Ebay Component tester

Searching the archive via Goggle Groups has become a real butt-hurt activity so would you please be kind enough to post a link? Thanks.

In article , Apellation Controlee writes

Glad you like it.

It's this one if others want a look.

Google has become almost unusable since it's last 'improvement' - why they can't just leave things as they are is beyond me - all this 'progress' just for the sake of it and it gets worse each time they f*ck about with it - I used to use their advanced image search, which is now complete bollocks as it finds loads of stuff, most of which is not even vaguely related to the search terms, and censored into oblivion

I reckon they have to keep changing the search facility to conceal the fact that they've ditched heaps of the archived messages.

Tim

I've tried searching for the post from Dave Plowman via the groups search, sorted by date. It goes back to Jan 12th 2013, then the next post is from Sept 2004....so either Dave had a nine year sabbatical or google is s**te.

I can't link to the Usenet post because Google :( But I see Dave has posted the Ebay link now.

Lee

Yes They now want to force all users of their email to use Chrome or a later version of IE than xp has. and XP still has a significant market share. Most of their most recent pages are their own brand of html and hence produce strange results in other browsers, and they also are writing us blind out as they gave up making all their stuff accessible and built in a new voice for their Chrome browser instead. Brian

In article , Phil L writes

Oh, it's not just me then. I wish they'd stop titting about with stuff.

I use TinEye for image searches.

Not the former. ;-)

Tim

The tester or a butt-hurt activity :-)

NT

En el artículo , whisky-dave escribió:

I'll let you choose :)

Link? Best I can find is $29:

Theo

What is an ESR? HN

Explained in context here:

Stands for Equivalent Series Resistance, in a capacitor. The device which measures it is commonly known as an ESR meter. They used to be fiendishly expensive.

Many things these days which basically run off DC like electronics use a switch mode power supply to 'transform' mains to low volt DC. Older devices used a transformer and rectifier, etc.

Some of the capacitors in a SMPS are under considerable stress and are likely the first thing to fail. You could sort this by simply replacing them all - but an ESR meter tests them so speeds things up considerably, as well as saving money.

Well, it could be Eric S. Raymond. Or, in this case, Effective Series Resistance.