Sorry for the politics earlier; I'll quit with it.
Back to TekScopes related stuff, regarding kits vs. DIY, it's the usual tradeoff between time and money.? Those of us who are not yet retired tend to have more money than time.? Those who are retired tend to have more time than money.? Parts kits save you time, at the expense of some profit for people like Menachem who put in the effort to put the kits together.
OTOH, I am considering buying a guitar amplifier kit for my son who just bought himself an electric guitar.? In that case, it will take more time to assemble the kit than if we went to Guitar Center, say, and bought a working amp.? But the cost of the kit is considerably less than that of the off-the-shelf amp.? The tradeoff in reverse.? And since I've been a professional EE for almost 37 years and have been soldering since I could pick up an iron, assembly and test are no issues.? And the dad-and-son time assembling the kit together is a huge bonus (Heathkit, I miss you from the 1970s when I was a kid).
Different types of kits for different purposes.
HTH.
Jim FordLaguna Hills, California, USA
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On Sunday, April 6, 2025 at 10:49:12 AM CDT, Harvey White <madyn@...> wrote:
For the components (sidestepping political comments), it's the same
reason why people buy pre-packaged meals.? It's more convenient for
one.? The other is that you know what you're getting, and the cost is
acceptable, saves you a lot of preparation, and it devolves to a "just
do it".
It does save all the diagnostic steps, and it does start the instrument
from a known state.? You can argue both ways.
Harvey
On 4/6/2025 12:24 AM, Roy Thistle via groups.io wrote:
On Sat, Apr? 5, 2025 at 01:33 PM, Jim Ford wrote:
Nope, David, at the risk of getting political
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IMO... I'm not sure... at this time... expressing political opinions... in the forum... is a good thing.... I mean good for the forum.
I'd like to here more about why people use 'capacitor kits' ... to fix 24XX series scopes, rather than sourcing the parts themselves.
I don't usually replace a component, unless I know it's bad.
