just caught this one.. my head exploded when I saw the Michigan postcard - I live half an hour from Manistique! Hmmm, a Manistique postcard from Sweden sent to Australia and seen in Michigan. Full circle (around the world in 30 megabytes?) Cheers mate!
The PCB is a car radio. RF for antenna, the DIN plug is for the CD changer, or XM hookup. The Big IC is the amp and the multi pin connector above the blade fuse is the connection to the vehicle wiring harness (power, wake, speaker, etc.)
Maximilian Mustermann No, you are right but I've read that the original Santa Claus wore green clothes, so Coca Cola changed that to red and the rest as you may know is (marketing) history
10:38 -- That might be an FM tuner from an in-dash car navigation system. Older BMWs had something similar where the whole radio/nav system came in three parts, the in dash monitor, the tuner, and the DVD drive for the map data.
I bought a SR-10 back in 1973 ( $149 ). I used it when I went to Wisconsin School of Electronics. They were using slide rulers and I hated them. The SR-10 instruction manual had equations to calculate the trig functions.
That last car on the postcard is a chevy bel air... I almost facepalmed when I heard don't know what that one is, but perhaps they never were common in australia. Here in the USA they are very coveted collecters items and a single piece of chrome trim in rough shape and need of refinishing can cost hundreds to upwards of a thousand dollars for one of those.
The Board in the beginning looks like a kenwood TV tuner for the kvt-617 series. This explains the diversity antenna and the round connector as well as the power connection. The big round plug was kenwoods bus connection that would interconnect to the 617 "Brain Box"
That's the innards from the car's radio. The plug with the fuse below is the main connector, the one next to that is an expansion port for other things like cd changers.
I got more and more jealous as the video progressed,the mini dosimeter, 2 old analog multimeters, an SR-10 from TI (it seems that their keyboards were better back then), and just as I thought I was as jealous as possible you showed that the book was autographed by Buzz Aldrin himself.
Dave, you should get a 4k camera and shoot in that. Soon TH-cam will allow us to watch in 4k and it is super cool on a large screen. Thanks and keep up the great work.
Keziolio Yeah, but Dave is kind of rich now, he simply gets powerful computers from dumpsters, you know... I don't think I'll ever get a luxury meter such as a Fluke in my life. I once had an oscilloscope. It had one channel dead, but otherwise worked. Then it got destroyed in a fire. But it was only 20 MHz, so no big deal probably. Even then, it was a week's worth of work lost right there.
The protection plastic IS indeed protection plastic that is meant for the customer to remove - but if you let it sit over 5-8 years and it sees any use / light etc. it will fuse quite good to the panel underneath, and it's better to let it sit.
I believe I still have two SR-10s, both in good working condition...yes, the SR actually stands for slide rule, as these were designed to emulate many of the basic functions of a slide rule.
In an old maintenance cabinet where I used to work we found I think 8 of the Texas Instruments electronic slide rules we played with them ( new batteries ) for a while but the batteries drained very fast. great piece of history for me.
I've got the same old Hioki clamp meter, it was given to me by a guy I use to work with. I don't use it, it's sitting in a box somewhere. Kinda cool to see another one though.
LCD TV (28:15) - I had one of these (very briefly). I think I picked it up late 1980's at a hamfest (ham radio swap meet). It worked, but was not easy to watch. I forgot about it after a couple weeks.
My partner was worried something terrible had happened when she heard me shouting "NOOOO... NOOOO.. NOOOO" while watching the PC. I had to lift off my headphones and explain that it was anticipation of the Aldrin Mars book being signed by the great man himself, and I was in my own mind saying "no way", then you showed a blank page and I thought "of course, it's not signed, Dave's just teasing", then of course you showed the legends signature, utterly amazing. And what a great mailbag too, I'm with all the others here that want one of those ubber cute mini dosimeters.
re Nixies: Don't you have to have a limiting resistor as with any ionized gas device. else as soon as it fires, it is almost a dead short and will be destroyed? Also note that the pins had been soldered to directly (vs. a socket).
