Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread

[Robert763]

Bit of a cheeky flip on ebay UK

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/275295607882
Was
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TTI-TG1010-Programmable-10MHz-DDS-Function-Generator-BA4-/394042254993
They even stole the image from the original listing. They cannot even have received the generator yet.
The buyer and seller feedback scores match.

Have a punt at this one instead:  https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255515545471

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This looks like the sort of thing Robert enjoys:  https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/165461833375

I was watching that already. I've got 4 or 5 digitial synchro / resolver indicators already. The DDC one is interesting because it is 0.001 degree resolution and 0.005 degree accuracy. 
Also it's manual explicitly states that a calibration check only needs a ac supply of about 400 Hz and more than 10 V. You just connect it to the inputs in various combinations and get reading for every 60 degrees. There is no adjustment. Synchros and resolvers are totally ratiometric so as long as the two ADCs are monotonic and linear you are good to go. Most of the others call up a precision synchro simulator which then needs calibration.
I won the auction with no other bids and assuming it works will have a high resolution standard angle indicator that has "tracable cal" 
Not many people are using synchros these days though.

[tggzzz]

The UK housing market is completely dysfunctional.

Daughter is getting a no-fault eviction in September; she stands zero chance of getting somewhere to live:

• self-employed: lenders say no proof of earnings
• has dog: landlords say no
• is single and employed: councils say not a priority

"Fortunately" her (beloved) grandmother died and I'm in a position to allow her inheritance to skip a generation (assuming the house sale completes). Talk about the nick of time.

Yeah similar situation. Just basically have to put down one year of rent up front, in my case £24k 

Daughter reckons landlords think that implies you are going to be absent, and will turn the property into a greenhouse full of funny purple lights.

[tggzzz]

Congratulations, I think 

Griefkit counter out for delivery via Hermes. Here we go...

I've been waiting for a deivery of some space-race era photos, so put a "push the bell -->" sign in my letterbox.

Herpes Hermes is usually reasonable here, but this time the Herpes Evri Nevri driver ignored it. I don't think he got close enough to read it.

[med6753]

"Just a quick spit-polish to get this FG504 ready to sell off"..... 

Looks like the bench could use a spit-polish too.  J/K. 

Been meaning to ask. Are you fluent in speaking/writing Japanese?

[bd139]

The UK housing market is completely dysfunctional.

Daughter is getting a no-fault eviction in September; she stands zero chance of getting somewhere to live:

• self-employed: lenders say no proof of earnings
• has dog: landlords say no
• is single and employed: councils say not a priority

"Fortunately" her (beloved) grandmother died and I'm in a position to allow her inheritance to skip a generation (assuming the house sale completes). Talk about the nick of time.

Yeah similar situation. Just basically have to put down one year of rent up front, in my case £24k 

Daughter reckons landlords think that implies you are going to be absent, and will turn the property into a greenhouse full of funny purple lights.

Bit difficult smuggling crops like that past the concierge 

[TERRA Operative]

"Just a quick spit-polish to get this FG504 ready to sell off"..... 

Looks like the bench could use a spit-polish too.  J/K. 

Been meaning to ask. Are you fluent in speaking/writing Japanese?

The bench is almost always in a terrible state, that's how you know it's getting used properly!...

And, my Japanese is terrible. Haha. I can get by day to day, but I find Google translate and my wife to be very helpful in filling in the (very large) gaps.

[med6753]

"Just a quick spit-polish to get this FG504 ready to sell off"..... 

Looks like the bench could use a spit-polish too.  J/K. 

Been meaning to ask. Are you fluent in speaking/writing Japanese?

The bench is almost always in a terrible state, that's how you know it's getting used properly!...

And, my Japanese is terrible. Haha. I can get by day to day, but I find Google translate and my wife to be very helpful in filling in the (very large) gaps.

Do you ever see my bench idle? 

Can't hear you. 

I rest my case. 

[mnementh]

So yes... I can totally see myself having "the talk" with every suitor who comes to see my daughter... and it shall most likely include snapping a pic of the driver's license (she's never going out unsupervised with any boy who isn't at least that responsible and prepared for life) & it will most likely end with "...and if you make her cry, I WILL make YOU cry."

