Beauty. I even recognize a few pieces of the gear that you have in your stacks of gear.Here's mine: View attachment 206138
Can you revise the method you used for the soldering station so we can see it in the thread. It's a major feature and needs to be shown as a full size pic. I used a nice stereo magnifier for some time when I worked QA/QC for a downhole tool company and it was excellent and the clarity was very good. My fav though is the lens off a old camcorder that I salvaged from the front of a lense assembly. All glass, compound assembly and could be disassembled into 5 pieces for cleaning. It really enabled various angles of viewpoint and contributed to my repairs each and every time I used it which was all the time.Here's mine: View attachment 206138
Whoa. Killer lighting tool
Yes, very impressive. I have only seen one console/repair/calibration station like this that was more comprehensive and bigger. That was a metrology lab I worked @ part time. Very nice stacks of gear.Whoa.
I'm liking the fan in the upper left of the picture. I didn't see any ventilation on the other pics!No permanent work space, just a small table that I use for a variety of tasks as needed. Among other tools, I have:
Ancient Weller soldering station has since been replaced with Hakko FX951 (love it)
Hakko 808 desoldering gun
Rigol DS1102 'Scope
Fluke 8060A RMS multimeter
Misc: handheld capacitance meter, capacitor ESR meter, signal generator
FLIR TG130
Monoprice Mini Delta 3D printer
No-name hot air station and hot plate.
I'm expecting to encounter fewer DIY electronics projects in the future, less through-hole construction and more SMD. For example, I have a Malahit software-defined radio in my build queue, purchased from RX9CIM long before current political mess.
Most recent projects have been film camera repairs, and there, the problems are mostly mechanical.
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I'll second that. I'm acclimated to ordering any electronic/mechatronic parts for repair and getting them too. Not today!Well…
I have a soldering iron and some basic tools. That’s about it. It’s not as easy to repair most things as it was back in the day.
That "dissecting" scope is a killer, what these old eyes would give for that. What does one of those run?
Especially when some manufacturers guard access to service data and parts like state secrets.I'll second that. I'm acclimated to ordering any electronic/mechatronic parts for repair and getting them too. Not today!
Is that a Tektronix portable O-scope on the right side of the pic?Equipment ventilation: Rackmount fans are mounted into the rear of each shelf, flowing upwards. The uppermost shelf vents to outside. The solder station has no fume hood, but it's located in the shop which has great ventilation.
The microscope is a Mantis Compact with x6 objective. They're about $1500 new, but I bought second-hand.
No, that's a Fieldfox VNA. The left third of the bench is low frequency: Power supplies, DVMs, etc. The middle third is mid frequency (to 6 GHz). The right third is higher frequency (to 26 GHz). Most of the stuff I work on is < 10 GHz.Is that a Tektronix portable O-scope on the right side of the pic?