The SR10 was the first calculator I ever owned. loved that thing and it's cheery LED display (yes, I'm old enough that I was stuck using K&E and Pickett slide rules in high school and the first few years of college ).
I used to have a Citizen 08TA in not-too-good cosmetic condition...it was one of the first widely marketed colour pocket TVs, and was very thin and light for its day...it even had a clip-on white EL backlight (a technology Citizen pioneered back then). I would definitely hold on to the EL backlight module for something else if it works.
So that car thing. It's a receiver/amp chip all in one for a double din unit. I would say it's off a stock high end unit. Maybe bmw level stuff. That chip will power a few speakers, and send the signal off to another dedicated amp for some other speakers. I believe that one would also manage a reverse camera in that all in one weird connector.
Dave the car audio item is from a stereo with tv tuner in it they used diversity antennas for tv reception and were absolutly rubbish and the din plug was for cd changer
Mystery board is a car radio, mystery DIN is the connection for an external CD stacker. Sorry if someone else answered this already, I didn't read the comments :3
I remember having a set of brilliant Australian postcards which had one with first Australian on the moon posing with a beer and his helmet off. c1977? I went to live in Australia as a kid and went to Dover Heights boys school near Bondi. I loved it.
The adc chip in that ye olde multimeter is the same as the icl7106 with added hold line, or icl7116, its a copy by jrc. Reliable old meter for its era :-)
I haven't seen the geiger counter video yet but I sure hope that you read out the data from transit to see if it flew through any radiated areas, haha. That would be interesting. Battery life seems to be pretty good if it used about 40% in the weeks that it must have taken from russia to australia. Not sure if it'd be allowed but It might be possible to develop one with gps logging to match radiation with geo location
EEVblog Only regular GTO? Kidding..? One was sold almost 35 million european pesos. That is actually my favorite 250 series Ferrari because it was driving in Le Mans. California was only designed to be riches toy.
Dave,you can maybe do a video on theory of operation for that TV tuner. Maybe even build a spectrum analyser out if it? If its I2C controlled,programming could also be fun :)
Esteban This is not Fein it is Fine. I thought it was Fein at first too though. Interestingly according to this website: www.radiomuseum.org/r/fineinst_multimeter_183.html ,it may actually be a subsidiary of Finest.
I have a question . : in my stereo audio amplifier on the preamp board perhaps ... there are a few resistor looking things , but even smaller , 3mm~ and they light up red when powered on . What are they ??????????????
I have a few of them and some clones, all of them work nut no more analog stations around, I can connect a DTV converter box to them though and keep it true retro. I thought about doing an LCD mod on one of the ones that is failing though but not to the ones that are in good working order.
ElfNet Gaming Well, they go for 40 bucks so it's not such a great loss to mess around with them. Problem is finding a proper LCD for them, I got a working set but probably pushed it a bit too hard into the case (getting everything to fit again was a pain) so I sent it back, now the guy says he didn't receive it lol. What I did do however was do what I planned: Put an LCD in there with HDMI input, then plug a Chromecast in there, put a powerstrip through the back hole for the antenna and connect everything inside, only thing left would be to have a little speaker in there of sorts. Once I get that working I can run around with a little TV that only needs a wifi modem and power outlet :)
ElfNet Gaming I'm actually planning on putting a Raspberry Pi in there too, perhaps even connecting that to the DVI input on the LCD, so I can switch from the chromecast to the raspberry. Then I just need to make a few holes for a mouse to plug in and a keyboard perhaps, or use a wireless one xD
what kind of video camera are you using? I recently made my first video doing a mod on an old gameboy but even though I was using a 10MP canon camera it came out pretty blurry so not sure if it is something i did or what. also I love all the old photo stuff you have and the cool startup and development things like the raspberry pi and that dosimeter is just the coolest. anyways if you have an idea of what i did wrong maybe you can give me a bit of advice. I would really appreciate it.
