Home labs of electronics engineers?

They are expensive but cant be beat, and if you consider that for 0$$$ extra they will make what ever value you want so if you need sa a 1.23456K, that will cost the same as a standard 1K and the temo co of these resistors means you can almost forget about worring about it, if you can survive it, the resistor will still be at the correct value pretty much

I am amazed about how well these metal foil resistors perform (Providing you dont abuse them)

This lighting system is a dramatical improvement!!! Not only a question of intensity but also the lighting quality and the diffuse light reduce the shades, especially when working on small parts, circuits etc.

Good solution. Enrico

This could be a new slogan!

WORK HARD, HAVE FUN, BE PASSIONATE, SHARE

Nice one Peter!

Totally agree about the homemade bench. I rarely find what I'm looking for off-the-shelf, so knocking one up is the way to go.

Don't want to go off on too much of a tangent, but my home office has a homemade desk. Kinda, anyway. It's an old Ikea desk, cut in two, with one piece mounted on top of the other and re-covered with laminate flooring! All stuff I already had, and repurposed to make something just a little bit awesome in the small space available

I'm also a big believer in setting the right tone for a room's purpose. I feel like it helps your creativity enormously, and switches it on the moment you walk in (that's how I justify buying cool collectible stuff that has little functional purpose!). Like my cool homemade wall art:

And my handmade Luke Skywalker lightsaber prop replica (all the same parts they used at Elstree when making the props, and put together before the days of eBay):

And this one-armed bandit, rescued from a chip shop in Glasgow and lovingly restored (entirely mechanical, and an amazing feat of engineering when you look inside!), all watched over by a Monkey sock monkey (which my wife made ):

Okay, that's all totally off topic, but I'll aim to get some photos of my wife's studio (she's a fashion designer) that I hijack for all my projects! It's an amazing space.

Yeah I've had some Daylights in my  Lab/Office for 15 years and good lighting makes a big difference. I was thinking of getting some of the Chinese LED panels, what kind of efficacy lm/W are you getting from those you've installed. Also what is the stated CRI ?

John A

I certainly have Peter it's all of an up hill struggle really.

Worth while if you are in the biz of pumping for Subs

Your room looks like a Snug at the local pub back in the day excellent ..Would improve my creativity immensely hic !

I'm ok if you use it, or anyone else

Peter

that room has now been repurposed by the family members you met

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For those outside NZ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbBx4Ql6Umo

Mark

Love it