuring low currents, current shunts for low current sources and bias resistors in condenser microphones are three places that I've encountered them in practical use.