***** Could you or someone explain this comment? To explain my comment explicitly: I was referring to the vacuum tube with the white oxide getter at 16:58 which I assumed you were also referring to by your comment: “that tube is dead it has releced (sic) its vacuum.” My “gray hair” reference comes from a HAM I knew when I was a kid and he would refer to leaked tubes as having the “gray hair” (i.e. white oxide getter). What possibly could be trolling? Cheers, Mark *****************************
just caught this one.. my head exploded when I saw the Michigan postcard - I live half an hour from Manistique! Hmmm, a Manistique postcard from Sweden sent to Australia and seen in Michigan. Full circle (around the world in 30 megabytes?) Cheers mate!
The PCB is a car radio. RF for antenna, the DIN plug is for the CD changer, or XM hookup. The Big IC is the amp and the multi pin connector above the blade fuse is the connection to the vehicle wiring harness (power, wake, speaker, etc.)
Welcome back to another episode of Christmas for nerds
Julian Dymer He gives a shit about religion, so no Christmas for little Dave.
Dorf Schmidt christmas is a hybrid :D
I heard even Santa Claus is a figure that CocaCola has rights on^^ (might be wrong there)
Maximilian Mustermann No, you are right but I've read that the original Santa Claus wore green clothes, so Coca Cola changed that to red and the rest as you may know is (marketing) history
René Ortíz maybe they stole it from folklore ... Dutch.. Norwegian.. Sinter Klaas - Saint Niklaus.. idk.. i stopped riding roofs a long time ago..
Maximilian Mustermann
Hi, but Sankt Nikolaus was a real person.
The red car in the photo is a 1957 Bel Air.
Surprisingly entertaining! Thank you!
It so popular because you never know what bits we might learn about a vast majority of things.
Msgtbuzz Kill very true!
Just a safety question: did you check the biscuits with a Geiger-Muller counter? Best regards, Horia.
30:54 : I'm not sure just how 'nice'ly this type of connection system worked !
10:38 -- That might be an FM tuner from an in-dash car navigation system. Older BMWs had something similar where the whole radio/nav system came in three parts, the in dash monitor, the tuner, and the DVD drive for the map data.
I bought a SR-10 back in 1973 ( $149 ). I used it when I went to Wisconsin School of Electronics. They were using slide rulers and I hated them. The SR-10 instruction manual had equations to calculate the trig functions.
EEVblog Please do a video on recommended books and short summaries why are we going to read them.
hello I work on car and by the look of that pcb it looks like a part of a car audio system as it has a stander car aerial socket on it
That geiger counter was awesome! )))))))
That last car on the postcard is a chevy bel air... I almost facepalmed when I heard don't know what that one is, but perhaps they never were common in australia. Here in the USA they are very coveted collecters items and a single piece of chrome trim in rough shape and need of refinishing can cost hundreds to upwards of a thousand dollars for one of those.
He walked on the Moon! We are all unworthy! Great Video with a great ending!
I can't wait for a full size MRE to arrive some day, haha!
Looks like Christmas under that RF can.
The Board in the beginning looks like a kenwood TV tuner for the kvt-617 series. This explains the diversity antenna and the round connector as well as the power connection. The big round plug was kenwoods bus connection that would interconnect to the 617 "Brain Box"
big classic american cars are hugely popular in sweden, especially 1950 s Cadillacs.
That's the innards from the car's radio. The plug with the fuse below is the main connector, the one next to that is an expansion port for other things like cd changers.
I got more and more jealous as the video progressed,the mini dosimeter, 2 old analog multimeters, an SR-10 from TI (it seems that their keyboards were better back then), and just as I thought I was as jealous as possible you showed that the book was autographed by Buzz Aldrin himself.
Marcon was bought out by Nippon Chemicon not much information on when that took place though.
The 50fps is so smooth that I keep slipping out of my chair.
Dave, you should get a 4k camera and shoot in that. Soon TH-cam will allow us to watch in 4k and it is super cool on a large screen. Thanks and keep up the great work.
1957 Chevy Bel-Air convertible, Dave. Only one of America's most iconic cars ever created. I forgive you though, not all of us are gear head geeks.
tfw you have a manual range multimeter and dave says that was common in the '80s
Keziolio Yeah, but Dave is kind of rich now, he simply gets powerful computers from dumpsters, you know...
