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  • Date Created: 10 Mar 2020 5:51 PM Date Created
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Cool Tools Kit Awards 2020

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Hello Community, and happy March to all of you!

 

Some of you might be thinking to yourselves - what is Cool Tools? Isn't that a bit familiar? And indeed it is. We ran a fun campaign nearly two years ago to talk about awesome tools as a sneaky way to get you all to show us your work benches (check out the original post here: Cool Tools Bench Awards 2018.) We originally thought about doing this annually, but last year we got caught up in an endless winter here in the Chicago offices that left us wanting anything but to think about the cold. However, now that we have experienced our first actual spring day, we have de-thawed, and we're excited to bring you the Cool Tools Kit Awards 2020!

 

What is the Kit Awards?

 

Previously, we asked the Community to share their work benches but now we're curious - if you could only have one kit for the rest of your life - let's call it your desert island kit - what would be in it? Is there a particular tool that has outlasted all others? Is there some indispensable piece of equipment that, if you were to lose it, would be cause for tearing out your hair (as if sorrow would be made less by baldness?)

 

In the comments below, we want you to tell us about your desert island kit - show us in pictures or video, go into as much detail as you want to tell us what would be in it and why. If you don't want to talk about an entire kit, pick out one of your Cool Tools and describe it under categories such as:

 

  • Oldest Friend (tool that you've had the longest)
  • The Most Reliable (the tool you use most often)
  • Weapons Rack (the tool that you'd proudly put on display if you had to)
  • Dream Tool (a tool that either you don't believe exists, or for whatever reason you've never purchased)
  • Or, make up your own category to talk about a tool that you think everyone should have in their kit!

 

What's in it for me?

 

We're giving everyone on the Community through the end of March to leave comments on this post for a chance to win some great tools from our revamped Multicomp Pro line (like the ones below) as well as from others by some of our great partners like Flir, Fluke, Knipex, Klein and others.

 

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Then, every Friday in April we'll be picking some winners from the comments below to win prizes. All you need to do is tell us about your desert island kit or one of your favorite tools. To make it even more fun, our Multicomp Pro team has agreed to put together a great prize pack to whoever comes up with what they think is the coolest of the Cool Tools Desert Island Kits! So have some fun with this and leave your comments below. You have all of March to get in your comments, so no need to beware the Ides.

 

We're so excited to see what you all come up with!

 

Want another way to get your hands on some of these Cool Tools? Check out out the RoadTests & Reviews space where rscasny will be launching RoadTests for some of these items. Apply for the first one here: Cool Tools 2020: USB Soldering Iron

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  • dougw
    dougw over 5 years ago +17
    It is surprisingly hard to pick a favorite tool, but it is a lot of fun recalling all the great tools and trying to compare them. I am first going to narrow it down to just 3 candidates and even that was…
  • genebren
    genebren over 5 years ago +13
    Tool Kit Over the past two years, I have built well over 250 boards from within my Office/shop. The vast majority of these boards were built for clients, but a fair number have been for my own projects…
  • colporteur
    colporteur over 5 years ago +12
    On reading the post, I looked over at my tool box and immediately thought, I can't live without my Romex Wire Stripper. That is what it was called some 30 years ago when I bought it. An Google search returns…
  • weiwei2
    weiwei2 over 3 years ago in reply to weiwei2

    finaly the pandamic is lessen and people starts to travel. The power supply has evolved too. Now, we start to use li-ion battery in a casing fitted with battery charger board and dc-dc boost up regulator become power supply. most of these modules comes with current measurement and is handy to mreasure power consumption of the device that we are powering up. image

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  • meera_hussien
    meera_hussien over 4 years ago

    Hope everything is fine. In Malaysia, the cases are rising since last week. Currently, we are seeing new cases about 700 to 800 per day. Hope things will get betterr soon.

     

    Stay  SAFE

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  • weiwei2
    weiwei2 over 5 years ago

    area surrounding me has pandamic 2nd wave but successfully contained ever since and at least not spreading. government has just announced extension of restricted MCO till end of year and ban citizen from a few countries from entering. This new norm is longer than i originally expected. But start to learn to be patient with the new norm and the other consequence. surprisingly most shipping has recovered to near prior to pandemic distribution speed, although there are some shipment company that has becomes slower.

     

    kudos for every party who has trying to make things work as normal as possible during this new norm period, guess it will stay on much longer

    here the multinational factories start to offer their employee to buy ergonomic chair and desk to work from home

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  • Fred27
    Fred27 over 5 years ago

    I'd assumed that this had become a victim of Covid-19 and fizzled out. E14 have done a great job of continuing pretty much as normal during these crazy time - at least as seen from the outside. You can't be too critical is the odd thing was let slide. (I don't mean e14mindi by the way, although I'm now wondering if she might have been furloughed.)

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  • dougw
    dougw over 5 years ago in reply to meera_hussien

    It looks like we are setting a record for the longest delay in prize shipping....image

    e14mindi hasn't been active on the forum for quite a while. Hope she is alright.

    I wonder if  this contest will just evaporate or if someone else will get it back on the agenda.

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  • meera_hussien
    meera_hussien over 5 years ago

    Hi e14mindi,

     

    Good day. Would like to know if there is any updates on the prizes for the cool tool award.

     

    Thank you.

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  • Fred27
    Fred27 over 5 years ago in reply to dougw

    I don't think so. I'm assuming that Covid-19 is making things difficult at the moment. There was quite a delay in being able to ship out the Cmod S7s for the road test for instance.

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  • dougw
    dougw over 5 years ago

    e14mindi I am curious to know if any prizes were awarded for this cool contest and if so what the prizes were.

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  • maxpowerr
    maxpowerr over 5 years ago

    It seems to me that the main tools are hands and head. Because the tools are not eternal, they age and break.

     

    But seriously, I would take a lightsaber.

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    Can be used to cut bagels

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    It can also be used for cutting of plants

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    Cooled coffee can be warmed up again

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    You can cut down big trees easily!

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    And much more.....

     

    A very convenient thing, ask any Jedi.

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  • DaveLTX
    DaveLTX over 5 years ago

    Weapons Rack/Oldest Friend

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    I used to roll with 2x 936 clone stations and a very old Lodestar 8202 "lab power supply" back in 2012 or so, that melted its transformer primary so a few years back I got a adjustable switcher which turned out to actually work and not be dangerous and it didn't have bad ripple either.

     

    The only oldest friend here is my VC8145 DMM which worked better and longer than anyone at EEVblog would have ya believe.

    Ever since I switched from retrofitted 936s with 936 heaters and circuit boards I have bought a T12 station that uses hakko T12 tips which has been nothing short of amazing, I spent way less time being annoyed at my desoldering work not coming off and way more time actually soldering.

    I have went through several 858Ds like this is the 3rd one since 2012, this one has been really solid. The ones without atmel chips (samsung chips) would stop working entirely!

    Also I use UT61E even though I have a U1273AX mainly because the u1273ax's screen has since gone dark.

    It's been one hell of a journey for me from my humble beginning days and now I do a lot of analog engineering work for guitar pedals and amps as well as hifi. That VC8145 has seen through it all!

     

    I would say element14 has been instrumental in my journey from the early days of my hobby that i put all my time into.

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