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Home labs of electronics engineers?

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Or should I say more, caves? That's what volt-nutting can bring you into:

 

Home lab

 

Most of gear was saved from scrapping by repairs. Collected stuff over last 5 years or so. DMM collection quickly grew after getting into precision DC voltage obsessions, with voltage references and such.

Total list of gear as by today:

6 x Keithley 2001 DMM (2 still need some repairs)

1 x Keithley 2002

1 x Keithley 2000 (not shown here)

1 x Keithley 2400 SMU

1 x Keithley 2510 TEC SMU

HP 4263B (LCR Meter)

HP 33120A ARB 15MHz

Tektronix CSA7404 with pair of P7380 probes  TCA-1MEGTCA-1MEG some P6245's

Tektronix TLA714 with TLA7AA4 and set of probes (P6810, 2 x P6860, some mictor adapters, etc)

EDC MV106 DC Voltage standard (+-30ppm)

Few selfmade LM399 and Linear LTZ1000 stable references

ESI DB52 decade resistor

ERSA ICON1 soldering iron

Bunch of Vishay Precision Group 0.2ppm resistors for testing/calibration.

 

What drives you? Do you have homelab? Reveal your bunkers image

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  • Mine's not really set up for electronics so my "clean room" is the kitchen table. Here's a fairly recent picture before I finished fixing the armoured cabling and sockets.

     

    From left to right you can see, pillar drill with selection of vices, grinder, mini anvil, Prazi MD200 lathe and an angle grinder stand which I've still not tried out and swivel vice.

    Freshly varnished birdbox painted by my daughter handing from the ceiling.

    All of the benches and storage you see, I've made.

     

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    Here's the workshop shortly after I put the new roof on. It's double skinned with insulation, multiwall polycarbonate for skylight. Two layers of felt on top to keep the rain out. Single phase power runs from the house.

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    Test equipment is kind of limited to a multimeter (below) and whatever LEDs I have to hand.

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  • in reply to Workshopshed

    Hi Andy,

     

    Lol. LEDs are in some ways the ultimate test tool all round : ) So compact, and so many uses in troubleshooting : ) since they don't load some circuits much at all (less than an analog multimeter!).

    Other easy-to-obtain test tools are a radio, and an audio amplifier, and any microcontroller board for general circuit stimulation and capturing data. I like use of a clock as a test tool - very much a 'What would MacGyver do'

    method of rapidly deploying equipment nearby to solve test problems.

  • in reply to shabaz

    You could probably string up a little something on a bit of Vero or similar  have a cheap FM module or even a few transistors and make  an AM/FM Radio then a cheep 386 for an Audio amp  have some jumpers going into the amp so you could choose your source etc. All cheap quick and dirty whilst been a learning tool for the "new players".

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  • in reply to shabaz

    You could probably string up a little something on a bit of Vero or similar  have a cheap FM module or even a few transistors and make  an AM/FM Radio then a cheep 386 for an Audio amp  have some jumpers going into the amp so you could choose your source etc. All cheap quick and dirty whilst been a learning tool for the "new players".

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