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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #76325 on: November 30, 2020, 12:43:23 am »
Any valve-technology repair you walk away from is a good repair.  :-DD

How many digits (yours, not the scope's ;)) were lost or mutilated...?  >:D

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I count 9 so I'm good.  :-+ Oh...wait... :o :scared: :-DD



Oh, so you've grown a extra then...?  :-DD

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I have the important ones which is why I have the girl, and you, well.....eat your heart out.  :P :P :P :-DD

Yeah... I'm married to a woman I've been head-over-tail in love with for decades, and I have two beautiful children. What wuzzat...? ;)

Omg don’t Google Smurf porn  :scared:

They doo eet weeth thee mushroom, bay-beee! :-DD

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #76326 on: November 30, 2020, 01:46:08 am »

That's okay... there's this sexy little red Mazda Miata down the street I been thinkin' aboot for a one-nighter...    r/DFC

You can't even FIT in a Miata.  :P :-DD
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #76327 on: November 30, 2020, 02:04:21 am »
Why am I suddenly thinking of this:

Anybody got a syringe I can use to squeeze the magic smoke back into this?
 
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #76328 on: November 30, 2020, 04:06:33 am »
Ehhh... if it explodes when I explode, wasn't my car note.  >:D

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #76329 on: November 30, 2020, 05:19:15 am »

That's okay... there's this sexy little red Mazda Miata down the street I been thinkin' aboot for a one-nighter...    r/DFC

You can't even FIT in a Miata.  :P :-DD

Miata / MX-5 are actually surprisingly roomy inside - I'm pretty tall and find it pretty comfortable!    Like driving a go-cart...
 
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #76330 on: November 30, 2020, 06:01:12 am »
Since it seems to be "peeve-day" let me bring up another one.

Bad machine translations.

Are there any other kind? Machine translation is fine to get the jist of something you can't read, but to treat it as a finished product to put in front of customers is a variant of original sin.

I dunno if that's better or worse than our near-daily misadventures with cheap electronics that have manuals written in Chinglish. :o

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That is, when they do have a manual...  |O


I'm not sure if that is much worse than the Franglish or Deutschlisch like we used to encounter back in the day!
 

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #76331 on: November 30, 2020, 06:04:18 am »

That's okay... there's this sexy little red Mazda Miata down the street I been thinkin' aboot for a one-nighter...    r/dragonsfuckingcars

You can't even FIT in a Miata.  :P :-DD

Miata / MX-5 are actually surprisingly roomy inside - I'm pretty tall and find it pretty comfortable!    Like driving a go-cart...

Oh, man... I am so sorry aboot your upholstery.  :-[   And NOTHING gets that out... car is tainted for all eternity.  >:D

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #76332 on: November 30, 2020, 06:27:52 am »

I'm not sure if that is much worse than the Franglish or Deutschlisch like we used to encounter back in the day!

If already, then already: Denglish, pls! svp!
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #76333 on: November 30, 2020, 07:37:14 am »
Ehhh... if it explodes when I explode, wasn't my car note.  >:D

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I woke up to this  :palm: :-DD :-DD :-DD
 
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #76334 on: November 30, 2020, 07:52:45 am »

I'm not sure if that is much worse than the Franglish or Deutschlisch like we used to encounter back in the day!

If already, then already: Denglish, pls! svp!

Ok "Denglish" ------------its just that "Deutschlich"sounded so deliciously "fake German"!

For a non-multilingual person, the German texts were a bit easier to sort of "reverse engineer" than the  French ones, paricularly if I had access to the original language text.

EEs being EEs & draughtsmen being draughtsmen, though, from time to time we were confronted by fairly sketchy symbols designated by non standard terms, like "Drossell" instead of "Induktor".
I was pretty sure that's what it was, but the only translation I could find referred to a type of bird!

The French seemed to delight in confusing me totally.
One favourite of  the company which made our gear was using the same designation for multiple devices without quoting which module each one was part of, so a series of "daisy chained" relays may have two or more RL1s.
 

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #76335 on: November 30, 2020, 08:19:27 am »
Ok "Denglish" ------------its just that "Deutschlich"sounded so deliciously "fake German"!

For a non-multilingual person, the German texts were a bit easier to sort of "reverse engineer" than the  French ones, paricularly if I had access to the original language text.

EEs being EEs & draughtsmen being draughtsmen, though, from time to time we were confronted by fairly sketchy symbols designated by non standard terms, like "Drossell" instead of "Induktor".
I was pretty sure that's what it was, but the only translation I could find referred to a type of bird!



"Drossel" is the correct technical term in German for inductor and choke too, but also refers to a bird. That's always good for some puns within German EEs.
There's also the term "Induktivität" that means inductance / inductor, depending on its usage. Normally it's used to refer inductance, and "Drossel" or "Spule" for an actual inductor.

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #76336 on: November 30, 2020, 08:43:00 am »

That's okay... there's this sexy little red Mazda Miata down the street I been thinkin' aboot for a one-nighter...    r/DFC

You can't even FIT in a Miata.  :P :-DD

Like he said,"There's not mushroom inside!"
 
