EEVblog #694 - Mailbag

Mailbag that's not on a Monday, because Dave has been inundated with 35 packages!

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Dave plays with his Rigol DSA815 spectrum analyser and some Tekbox TBPS01 EMC H-Field and E-Field Near-Field Probes for EMC pre-compliance:

Help get Peter Murray back to college:

Commodore Scientific Calculator Teardown

Philips FET VOM teardown

Control Elliott Veares's Chrismas Light using X10:

EEVblog #548 - EMC Pre-Compliance Conducted Emissions Testing:

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[Kohm]

Thanks for showing my mail Dave! The "Hybrid" circuit was made in the Hybrid clean-room at the college, they made us design circuits using thick film too but they would only let us make the pre-approved crappy function generator.

[ПозжеУкажу]

Many thanks TEKBOX company for their near field probes and broadband amplifiers the kindly provided to Voronezh State Technical University! Many thanks personally to Michael Mayerhofer!

[TheCrazyInventor]

Thank you for correcting Holland to The Netherlands, Dave. People getting it wrong really annoys me sometimes. Holland are 2 provinces in our country (we have north Holland and south Holland) whereas "The Netherlands" refer to the whole country. Thank you for pointing that out. :)

[GoldSrc_]

You should stick to 60FPS instead of 50, all monitors and smartphone screens run at 60Hz at least.

[ElliottVeares]

Except it is Thursday, never mind. Hope everyone has fun with my Grotto Tree.

[kentvandervelden]

When using EMC probes with the DSA-815, is an external amplifier critical?

[necessaryevil]

My guess would be that 'Holland' means the Netherlands, as the original Philips is not located in the Holland part of the Netherlands. 

In my personal experience, a lot of Dutch people call the Netherlands 'Holland' too when they speak English, they don't see it as a mistake anymore, but just as an oddness of the English language. 

In Dutch however, it is less common to call the whole country 'Holland'. 

[picobyte]

Those side connections do work pretty when metering if the meter is on the right side of the circuit.

[NickStallman]

No 2 minute tear down on the EMC probe amplifier?

[williefleete]

you probably needed the 1.5 volt cell for all the ohms ranges hence why it didnt work

[alextrofimov]

The Philips meter's construction looks pretty neat to me.
Dave it would be actually nice to see more about EMC precompliance testing from you.

[redtails]

26:44 "Regular humans generally don't use FedEx, it's too expensive" 

LOL

[OsmosisHD]

@6:06 Finally someone from outside who got it exactly right.

"I don't remember which part.."
The referral is used for "North Holland" provide

PS i believe the device looks like utter crap inside because it was a diy kit
Back in the days they sold tube amplifier and solid state kits, i bet it's left overs from that  in these kits

[ElliottVeares]

Good News! My site (Grotto Tree) is finally back up after my web host have now fixed the issue at their end! About time!

[winstonsmith]

Not surprised about the Philips VOM. The only Philips brand anything I've ever owned were consumer electronic devices. In both cases, the remotes were terribly designed in both layout and ergonomics and the on-screen menus were also very poorly designed.

[SeptimMartin]

I dunno about anyone else, but I reckon it would have been cool to have like a 12 Days of Mailbag in the lead up to the holidays (Bonus points to anyone who got the reference!)

[TilmanBaumann]

The new desk arrangement and camera angle works great.

[mickel]

EEVblog Thanks Dave for being correct on the naming of the Netherlands. And kudos that you even knew Holland is not the Netherlands. Phillips used to be the bees knees in electronics, tho this meter doesn't seem to be a good example of that.

[Spikejwh]

Ahhh, the old Philips meter I used when I was still on technical school... love it.

[plhamilt]

Very timely on the TekBox mini review.  Have just seen an advert from Emona for that set which I am hoping to get with my new Rigol DSA1030A-TG