Warm and friendly includes a well lit recliner and a table for a cup of coffee or tea.
Harvey
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On 9/19/2024 5:53 PM, Radu Bogdan Dicher wrote:
As a general observation - how incredibly?useful this conversation has turned out. As with just about any conversations here. All this is making me think and rethink my bench and workspace configuration. Some great ideas, best practices, "do nots," etc.
I personally think I have a great "working model" - and some visiting friends were very positive of what I did with my limited space, so I may have hopefully?inspired?others (they said as much) - but there's always a lot of "room" for improvement (no pun intended).
One criteria that is very important to me is how warm and friendly this space is. I'd absolutely not trivialize that aspect. To most of us, I think it's just this "safe space" where we feel great having fun with our hobby (for all of us, very serious hobby!). A contorted, dysfunctional, hostile space does no one any favors.
Light is another aspect to consider. I am currently using very bright LEDs (there's no such?thing as too much light at the bench!), but EMI and other garbage and noise is a terrible byproduct of that. A whole lot of money and time can be spent on just mitigating that. And when you align FM tuners (uV of signal) or do metrology applications, this noise can be a determining factor.
Radu.
On Thu, Sep 19, 2024 at 2:41?PM Wilko Bulte via groups.io <> <wkb@...> wrote:
As for magnetic influence: keep your Rb reference oscillators away
from magnetic fields. It probably does not show in everyday use
but the Rb units are susceptible to magnetic fields.
Wilko
