Hi - New to forum, old geek, hard core vaper

[bigdogsam]

APV means advanced personal vaping,, sic device.
I'm an old electro buff too, i rebuild & scratch build vacuum tube radios. From the 30's-50's. Own over 600, mainly for parts. Get Kraken on DIY, we're on the clock.
Nice to meet you..

Nice, when I got into electronics TV's still had tubes and every Radio Shack had the tube tester in the back. I got into digital electronics and never looked back. I'm now looking into getting into ham radio as a hobby (and vaping). So you know all about shorts, opens and resistance! You probably have more resistance in the sockets of some of your tubes then in your rda

 

[Eskie]

Nice, when I got into electronics TV's still had tubes and every Radio Shack had the tube tester in the back. I got into digital electronics and never looked back. I'm now looking into getting into ham radio as a hobby (and vaping). So you know all about shorts, opens and resistance! You probably have more resistance in the sockets of some of your tubes then in your rda

Now I'm thinking back to all that time putting together Heathkits and when ham radio required you to use Morse (took me forever to finally be able to pass that test).

And if you ever pine for tubes again, there are quite a few audio tube amps out there, although finding replacements can be a trial (at least the the Russians are still manufacturing, and some Chinese firms have jumped in).

I was also the programming type back then. The first serious computer I ever got to use was in college where we had a CDC 6600 (then considered a high end "supercomputer" of the day) with a whole giant 64k of memory, and you had to submit your code in a queue on punch cards. I still get shivers thinking about the number of students breaking down after accidentally dropping their pile of a thousand cards and thinking about how to get them all back in order.

And here we are where my little 75W $30 Pico probably has a faster chip and more memory than that hulking mainframe.

 

[daviedog]

Nice, when I got into electronics TV's still had tubes and every Radio Shack had the tube tester in the back. I got into digital electronics and never looked back. I'm now looking into getting into ham radio as a hobby (and vaping). So you know all about shorts, opens and resistance! You probably have more resistance in the sockets of some of your tubes then in your rda

And arcing, filter caps, parasitic oscillations.
Old phantom circuits,,older repairs. Wonder about the other guys that worked on my radios. I'm very liberal about resistance, no schemo,,throw a '20' in there.
Should be infinite resistance between tube pins except for the filliments or heaters..

 

[bigdogsam]

And arcing, filter caps, parasitic oscillations.
Old phantom circuits,,older repairs. Wonder about the other guys that worked on my radios. I'm very liberal about resistance, no schemo,,throw a '20' in there.
Should be infinite resistance between tube pins except for the filliments or heaters..

I love to troubleshoot and fix problems, omg, I've gotten really spoiled with digital circuitry
The resistance I was talking about was between the pins and the socket, unplug it and plug it back in again . If I wanted a hobby with that much frustration, I would go back to playing Golf it does sound appealing in a self masochistic kind of way, especially the "Wonder about the other guys that worked on my radios" part. I did that with some TV's back in the day. If you have no idea if they ever got it to work who knows what you will find. Very interesting and fascinating, I'll stick to training dogs. Very old school robotics, no meter or soldering required. I do love fixing things, mostly for other people, very rewarding, yet my stuff will remain broken

 

[bigdogsam]

Now I'm thinking back to all that time putting together Heathkits and when ham radio required you to use Morse (took me forever to finally be able to pass that test).

And if you ever pine for tubes again, there are quite a few audio tube amps out there, although finding replacements can be a trial (at least the the Russians are still manufacturing, and some Chinese firms have jumped in).

I was also the programming type back then. The first serious computer I ever got to use was in college where we had a CDC 6600 (then considered a high end "supercomputer" of the day) with a whole giant 64k of memory, and you had to submit your code in a queue on punch cards. I still get shivers thinking about the number of students breaking down after accidentally dropping their pile of a thousand cards and thinking about how to get them all back in order.

And here we are where my little 75W $30 Pico probably has a faster chip and more memory than that hulking mainframe.

My watch probably has more memory and computing power then my first computer. My phone of course now has more power then my computer of 10 years ago.
@Eskie
Good times, perhaps people who are technology orientated are drawn to vaping looking for technology to solve their problem, or it's the need to always have gadgets, or as simple as shiny cool stuff, what a new Kayfun V5? ooooooo shiny

Who cares, not smoking, meeting great people, fun, and Ohm's law to boot.

 

[Eskie]

My watch probably has more memory and computing power then my first computer. My phone of course now has more power then my computer of 10 years ago.
@Eskie
Good times, perhaps people who are technology orientated are drawn to vaping looking for technology to solve their problem, or it's the need to always have gadgets, or as simple as shiny cool stuff, what a new Kayfun V5? ooooooo shiny

Who cares, not smoking, meeting great people, fun, and Ohm's law to boot.

There is something cool about playing with all the new gadgets. And to do it and stop smoking as well is like heaven. As long as Ohm's law is respected.

I'm already perusing the usual web haunts now for wire and a 521 to build and test on. I'm justifying all the purchases as protection from the looming Deeming regulation vapocalypse, but truthfully, it's just fun to play with stuff.

Next up, chemistry lab! Nice graduated beakers, lots of little bottles with cool liquids in them.....

It never ends.