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author: deth502
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 01:34:28 am
content: you look at the pile of bills and ebay packages piling up on your kitchen table and think "i need to do a mailbag episode"

author: karlmag
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 02:08:52 am
content: *lol*Well, a friend of mine reads this forum *a lot*.He was quite desperate earlier when the forum was down for a few hours. Withdrawals? Naaaaaaw... :-D

author: echen1024
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 02:53:18 am
content: I look at my lab and think... Damn these bloody boxes!

author: AndreasF
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 09:23:50 am
content: ... you start calling your uncle "Bob".

author: Strada916
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 09:35:03 am
content: or you start saying. "in like Flynn" when ever you open something or you enter the front door of your house.

author: nitro2k01
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 09:41:53 am
content: When you have a snarky remark referencing a Dave-ism as your signature.

author: mianchen
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 12:26:05 pm
content: When you have 10 more DMMs than you ever need as a bloody hobbyist.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 12:34:29 pm
content: You close off conversations with " See you later" and a kizzap sound.......

author: Terabyte2007
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 12:37:14 pm
content: ... when your wife gives you that look as big brown brings another 5 boxes to your door.... when you have more oscilloscopes than you know what to do with.

author: SLJ
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 01:16:29 pm
content: When you have Vegemite in your cupboard and not peanut butter.

author: TheWelly888
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 01:38:05 pm
content: When I have just looked at Rigol UK's website and ordered a 1022A function generator from them!

author: GreyWoolfe
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 01:50:13 pm
content: When you more duplicates of all your test gear than hands to operate them. To go along with that, when you turn everything on in your lab and the lights in the rest of the house dim.Tom, NW0LF

author: echen1024
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 03:45:56 pm
content: Quote from: GreyWoolfe on November 17, 2013, 01:50:13 pmDoes that seriously happen for you?

author: GreyWoolfe
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 04:47:26 pm
content: No, but if I turn on the test gear and fire up all my light fixtures and have my computers running in the home office/ workbench, the 2 APC SmartUPS 1550 UPSs that everything is plugged into start getting a little wonky. Maybe I should get replacement batteries for the 3rd back up unit I have and spread the load out some moreTom, NW0LF

author: robrenz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 04:53:33 pm
content: When you call your newest piece of gear "a schmick bit of kit"

author: c4757p
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 04:55:55 pm
content: Quote from: echen1024 on November 17, 2013, 03:45:56 pmMy Power Designs TP343A can singlehandedly dim the lights in the room with its inrush current. Not the whole house, but still, anyone present knows when I turn that beast on. It also sings a very satisfying 60 Hz song at the same time, and continues to hum softly the whole time it's running.I'm sure you could "fly to the moon" on its quiescent current, but you could also fly to the mooninside itas your spaceship, which I why I like it so much.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 05:02:56 pm
content: You debate which meter you want to use to check a single AA cell as to whether it is dead flat or still has some charge in it, and are stuck between 5 meters in the final selection.

author: c4757p
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 05:06:10 pm
content: Quote from: SeanB on November 17, 2013, 05:02:56 pmOr just bounce it on the table and say "good enough for A'straya"

author: mimmus78
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 05:11:07 pm
content: When during a video call some friends ask you what are all those background lights and if you are in a submarine ship.

author: robrenz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 05:17:54 pm
content: Quote from: c4757p on November 17, 2013, 04:55:55 pmThe Power Designs philharmonic orchestra is one of my favorites

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 05:18:17 pm
content: Not good enough distinction on the bounce test, you never know if it is the surface or the cell making the bounce with enough reliability to check. Motor caps do bounce nicely when they have started to build up internal pressure but before they blow off the end and ooze out some grey goop and a lot of very sticky palm kernel oil. Had one do that on Thursday, and had to go out and up a ladder to the unit to change it (again). They just do not last these days.

author: c4757p
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 05:28:28 pm
content: Quote from: SeanB on November 17, 2013, 05:18:17 pmEh, good enough for A'straya.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 05:34:37 pm
content: That is normal with stuff made in China for me, you never know what nasties are inside.

author: pickle9000
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 06:17:38 pm
content: Somehow your multimeter count exceeds the number test leads you have.

author: SLJ
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 09:10:39 pm
content: Quote from: pickle9000 on November 17, 2013, 06:17:38 pmFortunately I already had that affliction before I found this place...

author: Wytnucls
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 10:35:51 pm
content: When you tell your uninterested friends that your Fluke meter is built like a brick dunny and they all look at each other as if they were talking to someone from Mars.

author: notsob
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 10:44:31 pm
content: ....you haven't read the manual yet.....

author: staxquad
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 18, 2013, 06:01:41 am
content: you've mortgaged the house to keep up with the Joneses

author: owiecc
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 18, 2013, 08:30:31 am
content: ... when the cows actually DO come home.

author: kayvee
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: November 18, 2013, 08:37:48 am
content: Quote from: staxquad on November 18, 2013, 06:01:41 am... when your wife asks "what's sex-on-a-stick?"

author: codeboy2k
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 18, 2013, 08:44:30 am
content: My wife calls every component "a diode" ... but I know I'm watching too much Dave because my wife is starting to watch with me

author: kayvee
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: November 18, 2013, 09:34:34 am
content: Yours is highly technical. Mine refers to MiniMELF diodes as "roley-poley's"

author: JoannaK
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 18, 2013, 02:04:33 pm
content: Quote from: SeanB on November 17, 2013, 05:34:37 pmnext step: you open those becouse you *know*

author: czdt8m
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: November 18, 2013, 02:21:29 pm
content: What is this notion of "too much eevblog" you speak about?

