EEVblog #802 - Mailbag

More Mailbag

SPOLIERS:
Fluke 8060A Multimeter
AmpHour Episode with the with the designer of the 8060A:
Precision Digital Adjustable DC Voltage Reference:
Crystal Heater module:
Foscam C1 Wifi Security camera:
Vacuum desoldering pump teardown.
Adelaide Hackerspace
Apple Macintosh Powerbook 165c
Turkish Delight
OBD Bluetooth car diagnostics adapter

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[AIMA]

I was still using an 8060 just a few years ago when I needed another meter during testing. Nobody had the will to get rid of it and we made the company pay for calibration each year and she got it done. Sadly about 2 years ago she finally went down and we keep her in a display case now.

[martinda]

Hey Dave, Just a message to send my thanks yet again for inspiring me, you may have noticed me arse licking earlier. Its because you have truly made a difference. Though I spent much time running a service dept I never had much time to dabble in design, I enjoy your exploits and enthusiasm and humor so much I am now having ideas popping out all over. I think you are becoming a really important cog in the mechanism that speaks to those who will become the next generation of engineers and I am sure you will inspire them maybe more than me who is an oldie having a second bat. That and YouTube becoming I think the premier medium for communication of this sort. Well done and thanks from a pommie. I will get a beer later and think of you as I pour it down the sink.

[ToumalRakesh]

Someday, someone's gonna send you a Batterizer. And it'll be glorious to watch :)

Sadly, it'll be too late to warn people by then.

[DanSpotYT]

Your enthusiasm, knowledge and simply having fun is what keeps me coming back to view. Used to clean Nortel/Avaya 2xxx and 3xxx series phones with iso alcohol-nice choice for cleaning crusty plastic. Cheap and effective. Cheers!

[hexinli]

I still have my first multimeter - the Fluke 8020B, purchased new around 1980-1981, and it is still just as accurate as the day I purchased it. While I have several other newer, more fully-featured meters, I still regularly use my 8020B. I even still have the original case and leads, all of which are in good to great condition. Long live Fluke!

[Effay]

Lol, "What do you prefer? Nipple or balls?" Dave's funny!!

[AlanLiefting]

Dave, the bluetooth car interface won't work because it is from the northern hemisphere. You have to reverse the polarity for those of us here in the southern hemisphere. I thought that you knew that the electrons go the other way down here....

[douggale]

I'm just about the opposite of an Apple fan, but I was fascinated by the laptop. Man, the effort it took to develop an OS for 68k back then was heroic. The old tools and severely limited access to information (no internet!) would have made it incredibly difficult. I have a lot of respect for guys that did that work so long ago.

[sauwercraud]

Hi Dave, the Port on the PowerBook is for external SCSI devices. Also, Balls are fine 😊
The Power button was rarely used, the PowerBook got into deep sleep when closing the lid, and wakes up when you open it. Looking forward to the tear down 😊

[matooo]

I also have the ELM 327 adapter and it works great. You have to hook it up correctly though. I use an app called Torque. You have to manually pair it, but then it connects automatically.

[jameslamb]

It's a child's toy, no wonder Dave's having so much trouble. Sagan will love it.

[EnricoConca]

+EEVblog The MAC is set up in Italian. Feel free to ask for transations.

[smallenginedude]

those fluke 8060 meters still fetch around $70 - $120. real nice meter. awesome it is still spot on

[RetroTech]

We still use a couple of Fluke 8060a meters in our test department. 30 years of use and all still going.

[electronash]

+EEVblog - the laser pickup at 48:37 looks similar to the type used in the Nintendo Game Cube, and in a fair few car DVD players / laptop DVD drives.

The Game Cube one looks like a Panasonic HUL7208, which they call a "Hologram Unit"...


The laser is side-emitting, as you say, and the photo sensors are underneath the prism block.

It's a nice way of making a more compact laser sled, as it doesn't require a separate "port" on the sled for the photo sensor array.

I'm not sure exactly which type you have there, but it looks like it could be a high-powered diode from a DVD burner / recorder maybe?

[kazriko]

I think the first time that I went on the internet was on a mac laptop very much like that. Some small business people brought one by in the early 90's and let us borrow it for a couple of days along with an account to login to the primitive net. All we really tried was Gopher and Email IIRC, purely text based interface. This was somewhat impressive back when all we had was things like Marmot and BBS systems with QWK and Fidonet networking. A couple of years later I actually went on the net for real with Compuserve and primitive Mosaic web browser.

[DanielTorresDesign]

Bobby Dazzler is one of my favorite terms these days.

[dhpbear]

6:33 - Where would 'High Voltage' be, in a Fluke Meter. Unless it's connected to high voltage?

[Michael_Michaels]

18:39 "(...) and this one sucks and blows at the same time!"

[WreckDiver]

I was screaming Turkish Delights from when you opened it. Oh how I treasure it when one of our team gets them sent to him. :)