Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread

[beanflying]

So @med you going to do the deed and go for a drive ? Only a few hours to go

[bd139]

@BU508A it's a parrot not a chicken 

So quick cracking session. My DG822 now thinks it's a DG992. Interestingly apart from the screen decoration turning red, the output buttons changed colour from green to red at the same time 

[Brumby]

So @med you going to do the deed and go for a drive ? Only a few hours to go

Bean ... the enabler.  ^  ^  ^


Have you no shame?

[beanflying]

So @med you going to do the deed and go for a drive ? Only a few hours to go

Bean ... the enabler.  ^  ^  ^

Have you no shame?

Do you really have to ask? 

[Specmaster]

Tomorrow he'll get pissed at it and sell it. 


J/K....nice! 

Many a true word spoken in jest, remember all of those Teks that were going to the grave with him, the last of which was the TDS210, which I still have mine (the only Tek I have ever owned) and was the first true scope I had with some form of cursors and measurement, which I love  The first "scope" with cursors I got was the "toy one", the DSO138 in acrylic case no less. It is a very basic no frills, battery operated pocket scope which is quite useful for audio work and built from a kit.

[Cerebus]

But why is there a chicken sitting above the Siglent sticker? 

That's not a chicken, that looks like a fur fabric costume pushed into semi-concealment behind something. I can't imagine what bd139 would be doing with one of those.

[Specmaster]

But why is there a chicken sitting above the Siglent sticker? 

That's not a chicken, that looks like a fur fabric costume pushed into semi-concealment behind something. I can't imagine what bd139 would be doing with one of those.

Could it be that he's the local part-time super hero of Isleworth 

[bd139]

Giggity

[med6753]

So @med you going to do the deed and go for a drive ? Only a few hours to go

Bean.....I really appreciate you making me aware of that calibrator and I seriously considered going after it but finally decided to let it go. That 760A is freaking HUGE. It's the size of a standard pallet. Plus it must weigh a ton. Frankly I have no room for it and if it's as heavy as I think I'll never get up a flight of stairs. And I really suspect the hands of multiple gorilla's have been in there.

I'm sure something more suitable will come along.

[med6753]

And speaking of something huge and heavy......I'm going in possibly never to return. 

[Cerebus]

Could it be that he's the local part-time super hero of Isleworth 

Deposits villains on the steps of the local police station with their hands heat-shrunk together.

[Brumby]

So @med you going to do the deed and go for a drive ? Only a few hours to go

Bean ... the enabler.  ^  ^  ^

Have you no shame?

Do you really have to ask? 

Not really... but I just wanted to highlight the effort made.   

Bean.....I really appreciate you making me aware of that calibrator and I seriously considered going after it but finally decided to let it go.

Nice try Bean... Better luck next time.

[Mr. Scram]

@BU508A it's a parrot not a chicken 

So quick cracking session. My DG822 now thinks it's a DG992. Interestingly apart from the screen decoration turning red, the output buttons changed colour from green to red at the same time 

At what point does the square wave go to shit?

[beanflying]

And speaking of something huge and heavy......I'm going in possibly never to return. 

See you clearly like a little junk in the trunk  This wee beasty isn't that big..... compared to a truck

[mnementh]

   And @ Mnementh let my loan you my Vegan Tenderizer to aid your 

You don't want dragon skin in your little mallet; it's caustic.

mnem
9 out of 10 cannibals prefer vegetarians. 

[tggzzz]

And speaking of something huge and heavy......I'm going in possibly never to return. 

See you clearly like a little junk in the trunk  This wee beasty isn't that big..... compared to a truck

Nor is it that accurate, according to the sticker: 0.25%of reading + 25uA

[BU508A]

@BU508A it's a parrot not a chicken 

So quick cracking session. My DG822 now thinks it's a DG992. Interestingly apart from the screen decoration turning red, the output buttons changed colour from green to red at the same time 

To be honest: the first thing I'd do is to get rid off this stupid comma and replace the point with a comma (if possible). Confuses me all the time.   

[Ice-Tea]

Enough with all that newfangled gear!

Something be glowing in them there hills! 

[mnementh]

To be fair, they seem to have learned the lesson (this time)      Of course, no guarantee someone won't get clever with "design" next time.

Looks like they stuck the DG8 and DG9 hardware in a different box and increased the price a fair bit.

First thing I'd do is take those hideous bumpers off and burn them. Then put some nermal feet on the bottom. Fuckwits.

   New toy arrived. Haven't had any time to do anything useful yet with it but I plugged it in while I was on a conference call    ...Responsiveness much better. FFT much better. User interface about the same. Much much quieter than the DS1054Z. No complaints so far.

Y'all are REALLY making me regret letting that $188 XDS3202E from Arrow's Lilliput Blowout slip through my fingers... 

...I found this article much more interesting: https://hackaday.com/2020/03/10/forming-sheet-metal-parts-with-3d-printed-dies/

mnem
 

You really need to get your printer out of jail or add a second one.  That and follow this thread/post from a couple of weeks back  https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/3d-printer-yet/msg2840784/#msg2840784

Yeah, if for no other reason than to print a larger version of your vegan tenderizer to apply to my own daft skull next time I think about passing up a deal like that XDS3202E... 

mnem

[med6753]

Tektronix, you disappoint me. You went cheap in later years. I don't know how many times I struggled to get the best compromise when performing compensation adjustments of the 400 series because you insisted on having one set of adjustments cover 2 volts/div ranges. And you did the same on 7000 series plug-ins too. But not so this 1A2 plug-in. INDIVIDUAL compensation adjustments for each volts/div. It made performing the compensation a joy. No flipping back and forth and fiddling to get the best waveform. This one was simple, straight forward, and accurate.

Both channels fell into place on all ranges with minimum fuss.  And the 535A is back on it's feet. 

[beanflying]

And speaking of something huge and heavy......I'm going in possibly never to return. 

See you clearly like a little junk in the trunk  This wee beasty isn't that big..... compared to a truck

Nor is it that accurate, according to the sticker: 0.25%of reading + 25uA

It is also going for $30 and with @meds current gear apart from maybe his Siglent more than up to the job.

[med6753]

Enough with all that newfangled gear!

Something be glowing in them there hills! 

Stop with the teasers.  Post up...what you got?

[med6753]

And speaking of something huge and heavy......I'm going in possibly never to return. 

See you clearly like a little junk in the trunk  This wee beasty isn't that big..... compared to a truck

Nor is it that accurate, according to the sticker: 0.25%of reading + 25uA

It is also going for $30 and with @meds current gear apart from maybe his Siglent more than up to the job.

I agree, the price is right. Yea.....a little lacking in accuracy. But the size....that's the killer. Even compared to a truck it's huge. 

[Ice-Tea]

Enough with all that newfangled gear!

Something be glowing in them there hills! 

Stop with the teasers.  Post up...what you got?

Well...





The pulser was last called in... 2016. Did not see that coming 

[bd139]

@BU508A it's a parrot not a chicken 

So quick cracking session. My DG822 now thinks it's a DG992. Interestingly apart from the screen decoration turning red, the output buttons changed colour from green to red at the same time 

At what point does the square wave go to shit?

Gets a bit fugly around 20MHz. Not overly bothered as I only need very low amplitude sines after about 3MHz and only up to around 71MHz.