Detecting the outer foil of a non-polarized cap

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Offline Paul Birkeland

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Reply #15 on: June 30, 2015, 07:39:19 AM
Quote from: EarWorm on June 29, 2015, 07:46:24 PM
This was an interesting vid
I don't think he has enough test gear to be trustworthy...

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Reply #16 on: June 30, 2015, 07:59:19 AM
I've known guys with that much test gear and more. I've had five times that, mostly inherited, in the past. It took years to get rid of it all. It's a particularly odd obsession. Usually half of it is obsolete and doesn't work right and they really only use about 1/10 of it.

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Reply #17 on: June 30, 2015, 08:02:08 AM
Paul,

Did you count the oscilloscopes?  I see 11. 

The one he uses is the same Tektronix that I used in school.  It is tubed.


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Reply #18 on: June 30, 2015, 10:46:31 AM
Quote from: Caucasian Blackplate on June 30, 2015, 07:39:19 AM
I don't think he has enough test gear to be trustworthy...

I just happened to see his vid on his lab about an hour before I checked this post.  He has a few rooms going. 

Sony 8FC-69WA AM/FM Digimatic Flip Clock Radio Circa 1971. 
1962 RCA Victor 4 Volt Superheterodyne AM Radio With ear Jack & plastic ivory ear piece.   What?

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Reply #19 on: June 30, 2015, 11:33:26 AM
I'm impressed that all the stuff works. I still suspect he never uses some of it.

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Reply #20 on: June 30, 2015, 02:47:01 PM
The vintage bug bites softly at first.   


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Reply #21 on: June 30, 2015, 07:14:33 PM
Quote from: Grainger49 on June 30, 2015, 08:02:08 AM
Paul,

Did you count the oscilloscopes?  I see 11. 

Yeah, you really need that 12th scope to get the job done!

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Reply #22 on: July 01, 2015, 04:00:59 PM
This might be that 12 th scope.   Looks like a beauty too. Over 100 vacuum tubes.

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Reply #23 on: July 01, 2015, 11:35:17 PM
I know them well.  I have many, many hours using them for measurements of all kinds.

They also came with a small roll of sliver solder (the "L" is not pronounced) inside them.  Techs would pop them open and take the solder.


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Reply #24 on: July 02, 2015, 05:56:48 AM
I've always pronounced it without the "L" myself. I just thought that was how it was pronounced, until I began to notice that Canadians and some other English speaking folk pronounce the"L".

 Now I cannot pronounce the word at all.

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Reply #25 on: July 02, 2015, 07:08:11 AM
I should have said here we don't pronounce the L.  Well some guys do and they also pronounce the L in salmon also.


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Reply #26 on: July 02, 2015, 07:14:17 AM
I pronounce it like the "American English" sample here http://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/british/silver which clearly pronounces the L to my ears.  I'm confused?

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Reply #27 on: July 02, 2015, 08:57:45 AM
Solder, not silver. ;)

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Reply #28 on: July 02, 2015, 09:18:13 AM
Ooh right. Still cant hear it without an L, even when i say it with an american accent :)

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Reply #29 on: July 02, 2015, 09:27:38 AM
It's kind of like the way you put an invisible "I" in aluminum.

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