Johnny_B_Goode An interesting use of the phrase, "Works great" ;-) . . . . . . . . I guess you must have been attracted by the "Get double review points if you are one of the first 3 reviews published!" promise and... An interesting use of the phrase, "Works great" ;-) . . . . . . . . I guess you must have been attracted by the "Get double review points if you are one of the first 3 reviews published!" promise and decided to play it 'safe'. , , , , , I'm assuming you're a well seasoned BG products reviewer in making this assumption. ;-) , , , , , , , JBG 2020-07-02 See more

Johnny_B_Goode After 8 months of use, I can now recommend it both for durability and its excellent (perhaps just a little TOO excellent) non-slip properties. When cleaning the debris of solder blobs and splashes and... After 8 months of use, I can now recommend it both for durability and its excellent (perhaps just a little TOO excellent) non-slip properties. When cleaning the debris of solder blobs and splashes and bits of wire off, it's best to use a stiffish paint brush since the usual sweep with a bare hand that was so effective with my much abused anti-static mat, meets with very high resistance from its high friction surface. The more stubborn solder blobs and splashes are readily loosened and moved by using the brush pointed in the direction of motion (i.e. the "wrong way round"). When using the brush this way, it's best to support the bristles in your hand (I use a 2 1/2 inch pure bristle paintbrush for this task). Once the debris is loosened off, a gentle brushing motion with the bristles vertical will allow you to sweep it to the edge and into a suitably placed receptacle (i.e. a waste paper bin). The moulded depressions for temporarily placing screws and parts have proved surprisingly effective in this intended function - some parts having remained stored "temporarily" for many months in some cases! :-) In short, it has proved well worth the money. JBG See more

Johnny_B_Goode As long as they're being "not best quality" doesn't impact their basic function, at less than 5p each, you'd be hard pushed to say other than "but ok for the money". :-) They look no worse than the th... As long as they're being "not best quality" doesn't impact their basic function, at less than 5p each, you'd be hard pushed to say other than "but ok for the money". :-) They look no worse than the three times as expensive Excelway JS01 barrel jacks (£1.71 for a pack of ten). See more

Johnny_B_Goode I totally agree but, is their quality acceptable? :) They're much better value than the pack of ten Excelway JS01 jacks I had eyed up for a mere £1.71. You get an extra 40 barrel jacks for just 62p... I totally agree but, is their quality acceptable? :) They're much better value than the pack of ten Excelway JS01 jacks I had eyed up for a mere £1.71. You get an extra 40 barrel jacks for just 62p more and they seem to be the same (or possibly even better) quality. At just 4.67p each, you can never have too many (even if a bag of fifty _is_ way too many!) :-) See more

Johnny_B_Goode How many lifetimes' are you planning for? I reckon this many will become part of your great grandchildren's "inheritance", never mind your children's inheritance. :)

Johnny_B_Goode Almost forgot, thanks for the heads up (I did wonder why the per unit price was lower than the 3 and 5 pack unit price) and your very sound advice regarding rebuilding these in line terminators with 1... Almost forgot, thanks for the heads up (I did wonder why the per unit price was lower than the 3 and 5 pack unit price) and your very sound advice regarding rebuilding these in line terminators with 1206 smd resistors. Now I know what size (1206) 100 and 200 ohm smd resistors to order for future upgrades. ;) BTW, you do realise that the internal 15 to 20 pF capacitance loading of a typical 1M ohm 'scope input will mess up the impedance matching once you go beyond 100MHz? I was looking for (specifically) 50 ohm through line attenuators a few days ago and BG only appeared to have those horrible black plastic shrouded Cleque terminators on offer - no sign of these (branded or not) in line terminators. In the end I decided I'd be just as well off with my BNC T adapters with dummy loads acquired from when 'Cheapernet' LAN cabling was 'a thing' (I hate throwing stuff out just because it's gone out of fashion or simply superceded by later developments - in this case, I knew I'd likely find exactly the same use in another application or context). I'm pretty certain the 'cheapernet' terminators I have are no better than these in line terminators. I'm going to order a pack of two of these 'Y1078 50Ω BNC Male To Female Plug High Frequency Test Sockets' since they're a less cumbersome way to terminate a proper 50 ohm impedance 'scope probe cable' when trying to measure noise and ripple on 5 and 12 volt dc rails powered from buck or boost converters (temporarily solder an SMA female socket to the DUT with the centre pin connected to the 5 or 12 volt rail via a 100nF small ceramic chip capacitor with optional 10K resistor in parallel to allow the dc voltage to be measured with a DMM - easy enough to allow for the 0.1% drop in voltage reading if deemed essential). With any luck, they should arrive on or shortly after the expected date of delivery of the SMA male to BNC male half metre fly leads I ordered a few days ago for just such testing. See more

Johnny_B_Goode This might be just what you need - "86 Plastic Project Box Case Enclosure for DIY LCD1602 Meter Tester W/ Button". You might need to trim the display aperture a little but the PCB fixing centres match... This might be just what you need - "86 Plastic Project Box Case Enclosure for DIY LCD1602 Meter Tester W/ Button". You might need to trim the display aperture a little but the PCB fixing centres match this LC-CE tester's exactly and the box is just the right size. You can drill the required hole for the push switch and use the supplied button tops to blank the surplus holes. I've just ordered one of these cases for mine (2019-12-03) from a UK seller. Hopefully, I'll have hold of it by next Tuesday (20191210) the latest to actually try it out. I'm not planning on running it from battery power - it draws too much current for my liking (worst case of 91mA testing >500μF caps). Each relay alone accounts for a 40mA draw when operated (thankfully no more than one at a time) so not a good candidate for the old PP3 battery. :-( See more

Johnny_B_Goode The image files had meaningful names when I attached them but BG's review submission system leaves a lot to be desired (as do a lot of their web submission pages). The first photo is demonstrating the... The image files had meaningful names when I attached them but BG's review submission system leaves a lot to be desired (as do a lot of their web submission pages). The first photo is demonstrating the indicator LED's visibility under a fairly bright desklamp (1500lm LED lamp). The second image is showing the LC-CE meter kit's worse case current consumption of 90mA whilst testing a 1000μF 6v3 electrolytic capacitor I'd recovered from a scrapped PC MoBo a few years ago. It's powered off my bench lab supply @12v but the current is pretty well constant over the range of 7 to 15 volts anyway. The image quality is better than you see on the web page when you open the slide show and right click select copy to a local folder. I tested this on the first image and got a 738.5KB png image download (versus the original 1.1MB jpg image I'd submitted). Drilling a hole (4 or 5 mm diameter) BEFORE putting the sticker in place should give a more highly defined bright blue spot if you replace the original red LED with a blue one which will be less attenuated by the blue/green sticker. Although it's not essential, it can help diagnose a display problem should the backlight fail for any reason in the future. See more