I don't think I'll ever get a luxury meter such as a Fluke in my life. I once had an oscilloscope. It had one channel dead, but otherwise worked. Then it got destroyed in a fire. But it was only 20 MHz, so no big deal probably. Even then, it was a week's worth of work lost right there.
The protection plastic IS indeed protection plastic that is meant for the customer to remove - but if you let it sit over 5-8 years and it sees any use / light etc. it will fuse quite good to the panel underneath, and it's better to let it sit.
Haha banana love it. You are a great inspiration Dave, Appreciate all your effort.
I believe I still have two SR-10s, both in good working condition...yes, the SR actually stands for slide rule, as these were designed to emulate many of the basic functions of a slide rule.
In an old maintenance cabinet where I used to work we found I think 8 of the Texas Instruments electronic slide rules we played with them ( new batteries ) for a while but the batteries drained very fast. great piece of history for me.
73 back to PA(Zero)GDW, from LA6UOA in Norway!
The high tech part of the card is that is is innovatively printed in portrait mode.
one of the more interesting mailbags! great goin' Dave!
EEVblog That RF tuner board is from a factory fitted Head Unit with the din connector for a CD changer add-on.
I've got the same old Hioki clamp meter, it was given to me by a guy I use to work with. I don't use it, it's sitting in a box somewhere. Kinda cool to see another one though.
great reference to "Love Shack" in the beginning Dave!
LCD TV (28:15) - I had one of these (very briefly). I think I picked it up late 1980's at a hamfest (ham radio swap meet). It worked, but was not easy to watch. I forgot about it after a couple weeks.
My partner was worried something terrible had happened when she heard me shouting "NOOOO... NOOOO.. NOOOO" while watching the PC. I had to lift off my headphones and explain that it was anticipation of the Aldrin Mars book being signed by the great man himself, and I was in my own mind saying "no way", then you showed a blank page and I thought "of course, it's not signed, Dave's just teasing", then of course you showed the legends signature, utterly amazing. And what a great mailbag too, I'm with all the others here that want one of those ubber cute mini dosimeters.
Тульский пряник:)) Я думал, что один его смотрю из России!
Артём Тарасов не один )
Артём Тарасов Далеко не один. :)
Артём Тарасов однозначно не один.)
Артём Тарасов точно тебе говорю говорю, не один
Артём Тарасов Ты не одинок )
re Nixies: Don't you have to have a limiting resistor as with any ionized gas device. else as soon as it fires, it is almost a dead short and will be destroyed? Also note that the pins had been soldered to directly (vs. a socket).
CampKohler Yes; the power supply must have limited the current in some way. Glow tubes have a massive hysteresis and normally need resistors.
The SR10 was the first calculator I ever owned. loved that thing and it's cheery LED display (yes, I'm old enough that I was stuck using K&E and Pickett slide rules in high school and the first few years of college ).
I used to have a Citizen 08TA in not-too-good cosmetic condition...it was one of the first widely marketed colour pocket TVs, and was very thin and light for its day...it even had a clip-on white EL backlight (a technology Citizen pioneered back then).
I would definitely hold on to the EL backlight module for something else if it works.
Another fun to watch mailbag!
the unpopulated parts in the citizen tv was probably for fm radio, some of them had radio some later ones were colour too.
Mmmmmm dosimeter :) dibs when you give that away!
I like how he brought the banana after unboxing the Geiger counter to test for radiation.
So that car thing. It's a receiver/amp chip all in one for a double din unit. I would say it's off a stock high end unit. Maybe bmw level stuff. That chip will power a few speakers, and send the signal off to another dedicated amp for some other speakers. I believe that one would also manage a reverse camera in that all in one weird connector.
38:24 We were somewhere outside of Sydney, at the edge of the outback, when the drugs began to take hold....
2:50 - from a car stereo
I belive that is the control module for a single DIN in dash DVD/TV/CD/AM/FM stereo. Probably from the late 90s
Dave, I do have a larger knife to open those packages with if you need it!