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #76337 on: November 30, 2020, 08:55:04 am »
Ok "Denglish" ------------its just that "Deutschlich"sounded so deliciously "fake German"!

For a non-multilingual person, the German texts were a bit easier to sort of "reverse engineer" than the  French ones, paricularly if I had access to the original language text.

EEs being EEs & draughtsmen being draughtsmen, though, from time to time we were confronted by fairly sketchy symbols designated by non standard terms, like "Drossell" instead of "Induktor".
I was pretty sure that's what it was, but the only translation I could find referred to a type of bird!



"Drossel" is the correct technical term in German for inductor and choke too, but also refers to a bird. That's always good for some puns within German EEs.
There's also the term "Induktivität" that means inductance / inductor, depending on its usage. Normally it's used to refer inductance, and "Drossel" or "Spule" for an actual inductor.

I shouldn't complain, as I'm old enough to remember "Inductance" & "Choke" being commonly used for "inductor"  in Oz.

Comes to that, "resistance" for "resistor" & "Condenser" for "capacitor" were common.
We regularly used decimal parts of uF, with "0.001uF" for "1nF", & so on----------"uuF"instead of "pF" was also common.
 
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #76338 on: November 30, 2020, 08:59:06 am »
We regularly used decimal parts of uF, with "0.001uF" for "1nF", & so on----------"uuF"instead of "pF" was also common.
mF still crops up sometimes here on the forum where you'd think uF was universal these days.  :-//
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #76339 on: November 30, 2020, 09:24:30 am »
We regularly used decimal parts of uF, with "0.001uF" for "1nF", & so on----------"uuF"instead of "pF" was also common.
mF still crops up sometimes here on the forum where you'd think uF was universal these days.  :-//

And "nF". Nope.......uF or pF.  ;D
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #76340 on: November 30, 2020, 09:27:59 am »
We regularly used decimal parts of uF, with "0.001uF" for "1nF", & so on----------"uuF"instead of "pF" was also common.
mF still crops up sometimes here on the forum where you'd think uF was universal these days.  :-//

And "nF". Nope.......uf or pf.  ;D
Big F please or Mr Farad might object !  :P
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #76341 on: November 30, 2020, 09:33:33 am »
We regularly used decimal parts of uF, with "0.001uF" for "1nF", & so on----------"uuF"instead of "pF" was also common.
mF still crops up sometimes here on the forum where you'd think uF was universal these days.  :-//

And "nF". Nope.......uf or pf.  ;D

Big F please or Mr Farad might object !  :P

Gimme a break. It's early in the morning and I'm still on first few sips of coffee.  :P :-DD

But I did go back and fix it.  ;D
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #76342 on: November 30, 2020, 09:44:19 am »
We regularly used decimal parts of uF, with "0.001uF" for "1nF", & so on----------"uuF"instead of "pF" was also common.
mF still crops up sometimes here on the forum where you'd think uF was universal these days.  :-//

And "nF". Nope.......uf or pf.  ;D

Big F please or Mr Farad might object !  :P

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #76343 on: November 30, 2020, 10:14:13 am »
We regularly used decimal parts of uF, with "0.001uF" for "1nF", & so on----------"uuF"instead of "pF" was also common.
mF still crops up sometimes here on the forum where you'd think uF was universal these days.  :-//

And "nF". Nope.......uf or pf.  ;D
Big F please or Mr Farad might object !  :P

Mr Faraday, if you please.

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #76344 on: November 30, 2020, 10:23:17 am »
Last year I visited Dave's lab when David was there and got put on the spot with the question from them about using nF over pF - for example 6.8nF vs 6800pF.

I had to think about that for a second to realise that I had grown up with both usages and could work with either.  I think they were hoping for a vote one way or the other...  ;D
 

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #76345 on: November 30, 2020, 10:30:14 am »
"nF" is foreign to me. So is "mF". But hey, at least I did graduate from "uuF" to "pF".  :-+


And this is a resistor.    :-DD :-DD

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #76346 on: November 30, 2020, 10:39:35 am »
That's an inductive resistor  ;D

I use nF (and mF once in a while) what's wrong with mF?
Is it because people confuse m for mili- with the m at the begining of micro- used for μF?
 
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #76347 on: November 30, 2020, 10:42:44 am »
Americans can't handle more than two Si Units at once without suffering mental overload.

So capacitors are 1000000uF and 15000pF
 
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #76348 on: November 30, 2020, 10:44:17 am »
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #76349 on: November 30, 2020, 10:46:09 am »
I use nF (and mF once in a while) what's wrong with mF?
Is it because people confuse m for mili- with the m at the begining of micro- used for μF?

Nothing is wrong with mF. It's just an unusual form to me, and I need to convert e.g. 2.2mF to 2200uF to figure the capacity while looking at a schematic. It's just about how one is used to read the values.

No confusion micro / mili, for micro Farad one uses uF.
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