I should have asked an expert prior to commenting.
Lesson learned.

 

*knocks on wood*

TPS was replaced and reset ODB codes Friday afternoon after work. So far zero issues. Might be placebo effect but the throttle feels a bit more responsive. Car always goes in to overrun now. It's kinda nice having a normal car for this long But of course my innovate wb sensor is going out, gets stuck on 'HTR' and never comes online. Win some, lose some.

 

If any of you are shopping for a new oscilloscope....

A New Era in Scopes | Tektronix

/shameless plug

 

^ I'm sure it'll be reasonably priced, easily within reach of the average home hobbyist.

 

That's what we specialize in.

 

That thing would probably **** me off. I'm sure the software in it is junk, beta ****.

 

But it triggers really really well.

 

Was this the design you asked me about NTSC trigerring on a while back?

 

Yeah. Lol that was a while ago.

honestly not sure what is supposed to be released before June 6th. But it's pretty awesome. Obviously I'm proud of it. It's got 2 years of my life shoved into it lol.

 

I do hope that video trigger was excluded from the design. NTSC was a pox on humanity, and very much needs to be erased from history. Wanna know why, even in the 4k era, we're still timing at 59.94 Hz instead of 60? Because some ******* at RCA made a lazy decision in 1953, and that choice has haunted us all ever since.

We still use a lot of analog blackburst for timing reference (seriously, there are 70s vintage Grassy Valley DAs still pumping it around the plant- those ******* refuse to die), but I have managed to completely extinguish analog composite video from on-air use at WPIX, WGN. We still have a lot of NTSC monitors left in service on older SD gear here, but I'm gradually replacing them with SDI monitors in all applications except for the two-dozen or so genuinely analog VTRs that we keep in service for archival use. And, to be honest, the few engineers who still know how to maintain that stuff also still prefer to use their 20-30 year old analog HP / Tek scopes while doing it, despite the fact that I have a shiny new Agilent 4-channel scope w/ 16 channel DSA sitting on the shelf gathering dust.

Video people are not your target market. Not anymore. My guys wouldn't know an FPGA from an SDR.



All that having been said, I'm still insanely jelly.

 

We have a lot of features that we just hang on to for the one person that still uses them. Thankfully once something has been done the amount of effort to do it again is a lot less.

The amount of old serial buses we support is stupid. I found a few bugs in old products that had existed for 10 years. And nobody had used them haha.

 

Yes, but it clutters the UI for the end-user.

(Spoken from the perspective of someone who has had to make the painful choice to deprecate archaic but familiar standards in past product designs.)

 

True. But I have no control over the UI. I just implement the hardware features. Marketing just sticks me with the **** to implement.

 

Joe is triggered by triggers.

 

Not sure we can be friends anymore.

Also lol at peasant number of channels

 

heh.. I've got a 7854 that I need to fix one of these days. Had to ride in the passenger seat because it wouldn't fit in the trunk.

 

Has anyone used a npt socket plug for the compressor on a turbo? What size?

Looking to plug mine vs having the brass 90deg fitting that goes to the wastegate.

 

Yes.
The one that fits correctly.

 

Guess I'll buy all sizes up to 1/2...

Can't be more than a 1/8 or 1/4 amaright?

 

That's probably a safe bet.

Unless of course its metric.

Or British Taper.

Or British Parallel.

Or Acme thread.

Don't you have a BEGI turbo? Perhaps they can help.