This is 1950s bullshit. It just perpetuates a gender stereotype.  If the US indeed is back-asswards enough to require it, and it does seem so, I pity you lot.

Maybe you missed the part where my daughter is global developmental delay/high functioning autistic. I know I've mentioned it before.

This has nothing to do with gender, or me being an American. Well, IME the inability to provide "balanced protectiveness" is; but I already explained my position on that. If you feel your kids are ready for that most personal of encounters as they are, well good for you.

I have a better than average understanding how easily she could be taken advantage of; I know how easily I was manipulated when I was younger, and I know she will be much more gullible for many more years to come than I was. I am doing all I know how to prepare her for life anyways, but I will still watch out for her, and I hope that when I'm gone her big brother will continue to do so in my place.

She is gonna need it; every aspect of her life is going to take that much longer to develop than it does for the rest of us.

Cheers,

mnem
*toddles off to pick them up from school*

[Ice-Tea]

Bleh. Misbehaving 745A AC calibrator. Anyone desperate for a project?

[BU508A]

Bleh. Misbehaving 745A AC calibrator. Anyone desperate for a project?

I've heard, that bd139 needs some distraction from his other activities.     

[bd139]

Bleh. Misbehaving 745A AC calibrator. Anyone desperate for a project?

I've heard, that bd139 needs some distraction from his other activities.     

I need small, manageable distractions 

[Ice-Tea]

Sweet baby Jesus.... 

[bd139]

RIP 

[AVGresponding]

Yes, but why shouldn't key workers be able to get on the property ladder as well instead of being doomed to being renters all their life and seeing their rents for ever-increasing while homeowners, once the mortgage is paid, see their monthly out goings drop dramatically?

Well you have to ask the extreme which is why should anyone be able to get on the property ladder? It's a privilege yes, but a necessity no when we have a half decent welfare system in place (I know I'll get flak for that one  ). I know people who did get on the property ladder and are a lot worse off for it. I actually don't know anyone who was better off for owning really at this point. As for rent increasing, so does the housing component of universal credit.

As to getting on the housing list and getting given a council flat/house, my son and his partner had been living in a privately rented flat for 4 years, and on the housing list with the council. They were on the top floor of a block of flats and his partner is a registered disabled person and needed a ground floor flat or a house. They have now got a ground floor flat, 3 years later, but NOT with the local council though, it's with a London based housing association, and that is here in the middle of Essex, so your ex was bleeding lucky to get a place that quick.

The thing is that there's a queue. Have to wait for people to snuff it or move on or build more houses 

Need to solve all these problems: universal basic income, rent control, better housing standards and housing stock. Unfortunately a lot of our politicians are landlords and business folk and that's a bit too left for them. Plus that silly old witch introduced the right to buy scheme.

Reluctant though I am to participate in political discussions here on the TEA thread, I feel I have to point out that the Right To Buy policy is not the problem. The problem is that she also made it illegal for local councils to borrow against their capital in order to build new housing stock.



Normal on-topic service will be resumed in my next post.

[AVGresponding]

Ok, fleabay time.



Slightly on the expensive side, I feel:  https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/284791105642





Can't imagine how much tzzzzztt is inside this, but quite a lot I'd guess:  https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/325176998475





Less tzzzztt, still enough to give you a thrill I think though:  https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/374060984811





Stand by for the Fluke tax to kick in and send the price to the far north:  https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/144534987507





Massive massive want, someone local buy it and mail it to me please:  https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/325173973423





This seems close to reasonably priced:  https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/134106389672





Here's one NOT for bd139...      https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/265668915348





Seems a bit salty, might be worth a lowball:  https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/313970920599





Overpriced case for your favourite hammer:  https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/265631040410





Don't think I've ever seen a workbench big enough for this..:  https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255523718174

[Specmaster]

Congratulations, I think 

Griefkit counter out for delivery via Hermes. Here we go...

I've been waiting for a deivery of some space-race era photos, so put a "push the bell -->" sign in my letterbox.

Herpes Hermes is usually reasonable here, but this time the Herpes Evri Nevri driver ignored it. I don't think he got close enough to read it.

I on the other hand seem to have far better luck with Hermes/Evri and also InPost which is also part of the same group, and the delivery driver is the same. I scored on another online sales platform, a new, still sealed and in box 12 digit, 2 colour printing calculator, current version on Amazon is over £150, and I got mine for £24 delivered, arrived today.

