Looking for suggestions... I know none of us here usually need motivation to acquire more TEA, but I've been assessing my lab over the last few days and have decided that the obvious missing device on my bench is a VTVM. What VTVM would you guys recommend? Keeping in mind - It shouldn't be the size of a truck. It shouldn't be some rarity that goes for silly money. It should be relatively easy to find in Europe. It should be a device where the schematics and parts are readily available.
McBryce.
Looking for suggestions... I know none of us here usually need motivation to acquire more TEA, but I've been assessing my lab over the last few days and have decided that the obvious missing device on my bench is a VTVM. What VTVM would you guys recommend? Keeping in mind - It shouldn't be the size of a truck. It shouldn't be some rarity that goes for silly money. It should be relatively easy to find in Europe. It should be a device where the schematics and parts are readily available.
McBryce.
The best fit for your requirements would be Heathkit. Readily available in the UK. Not sure about the rest of Europe. So you may have to deal with VAT, Brexit, and all that bullshit.
This will take a while... Famous last words.
mnem
*sent by threatening my smartPwn with cold oscilloscope probes*
Looking for suggestions... I know none of us here usually need motivation to acquire more TEA, but I've been assessing my lab over the last few days and have decided that the obvious missing device on my bench is a VTVM. What VTVM would you guys recommend? Keeping in mind - It shouldn't be the size of a truck. It shouldn't be some rarity that goes for silly money. It should be relatively easy to find in Europe. It should be a device where the schematics and parts are readily available.
McBryce.
The best fit for your requirements would be Heathkit. Readily available in the UK. Not sure about the rest of Europe. So you may have to deal with VAT, Brexit, and all that bullshit.
Any particular model, or are they all good?
McBryce.
Ummm... you do know that pizza pie as it is now known is not an actually an Italian dish, but rather originated as street vendor/micro-eatery food invented by Italian immigrants in New York City?
[Citation Required]
What VTVM would you guys recommend? Keeping in mind - It shouldn't be the size of a truck. It shouldn't be some rarity that goes for silly money.
Looking for suggestions... I know none of us here usually need motivation to acquire more TEA, but I've been assessing my lab over the last few days and have decided that the obvious missing device on my bench is a VTVM. What VTVM would you guys recommend? Keeping in mind - It shouldn't be the size of a truck. It shouldn't be some rarity that goes for silly money. It should be relatively easy to find in Europe. It should be a device where the schematics and parts are readily available.
McBryce.
This will take a while... Famous last words.
mnem
*sent by threatening my smartPwn with cold oscilloscope probes*I think I could post you a surplus SSD from work via boat and it'll arrive before your updates have finished.
Looking for suggestions... I know none of us here usually need motivation to acquire more TEA, but I've been assessing my lab over the last few days and have decided that the obvious missing device on my bench is a VTVM. What VTVM would you guys recommend? Keeping in mind - It shouldn't be the size of a truck. It shouldn't be some rarity that goes for silly money. It should be relatively easy to find in Europe. It should be a device where the schematics and parts are readily available.
McBryce....The transistor meters are continuations of the VTVM spirit, highly sensitive meters for things like audio work, low burden on DUT, et c. Which is why they're in my exposé. But they're only the same idea, not the same thing.
...if what he really needed was a VTVM, or if one of the more recent Dual-FET sand-state meters might be a better choice;
Ummm... you do know that pizza pie as it is now known is not an actually an Italian dish, but rather originated as street vendor/micro-eatery food invented by Italian immigrants in New York City?
[Citation Required]Required...? pfffft. Do your own research.
What they made in Italy "back in the day" bears very little resemblance to what we call pizza nowadays, which is a New York City invention. This is pretty common knowledge.
Seller responded quite quickly, and asked for video of the problem sent to an external (from ebay) email, along with a repeat of the description of the problem and the order number.
...the usual tactics of letting people jump through a succession of hoops in the hope that they'll eventually give up. Have they already offered you a refund of something like 1 percent of the auction price?
They haven't offered anything as yet. I'm certainly not paying anything for this one, they can send me a return label. It may or may not be fixable, in point of fact the PLL lock LED actually comes on properly now, but the performance otherwise is unchanged.
The fact they asked me to communicate outside ebay undermines their case massively; ebay will frown deeply when they see that and likely come down 100% on my side regardless of anything else.
