Some stuff I scrounged yesterday.

[TomW]

Sad deal for the child.

I, however was like a kid in a candy store pulling stuff out before the auctioneer gets involved.

Besides being a stellar foreign car mechanic he was an avid experimenter.

Lots of hand made tools for wrenching on cars like a remote operated brake actuator so he could be under the car and activate brakes, etc. A curiously Terminator looking robotic arm he built like 35 years ago and nobody knows how to program the punch cards for.

Upside for me is I got a couple of O'scopes, a mid range Radio Shack analog VOM, a massive 120 volt to 100 volt 3 KVA transformer, some miscellaneous bits and pieces of God knows what electronic devices [likely power supplies], some electronic type hand tools and 3 of these panadac 770 power supplies.

The Panadacs do not give up much in a Google search but I think they are from a Panasonic industrial circuit board stuffer machine I got some other bits from the same scrap yard here.

The big stuff can be seen in this IRC gallery:

http://www.anotherpower.com/gallery/album108

No, the '53 Buick RoadMaster was not from the estate it was at the burger joint I grabbed a burger at on the way home.

I am curious about information on those power supplies.

They have outputs labeled:

 +5 -5 -9 +12 +24 +15 -15 volts

With an LED for each.

I powered them all up and all the LEDs come on as do the fans.

I know the extras would be useful to someone.

Ghurd?

I guess my bench supply needs are covered now.

Anyway, if you have any info on these, I would appreciate it if you share.

Thanks.

Tom

[jimjjnn]

You should find lots of uses for all those "goodies" especially the Dual Trace O'Scope and meters.

A lot of stuuf to use plus salvage components from.

Those 3 power supplies(Panadac 770) look very familiar but I can't recall where. Too many years ago.

[gotwind2]

Searching and acquiring such "goodies" is part of the fun for me also Tom.

A visit to what we call in the U.K 'the scrap yard' (Car scrap, breakers yard, reclomation yard?) is a joy.

I'm never sure if it will be of any use, but you never know - I will spend hours just looking and thinking of any possibility from old vehicle parts :-)

Good clean(ish) fun.

[tanner0441]

Hi

The power supplies look as if they come from computers circa the early 80s they Z80, 6502, etc requuired + - 5 and 12v ie. early apple and TRS80 Cromemco did a mini with 5 and 10 meg of hard drive and 8inch floppy.  Also some of the larger hard drives or winchesters as they were called needed 24v.

If nothing else they should contain a good source of large dioded.

They are probably the first generation of switched mode power supplies. Try looking on a site that specialises in computer history.

have fun

[ghurd]

I don't know what they are, any more than power supplies.

I know it won't be good if the wife cathes me bringing in as much as another $3 HF meter.

G-

[luv2weld]

If she catches you with anything, tell her I gave it to you.

Or tell her I had borrowed it, and you just got it back from me.

Ralph

[electronbaby]

i like the christmas light bulbs in the robot hand haha.