I meant to reply to a few posts earlier in the thread. Unfortunately got rather distracted with that SA. Anyway here we go... reply cannon loaded...
@mnementh: Those GF10A's look rather interesting although I'm not sure I can justify one of those for a few inductors. DE-5000 is probably best bang for buck that doesn't look hooky though ![Smiley :)](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/smiley.gif)
Also naptech. Indeed you'd think they sold beds or something. Another vendor that popped up inside there is Avantek who made the yig. Think they are dead now.
@med6753: regarding the RCA scope, that happened when I recapped the D83 HT. It was working but limping before hand but the moment I got my hands in it, I buggered something else. At least it's easy to get to the bits in yours ![Smiley :)](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/smiley.gif)
@GregDunn: Beavis was basically me from the age of about 12-20 and probably now a bit.
@URI: good luck with Keysight. I have had problems with them before ordering small parts. They work it out in the end. Not the most organised of companies at least from the UK when it comes to this stuff as you usually get bounced around for a bit.
WRT your experience with the 7000's. They had them where I worked in the mid-late 1990s with "for indication only". They actually did most of the real work. If traceable measurements were required the HP digital units got used or the engineers just lied. They forcibly levered a huge number of them off the people in the labs. Being located on the other side of the rather large facility, and doing something mostly unrelated by then, by the time the news had spread everyone had intercepted everything. I did walk away with something but I can't remember what. I think it was a Philips PM3217 but can't remember if it was the one I had until a few years back or that was a Yahoo auctions buy. Had soooo many scopes over the years. Really need to keep a lab notebook or something.
@Specmaster: those knobs look pretty good actually. For the money, you can't really beat something made to order of that quality. I'm seriously considering getting some stuff made up.
That was precisely my assessment of the GF10A/LCR106. While overall as a piece of hardware it does give me a raging nerd-boner, I just can't justify the cost even to my own psycho-ass self.
I imagined NapTech as maybe one of the first sleep-study institutes... that's what I get for thinking.
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WRT D83 & Beavis gif... Is that how penis fingers was made? Would explain SO-O-O much.
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I burned all my lab notebooks in a paranoid rage after I crashed & burned from working corporate. Probably the only reason I'm not in gitmo.
Back in school i liked to twiddle those old analog Hameg scopes that i found around the place. On purpose leaving all the switches in a state that is as far as possible from getting a stable trace. Sometimes i would then get to see someone try to use the scope and having one hell of a time getting it to do what they want. This made for some really good entertainment when a teacher that thinks he knows everything (But really doesn't) tried to use it in a demo with everyone gathered around (Okay that one was a bit evil, but lots of fun).
When I was in school, that was one of the "pop quizzes" our instructor would lay on us from time to time... he'd deliberately twiddle every scope on the benches beforehand to make it as messed-up as possible, then have us get a specific waveform from our lab circuits (usually a tricky one that wasn't labeled on the board, but that we SHOULD HAVE stumbled across while we were assembling or some point in the circuit that he had specifically gone over in lecture) up on the screen in 5-10 minutes, depending on what he felt was reasonable setup and diag time. When the egg-timer dinged, you stepped away from the bench immediately or you got an X. Sonuvabitch wasn't above unplugging cables from the back of the scope either.
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At the end of the course he explained that the whole purpose of the pop-quizzes was NOT grading... (though I suspect he did use those results as a grading "modifier") but to get us in the habit of turning on, checking and setting up the scope and meters properly for use first thing, every time we sat down... which was something he stressed during several lectures throughout the course without in any way relating this to the quizzes. About a third of us started doing it without even thinking about it while he did his "last class recap" at the beginning of every class.
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A power supply I didn't need or really want. But no one bid against me.
Kepco ate25-10.
I will be giving away my cheap/ broken cheap power supplies , and selling my 2 high end ones.
Yeah, I've amassed quite a collection over the years myself... gonna have to cull the herd here pretty soon. I have more than 20 variable and fixed-voltage regulated PSUs, not including 3 storage bins full of wall-wart & laptop-style PSUs up to ~10A capacity. And in all honesty, not one of them what I'd consider to be "lab quality" since my Lambda/Veeco dual 40V unit actually caught fire a few years ago.
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mnem
*Currently trying to resurrect Franken-Cruiser's AC... AGAIN.*