Oh, here are the pics I sent. You can see the frequency is miles off, and the waveform at the lower frequency is horrible.
Wow, it goes down to millihertz!
Which is a serious insult to proper sig gens like my HP 3325A which goes down to 1 microhertz (one cycle per 11.57..407.. days).
Ummm... you do know that pizza pie as it is now known is not an actually an Italian dish, but rather originated as street vendor/micro-eatery food invented by Italian immigrants in New York City?
[Citation Required]Required...? pfffft. Do your own research.
You make an extraordinary claim, contrary to what the rest of the world believes, and when someone asks for some sort of proof you say "Do your own research"? Have you joined Q-Anon? All it takes is one reference to a URL that someone would regard as well-sourced and believable.
I don't hold with "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence", but some plausable evidence would help to convince us that you're not just blowing smoke up our collective arses.What they made in Italy "back in the day" bears very little resemblance to what we call pizza nowadays, which is a New York City invention. This is pretty common knowledge.
Agreed, with the qualification that "we" is New Yorkers. So the debate isn't the origin of pizza, but "Whether that thing they make in New York and call a pie can be called pizza".
Flatbread cooked from raw with a topping of cheese has existed at least since the time of the Achaemenid Empire and is almost certainly older. The canonical cheese and tomato pizza and such being called pizza has been around in Italy since at least the 18th century when there was only a New York province. The first New York Pizzeria opened in 1905, at which time there was already a pizzeria in Naples that had existed since before 1889, with a pizzaiolo so famous that in 1889 the King and Queen made a special visit to it* and the Margherita got its name. There's evidence of the Sicillian style deep pan pizza being common from the 17th century in Sicily.
*"Esiste poi la vera storia della pizza Margherita che non possiamo tralasciare: Raffaele Esposito, il pizzaiolo dell’Ottocento napoletano più famoso, viene incaricato di far assaggiare alla Regina Margherita in visita a Napoli nel 1889 con suo marito il re Umberto I, proprio la pizza napoletana."
Ummm... you do know that pizza pie as it is now known is not an actually an Italian dish, but rather originated as street vendor/micro-eatery food invented by Italian immigrants in New York City?
[Citation Required]Required...? pfffft. Do your own research.
You make an extraordinary claim, contrary to what the rest of the world believes, and when someone asks for some sort of proof you say "Do your own research"? Have you joined Q-Anon? All it takes is one reference to a URL that someone would regard as well-sourced and believable.
I don't hold with "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence", but some plausable evidence would help to convince us that you're not just blowing smoke up our collective arses.What they made in Italy "back in the day" bears very little resemblance to what we call pizza nowadays, which is a New York City invention. This is pretty common knowledge.
Agreed, with the qualification that "we" is New Yorkers. So the debate isn't the origin of pizza, but "Whether that thing they make in New York and call a pie can be called pizza".
Flatbread cooked from raw with a topping of cheese has existed at least since the time of the Achaemenid Empire and is almost certainly older. The canonical cheese and tomato pizza and such being called pizza has been around in Italy since at least the 18th century when there was only a New York province. The first New York Pizzeria opened in 1905, at which time there was already a pizzeria in Naples that had existed since before 1889, with a pizzaiolo so famous that in 1889 the King and Queen made a special visit to it* and the Margherita got its name. There's evidence of the Sicillian style deep pan pizza being common from the 17th century in Sicily.
*"Esiste poi la vera storia della pizza Margherita che non possiamo tralasciare: Raffaele Esposito, il pizzaiolo dell’Ottocento napoletano più famoso, viene incaricato di far assaggiare alla Regina Margherita in visita a Napoli nel 1889 con suo marito il re Umberto I, proprio la pizza napoletana."
This is not "an extraordinary claim, contrary to what the rest of the world believes"; it is, as I said, common knowledge. Well, okay; as we have lots of internet evidence to the contrary, I suppose it is what used to be common knowledge.
Perhaps this may provide the answer, but as far as I can see it is not definitive.
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/263732/where-does-pizza-pie-originate
For me, pizza comes from the freezer
Perhaps this may provide the answer, but as far as I can see it is not definitive.
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/263732/where-does-pizza-pie-originate
Don't be foolish, we have the definitive word from the Dragon, there is no need for further debate. It was indeed truly genuinely stupid of me to challenge any claim from him and expect anything good to come of it.
For me, pizza comes from the freezer