It was sent via InPost, and it was Evri driver who dropped it off, all nicely wrapped in Christmas wrapping paper like a present, with zero extra packing to protect the calculator and its carton, and I received it in the same condition it would have been if I purchased it in a local shop. So it really does seem to be more to with your local driver's rather than anything else with the Hermes Group.

[Specmaster]

The UK housing market is completely dysfunctional.

Daughter is getting a no-fault eviction in September; she stands zero chance of getting somewhere to live:

• self-employed: lenders say no proof of earnings
• has dog: landlords say no
• is single and employed: councils say not a priority

"Fortunately" her (beloved) grandmother died and I'm in a position to allow her inheritance to skip a generation (assuming the house sale completes). Talk about the nick of time.

Yeah similar situation. Just basically have to put down one year of rent up front, in my case £24k 

Daughter reckons landlords think that implies you are going to be absent, and will turn the property into a greenhouse full of funny purple lights.

Bit difficult smuggling crops like that past the concierge 

Just offer to give them a cut, simples....

[mnementh]

Actually on that topic, she sent me this the other day     

So... you're saying she was born with The Knack...?

Poor thing... she will be doomed to forever know better, yet cursed to stand by helpless as those around her repeat the lessons of history, never learning from them... 

mnem
Cassandra was an optimist.

[tggzzz]

Congratulations, I think 

Griefkit counter out for delivery via Hermes. Here we go...

I've been waiting for a deivery of some space-race era photos, so put a "push the bell -->" sign in my letterbox.

Herpes Hermes is usually reasonable here, but this time the Herpes Evri Nevri driver ignored it. I don't think he got close enough to read it.

I on the other hand seem to have far better luck with Hermes/Evri and also InPost which is also part of the same group, and the delivery driver is the same. I scored on another online sales platform, a new, still sealed and in box 12 digit, 2 colour printing calculator, current version on Amazon is over £150, and I got mine for £24 delivered, arrived today.

It was sent via InPost, and it was Evri driver who dropped it off, all nicely wrapped in Christmas wrapping paper like a present, with zero extra packing to protect the calculator and its carton, and I received it in the same condition it would have been if I purchased it in a local shop. So it really does seem to be more to with your local driver's rather than anything else with the Hermes Group.

Sounds like the apocryphal "aquarium trick": to get them delivered safely packaging was removed so the glass was clearly visible - and would have to be cleared up if broken.

[bd139]

I scored on another online sales platform, a new, still sealed and in box 12 digit, 2 colour printing calculator, current version on Amazon is over £150, and I got mine for £24 delivered, arrived today.

Ahh an electromechanical spreadsheet 

So... you're saying she was born with The Knack...?

Poor thing... she will be doomed to forever know better, and cursed to stand by helpless, as those around her repeat the lessons of history, never learning from them... 

Clearly. On top of that she's school tech support. As if that wasn't enough, she's applying for a summer job at the local Apple Store as well 

Spent a couple of hours in LTspice this evening. It's refreshing to be back in there again rather than dealing with solicitors, boxes of shite and politics!

[Specmaster]

Sweet baby Jesus.... 

That is what I feared when I saw the first photo, looking terminal?

[tggzzz]

Massive massive want, someone local buy it and mail it to me please:  https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/325173973423

If I'd known, I would have flogged you mine! Oh well.

Why don't you tell the vendor to not bother with packaging, and just stick the label on the outside of the case. It would survive all shipping mishaps except outright theft!

Uxbridge? Ask bd nicely

[Specmaster]

Ok, fleabay time.

Overpriced case for your favourite hammer:  https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/265631040410

WTF.. I got 2 of them myself, complete with 27's, leads and manuals, not parting with em though, useful backups both as DMM's and hammers 

[Cerebus]

Uxbridge? Ask bd nicely

My thoughts exactly. Uxbridge is one of my old stomping grounds but I live on the other side of London now, Anders could probably get there faster himself than I could.

BD on the other hand is about a 15-20 minute drive away... 

[Cubdriver]

Bleh. Misbehaving 745A AC calibrator. Anyone desperate for a project?

I already have one in my queue, but appreciate the offer.

-Pat