[Swansea Hackspace] Free freee free!

[Davies T.]

Dear Justin et al,

Sorry to hit you with a plethora of replies,
I am dealing with each question as it appears!

The Hung Chang meters are digital, similar to
the first gen of Fluke meters.

Yes the supplies are variable, both in V and I.
Very neat, about the size of ... no good, my simile
engine has failed. Have to resort to actual measurement.

There is only one LCR bridge, David has set it 
aside especially for the hackers. It is a flat object,
about the size of an expensive box of chocs (whew,
the simile engine is working again!)

There is ONE Hitachi CRO left, a bit dented.
HOWEVER, there is a lovely Tektronix 7603
with plug-ins which is good for 200MHz!

I agree about the R and C substitution boxes, 
no use for them myself, I always get the value
right first time.

Transistor curve tracers are entertaining, but again
not much use day to day.

Regards

Timothy


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From: hackspace-bounces at swansea.hackspace.org.uk [hackspace-bounces at swansea.hackspace.org.uk] on behalf of Justin Mitchell [justin at discordia.org.uk]
Sent: 09 July 2015 15:07
To: hackspace at swansea.hackspace.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Swansea Hackspace] Free freee free!

Cool stuff, but storage is limited so we have to be pretty ruthless on
what will be of benefit vs how much space it takes up.

My initial thoughts would be:

> Hung Chang multimeters type 7040 and 7050.
Analogue ones ? i would inclined to say not worth it

> Farnell Power supplies with 2 meters, 36V 1A max
Yes, especially if they are adjustable voltage.

> Resistance substitution boxes
> Capacitor substitution boxes
no day to day use for these

> Components in component drawers
always useful

> Transistor curve tracers
> Three HP phase meters
if these are what i think they are then i cant imagine they would ever
get used

> An LCR component bridge
one of these sounds like it could be useful, as long as its not too
huge.

> Hand tools
probably useful.

> ... in fact most of the bits you might find in a teaching lab.
We had really hoped for more of those hitachi oscilloscopes or
equivalent, as one of the two we have is a bit flakey.


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