Ok, you lot. What did you get for Crimbo? 🎅🎄🎁

[salty]

Basically, it draws graphs of voltage versus time. It's very useful when diagnosing certain types of electronic faults. With the two channels, you can compare the timing of two signals.

Not for everyone, of course!

That's cleared it up, thanks.

 

[Archev]

That's cleared it up, thanks.

Aye but it cannae make the porridge captain
My secret Santa from me was a Vtoman 2200 power station- yep another battery to lug around on my camping expeditions. I’m test driving it these days by charging it for a couple of off peak hours and using it to practice powering my induction camp cooker during the day. I’m getting about two days per charge including the morning porridge, lunchtime soup and the evening tatties, rice or pasta etc and the usual coffees or teas through the day.
I have yet to unpack the solar panels for top ups -a) because the big yellow celestial target is pretty elusive around here (seems to be too busy warming the south of the planet by all accounts ). And -b) because I’d get frostbite out there trying to set them up

 

[OriginalBigAl]

My Christmas present arrived late; a Rigol DHO802 oscilloscope. 12-bit, huge screen, lots of features. Thanks, Santa!

It's only the bottom of the range (only 2-channel and only 60 MHz bandwidth), but for my purposes it will be perfect. It replaces an old Tektronics discarded from a local University, 30 years old, and the screen developed a large yellow blob where the pixels are reversed so the screen is almost unreadable, and channel one's BNC socket was loose. The knobs were starting to crumble with age.

That's only two scopes from my original, made myself when a teenager, featuring a disposals 5BP1 CRO tube (those things were long and insensitive!). Originally with valves, I updated it to use transistors a few years later. It was so big that I put it into a stand with wheels. The Rigol is the size of a smallish tablet; it's so cute.

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/nerd

So, we won't be seeing you around these parts for a while ,then .

 

[Alb]

My Christmas present arrived late; a Rigol DHO802 oscilloscope. 12-bit, huge screen, lots of features. Thanks, Santa!

It's only the bottom of the range (only 2-channel and only 60 MHz bandwidth), but for my purposes it will be perfect. It replaces an old Tektronics discarded from a local University, 30 years old, and the screen developed a large yellow blob where the pixels are reversed so the screen is almost unreadable, and channel one's BNC socket was loose. The knobs were starting to crumble with age.

That's only two scopes from my original, made myself when a teenager, featuring a disposals 5BP1 CRO tube (those things were long and insensitive!). Originally with valves, I updated it to use transistors a few years later. It was so big that I put it into a stand with wheels. The Rigol is the size of a smallish tablet; it's so cute.

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/nerd

I'd have been tempted to fix the Tektronix! I used them extensively back in the 1980s and they were top quality machines. I could still operate a 545B with my eyes closed

 

[Andrew Sinclair]

Oh, lovely bit of kit