author: chibiace
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: November 18, 2013, 02:38:23 pm
content: "Hi..."

author: poorchava
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 18, 2013, 02:54:39 pm
content: When you do a teardown video of your pet cat/dog/python/anaconda/varan lizard and place it on YT?

author: envisionelec
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 18, 2013, 04:54:28 pm
content: ...I said, "Now that's a Bobby Dazzlah" to my wife about something.

author: Tris20
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: November 18, 2013, 08:24:53 pm
content: Quote from: chibiace on November 18, 2013, 02:38:23 pm

author: Neilm
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 18, 2013, 09:40:27 pm
content: Quote from: kayvee on November 18, 2013, 09:34:34 amGot that one correct.Just remember, MELF stands for Most End Lying on Floor

author: AG6QR
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 18, 2013, 10:15:47 pm
content: Quote from: pickle9000 on November 17, 2013, 06:17:38 pmWhen I first read that, I interpreted "multimeter count" to be the count of the maximum integer displayable on the LCD. You know, some meters are 2000 count meters, some are 6000 counts, some more than that.By that measure, almost everyone has fewer test leads than their multimeter's "count" specification.It takes a special kind of fetish to see that as a problem which would require the acquisition of many sets of test leads to solve.I like that.

author: lapm
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 18, 2013, 11:18:37 pm
content: When you are debugging your device and finally figure it out you can hear in your hear Dave saying: FAIL...

author: lapm
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 18, 2013, 11:23:35 pm
content: Quote from: notsob on November 17, 2013, 10:44:31 pmGood God, thats normal here in Finland among male population. Reading manual is the last thing we do after few days trying to figure device out and almost convinced our selfs its broken somehow...

author: c4757p
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 18, 2013, 11:41:31 pm
content: Many American males believe their balls will rot away if they read the manual.

author: geo_leeman
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: November 19, 2013, 12:55:12 am
content: When you demonstrate the correct tongue angle multiple times daily and continually rant about product design.Also getting odd looks from your advisor for saying the system is off by "half a bee's dick"

author: notsob
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 19, 2013, 12:59:55 am
content: An old male gender quib that goes along with RTFM."If it won't move, force it. If it then breaks it needed fixing anyway"

author: deth502
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 19, 2013, 02:26:06 am
content: Quote from: notsob on November 19, 2013, 12:59:55 amthat quote reminded me of the engineering flow chart.

author: Bored@Work
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 19, 2013, 05:45:23 am
content: Quote from: c4757p on November 18, 2013, 11:41:31 pmAnd finally fall off when they ask for directions.

author: hammy
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 19, 2013, 09:22:46 am
content: Quote from: lapm on November 18, 2013, 11:18:37 pmFAIL ... whaah wahhh wahhh waaaaaaaa!!!

author: lapm
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 19, 2013, 10:13:55 am
content: Quote from: hammy on November 19, 2013, 09:22:46 amAs you can see i have a slight problem with my brain. Some times i just dont see those damn typos untill later, some times very much later.. I write it, read it, read it again and all seems fine... then later i find tons of typos to fix.Any official stuff i write, i have my wife to proof read it before i submit them. Meaning job applications, etc... Not much papers to write in my current job.

author: hammy
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 19, 2013, 10:36:30 am
content: Quote from: lapm on November 19, 2013, 10:13:55 amLike Dave always say:It's a catch for young-player... not let the wife to proof read it.Quote from: lapm on November 19, 2013, 10:13:55 amDon't worry. Maybe this "hear in your hear" was influenced from your native language?But ... it was funny!

author: woox2k
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: November 19, 2013, 02:46:32 pm
content: You try to fly stuff to the moon with 5mA

author: strangelovemd12
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: November 19, 2013, 04:23:48 pm
content: You find yourself drifting into an Australian accent when explaining the internals of a teardown to a friend.I actually thought that was bad when it happened, but the other day I started doing the same thing when reading a datasheet. That's just unacceptable.

author: staxquad
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 19, 2013, 08:45:06 pm
content: you're not getting your work done

author: Tris20
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: November 19, 2013, 10:07:46 pm
content: You loose marks in an exam for not being able to state the ideal properties of an op amp yet you can happily calculate the input bias current going into (or out of) and op amp!

author: ddavidebor
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 19, 2013, 10:46:33 pm
content: Your raise from be one of you class worst in english to be one of the best in a few months, and calling chinese supplies with skype instead of use aliexpress

author: JoannaK
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 19, 2013, 11:21:29 pm
content: Quote from: ddavidebor on November 19, 2013, 10:46:33 pmItalian handwaving combines with Aussie accent... That's definitely wirh a video or two.

author: mimmus78
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 21, 2013, 12:22:41 pm
content: when instead of buying new oscilloscopes, multimeters, or the next "for parts/repair" equipment you will end buying a new camera for filming yourself on the bench

author: VintageTekFan
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: November 21, 2013, 03:23:48 pm
content: On date night with the wife, I say "Don't turn her on, taker her apart!"

author: VintageTekFan
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: November 21, 2013, 05:39:32 pm
content: We actually play a Stepford couple on a friend's internet review show.