Summer Electronics lab  - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: rollingstone
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: July 31, 2016, 10:55:56 am
content: Hi,It's summer time (at least here in Europe). Weather is good and it's not interesting to sit somewhere in the building. Can you show your summer work place?Here is mine, weather temperature is +25C and I'm building HF power amp O0

author: rollingstone
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: July 31, 2016, 10:57:39 am
content: some more photos

author: Ian.M
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 31, 2016, 11:18:49 am
content: Too much risk of small parts loss, or project/equipment damage due to unexpected adverse weather. I would suggest pegging down a groundsheet to mitigate the former and erecting a gazebo for some protection from the latter.A good few years back, I put aPICkit 2, demo board and breadboard in a VHS cassette box, to have something the size of a paperback book I could take on holiday and get my electronics/microcontroller 'fix', with no more equipment than a pocket tool kit including soldering iron and DMM + a WinXP netbook, both of which I would be taking anyway

author: xrunner
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 31, 2016, 11:51:45 am
content: Quote from: rollingstone on July 31, 2016, 10:55:56 amMy summer workplace? Right where it is now, in my air conditioned house. It's 100 deg F outside these days and I sweat just going out to the mailbox!

author: Psi
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 31, 2016, 12:16:11 pm
content: It's winter here at the moment, and currently hailing outside.I think i will keep my test equipment indoors for now

author: komet
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 31, 2016, 12:53:05 pm
content: Does anyone sell ESD safe garden furniture? I sense a gap in the market...

author: GreyWoolfe
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 31, 2016, 03:46:57 pm
content: Quote from: xrunner on July 31, 2016, 11:51:45 amYeah, me too. Heat index is in the 108F range. The hell with working outside. Air conditioned office in air conditioned house and if work takes me outside house, air conditioned company van.SWMBO and I took the dogs for a mile walk around the sub division last night at 8:15 and I was pouring sweat off buy the time we got back home.

author: FuzzyOnion
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: July 31, 2016, 05:19:14 pm
content: Quote from: xrunner on July 31, 2016, 11:51:45 amSeconded. I didn't lose anything outside - no reason to be out there - bugs, gusts of wind and the never-ending heat/humidity. Wonder what would happen to a darker blue Tek scope sitting in the sun?

author: rrinker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 31, 2016, 06:21:50 pm
content: While not electronics, a few years ago before I moved to my house, I was sitting outside working on some details and painting of some model railroad rolling stock and I had this little buddy show up to help me. This photo is NOT zoomed in, from my iPhone, that's how close he came and was not scared when I moved the phone down to take a picture - in fact it's more like he posed. Luckily he did not make off with any of my rolling stock. Had I been working on electronics - I'm sure some components may look too much like a nut.

author: Urs42
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: August 09, 2016, 11:39:27 am
content: This was my electronics lab athttps://www.emfcamp.org/obviously the Mallet isn't used for electronics, it was a bit windy that day.

author: JPortici
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 09, 2016, 11:48:03 am
content: Why not? One never know when he'll need a widlarizerNo Outdoor lab. It's another beautiful day so i'll grab a beer and a book and go outside

author: Electronoooob
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: August 16, 2016, 07:13:49 pm
content: Quote from: xrunner on July 31, 2016, 11:51:45 amAir conditioning here also, which is fairly unusual for the United Kingdom as it's nearly always cold... but I couldn't resist and bought one for a single room and its lovely. That said, the outdoors sunshine does have an appeal of if its own I guess ;p

author: eugenenine
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 16, 2016, 10:30:15 pm
content: I've been thinking of fixing up something likehttp://www.benchworks.be/tipstricks.htmlbut an electronic workbench