Reminds me of the rain gutter commercials.
Presenter: "How many of you use a ladder to clean your gutters?"
Bob raises his hand.
Presenter: "Bob - that's way too dangerous for you to be climbing a ladder!"
Bob's wife looks at Bob with a very worried look on her face as Bob slowly and sheepishly lowers his hand.
Me: "What's wrong with you people?!!"
Barry - N4BUQ
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> From: "zentronics42" <
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> To: "HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment" <
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> Sent: Friday, March 18, 2022 4:19:06 PM
> Subject: Re: BS, was Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] Spread the word -- Swap Meet Returns!
> I will toss in at least 2 pennies worth as I would be just coming out of being
> considered one of the kids. I still work with high school students in vocation
> programs and definitely can tell things are alive and well. But here is a few
> points The current generation has been told FAR to often that "this is for some
> one else not for you" way to often, My self included to be honest. There was a
> shift from "go figure it out" to "that is too dangerous" I am the only person I
> know of with in 400 miles that is willing to work on vacuum tube equipment due
> to the high voltages involved. I have run in to many that are terrified of
> dying touching 12Vdc. Let alone 21KVdc of an anode discharge tube in a CRT
> scope.
>
> To that end I even started a you tube channel linked in to show people how to
> spin up a lab from scratch. But if some one young is told to often "that is too
> dangerous" they start to believe it. This is true for anything Voltage is high
> HV or HP circuits. As well as chemicals needed to facilitate board making at
> home.
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> Yes the channel is Tek equipment heavy but I would like to get some more HP gear
> on there as well but I don¡¯t know where to start.
>
> Youtube Channel for test equipment repair -
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>
> Zen
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
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[email protected]> On Behalf Of Dave McGuire
> Sent: Friday, March 18, 2022 4:59 PM
> To:
[email protected]> Subject: Re: BS, was Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] Spread the word -- Swap
> Meet Returns!
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> On 3/18/22 16:42, Lothar baier wrote:
>> *Currently there are many online circuit simulators and test equipment
>> interfaces ( Not sure about online but many software companies started
>> to offer hobbyist or non commercial licenses for their tools at very
>> low cost )
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>? There are many, both online and real software.? Most of the world's circuit
>? simulation software has been free effectively forever.? Much of it derives from
>? SPICE, which has been public domain since day one.
> (1973)? Of course there have always been corporations popping up charging people
> for things that the rest of the world gets for free, as always.
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>? One very handy one for more practical/less academic work is the Falstad circuit
>? simulator, originally written as a browser-based Java applet but it has been
>? packaged for sane standalone use (i.e., not in a web browser) too.? Very handy.
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>? ? ? ? ? -Dave
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> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
> New Kensington, PA
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Larry McElhiney