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I forgot to mention that ikea shelf to the left contains only tools :P
Yeah that shelf is FULL with numerous tools!
The one on the right is only for electronic components. Few compartments are already full of desoldered components 😀
I have few compartments for chemical glass and misc stuff.
In addition to that i have huge section where i store pc parts, hunks of random materials, gears, recovered pcbs and other junk.
I think i have like 3 m^3 of electronic, computer, plastic, metal and wood junk/useful parts 🤔 -
@Condor come on man!
I said that im going to display my godly workshop! (Partialy to boast about it in your face as well 😋) -
@Condor ever tried one of those Hantek digital oscilloscopes? It's a cheap USB thing, apparently. Thinking of getting one, wanted your opinion on it.
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@RememberMe that's the one that I'm going for as my second scope 🙂 if memory serves me right, it's got a 50V limit just like my current DSO138 (which is good for beginner but it's extremely limited) but the USB interface makes it quite interesting to me. That way it should be possible to save the waveforms, or maybe even control the scope from somewhere else. And for higher voltages you may be able to get away with using a voltage divider. If you often scope high voltages, or if the 50+V voltages include signals, you'll likely want a different scope that can handle higher voltages on its own. But here I rarely do any scoping on 50+V lines. Just the AC lines but there I was able to use a voltage divider.
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@Condor
I think you misunderstood which desoldering equipent i got.
I dont have the hot air (but i would like to) i have the sucky sucky heaty heaty one that looks like a normal one but has pistol grip and a hole in the tip. (100$ only)
The wavegen similar to mine is propably non accesible to you because it might be even older than me...
I got it for free from my boy scouts HQ when they were cleaning their warehouse. I got a lot of old broken electrowaste but unfourtanetly my dad didnt want to take 75% of that 😣. I wasted good oppurtunity there... I would at least get 6 HV transformators from those monitors...
Well recently i got rid of 50% of my scrap pcb collection as well because i didnt have space in my room. I wasted a shit ton of random components because i was to lazy to desolder those pcbs (well and i thought i could desolder every cap from those as well, that was dumb because it is cheper to buy them 😄) -
@Condor
You think that little usb sucker can do that? Just listen, mine can do that AND decode a lot of digital protocols on the fly, create screenshoots directly on usb, be controled by ethernet, usb (libs included :) ), HAS A FFT function (crappy but A FFT =D ), goes to 100Mhz, has 24Mb of storage (waveform display).
WATCH OUT! I had a problem when i was probing signals from usb to rs232 dongle. GND of rhe dongle is connected to negative side of my pcs psu and that is "somehow" connected to protective earth.
My osciloscopes ground clamp is connected directly to earth (internaly) and when i connected osciloscope ground to rs232 ground my gfib (ground fault interrupt breaker) tripped. Thats can damage your pc tho. Remember that when you proube AC as well! because if you connect your osciloscope ground to live wire you are going to get a short bethween live and ground! (because i dont have proper insolation 1:1 transformator i just isolated my scope from the ground :P, stupid but works -
@Gregozor2121 thanks for the heads-up. I presume that all that decoding functionality adds up to the price though? I'm on a budget here, so ~100 Euros is about what I can afford on the scope side. Perhaps if I can get a hold of a secondhand Rigol I'd go with that.. but again, kinda out of my budget range when I have to pay with my pocket money.
Also to prevent the scope from getting damaged, you can disconnect its ground. Just add a little switch to its ground wire or something like that. Others have gone with kepton tape on the ground pin but I find it a rather dirty approach.
Lastly, what's the model of your heatgun? I've had the one from KSGER on my wish list for a while now (I mean it's only €60) because I've been really satisfied with their STM32 station as well. But again, €60 takes a few weeks for me to save from just my pocket money... 😅 -
@Condor kepton tape reminds me elettroBoom 😂
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@shelladdicted ElectroBOOM and AvE as well, if memory serves me right :)
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@Condor
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You havent read the comments completly did you?!
1.1054z costs only 600$ It has only 50MHz bandwith and 12Mb of memory and limited decoding (every premium feature is 30days trail and is going to be locked after that)
I used a website that (if you give it your serial number of a scope) gives you the key to unlock EVERY PAID FEATURE in the scope. (Yes 100MHz bandwith and 24Mb memory, extra decoding, triggering options can be unlocked using that key!) (1054z already has the hardware of the more expensive model but it is limited with the key in software)
2. I DONT HAVE THE FUCKING HOT AIR. It is the normal soldering station but with the vaccum pump. VERY SIMILAR to the one eevblog featured!
EEVblog has the video tutorial on how to hack the 1054z as well!
(1054z with all upgrades is worth well over 1000$)
3. I used the power bar without the ground "thing"(european sockiet) to power my scope in order to protect it and my PC while im proubing around rs232
Sorry for my tone
Go big or go home.
This is a view from a rooftop in NYC that I sometimes get the pleasure to work from. I really like the view an...
My avatar has some catching up to do
I know it is 1 week too late but i dont care. Im aware that my workbench looks like shit but in reality it is a "creative mess"
@Condor Do you envy me now? I have 1054z that is hacked and has all its features unlocked! I have desoldering station and crappy (very crappy) soldering station. In addition to that i got simple sine/square generator that goes to 1Mhz (old communist poland tech - indestructible and great)
Situation with my pc is complicated. My main pc (with the curved monitor)
-i5 3350p
-12 Gb or ram (2*4Gb and another 4 that friend gave me)
-radeon 7800hd (*RIP* cant play games anymore 😥)
-256Gb sata SSD
-2Tb WD blue HDD
In addition to that i have a laptop
i5 4 cores, 8Gb ram, 1Tb HDD, GTX1050
I use my lap for gaming now, i even connected that monitor as main lap.
(double monitors yay!) sometimes i use my old pc for minor things but i use rdp for that, it is great experience! (my lap displaying rdp from my old pc on second monitor that was my old pcs main one 😂 i find it a tiny bit funny)
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