On an antique mall I did find this nice radio, little bit dirty but otherwise in good shape.
Some cleaning notes.
On an antique mall I did find this nice radio, little bit dirty but otherwise in good shape.
Some cleaning notes.
Normally I'm going on eBay looking for old server to rebuild the main PC, this time I decided to try to buy a new computer, where "new" means recently built.
Browsing around I found this little guy and somehow I was intrigued.
There are many different types on the market, I think mine is a 50W unit already assembled with 3 fans, two for cooling down the
hot" side, and one to push the cold air.
Is not easy to set up, run and interpret results of tests.
There are many way to do tests on machines, this one is open source, covers Linux, MacOs and Windows, is based on PHP so is highly portable and is quite complex to master just because is HUGE !
The advantage is the capability to install different versions of Joomla for tests/development or data retrieval from older backups.
My father had a piano capable to play those rolls, but it was eons ago, so now I have probably 20 or 30 rolls but no means to play them.
I didn't really though about how to read them until today.
During one of my excursions on flea markets, I did find a AirThings Wave Plus.
For 10$ I decided to buy it and try it out (the normal cost is around 230$).
Funny story of a trivial repair attempt over an electronic ballast used to drive a fluorescent UV bulb for an insect trap.
DISCLAIMER !!!
This stuff is connected DIRECTLY to the power grid and the fluorescent bulb emits dangerous UV !!
Working on these type of circuit REQUIRES knowledge and precautions !
DON'T ATTEMPT ANY REPAIR UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING !
This is not a usual "repair".
At an antique mall we found a Italian doll made around the seventies, a "talking" doll !