Dave the car audio item is from a stereo with tv tuner in it they used diversity antennas for tv reception and were absolutly rubbish and the din plug was for cd changer
I used to have the Radio Shack branded version of that Citizen TV. It worked, but was pretty low rez.
That car thingie is a radio from a saab or a volvo.. bet you
Mystery board is a car radio, mystery DIN is the connection for an external CD stacker. Sorry if someone else answered this already, I didn't read the comments :3
You are the best and the funniest mailbag unpackier!
The back plate on the 1956 V.A.M. is installed backwards.
that dosimeter is the coolest thing i've seen in a LONG time !
Does anybody sell those ?
Tim Engel github.com/shodanx/ultramicron
The github is empty, and the url is not working either =/
Does someone has any idea about this poryect??
I used to have one of those Citizen LCD tv's, battery life was good and picture was ok as long as you had bright light and not use the back light.
Is that a blue 'Cooblue' box in the lower right corner?
gotta love that kinda spicy smell that old electronics have
Пряник из Тулы послать :-) Вот такого в Австралии точно нет :-)
I had one of those Citizen TVs. but it wasn't long before someone broke it by trying to open it all the way.
I remember having a set of brilliant Australian postcards which had one with first Australian on the moon posing with a beer and his helmet off. c1977? I went to live in Australia as a kid and went to Dover Heights boys school near Bondi. I loved it.
8:17 - That's my exact day of birth. There was some excellent stuff produced that day! :)
That red car in the postcard is a 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air convertible.
The adc chip in that ye olde multimeter is the same as the icl7106 with added hold line, or icl7116, its a copy by jrc.
Reliable old meter for its era :-)
I think it's an TV tuner for newer cars
the stick vise is quite a clever design
Did anyone notice the banana on the table after he opened the Ultramicron? Haha, must be a good counter.
i would love to meet some of the space selebs my self as well.
car radio mainboard the serial is for cd changer/satellite radio or something like that.
Video board: LoJack stolen car detector? Diversity antennas applied there.
That board is a audio amp for car with a fm tuner buildt in most likely from a ford Toyota or suzuki
Dave I dare you to try and make a circuit on that pcb
I haven't seen the geiger counter video yet but I sure hope that you read out the data from transit to see if it flew through any radiated areas, haha. That would be interesting. Battery life seems to be pretty good if it used about 40% in the weeks that it must have taken from russia to australia. Not sure if it'd be allowed but It might be possible to develop one with gps logging to match radiation with geo location
Is it me, or does the framerate drop around 2:43 ?. I know how you you like these little oddities. ;-) Great vid :-)
Marcon was purchased by United Chemi-Con.
EEVblog Only regular GTO? Kidding..? One was sold almost 35 million european pesos. That is actually my favorite 250 series Ferrari because it was driving in Le Mans. California was only designed to be riches toy.
Mr Dave, is Sagan named after our science master?? Best wishes from Brazil, love you man!!
@11:10 is it a satellite radio reciever? looks like it could be
Dave,you can maybe do a video on theory of operation for that TV tuner.
Maybe even build a spectrum analyser out if it?
If its I2C controlled,programming could also be fun :)
The brand fein is from Germany and make a lots of metallurgy stuff but I wasn't knowing that they where making some multimeter's
Esteban This is not Fein it is Fine. I thought it was Fein at first too though. Interestingly according to this website: www.radiomuseum.org/r/fineinst_multimeter_183.html ,it may actually be a subsidiary of Finest.
You will burn up those nixies by running them like that. IN-12's need an anode resistor around 15K and run on 180v at 2-3 ma.
That LCD tv was made without a back light to save on battery life
nixie tubes are amazing, i know how they work and everything but they are just a fascinating piece of technology. and cool as hell.
EEVblog my comment is hidden somewhere in here, but that board looks like it could be a satellite radio receiver
I LOVE Ferris Buelers day off!, such a great movie!
That dosimeter is very nice !!
australian 50 cents are huge almost more value in metal than the money itself
the board from sweden is a board from an old car stereo
I have a question . : in my stereo audio amplifier on the preamp board perhaps ... there are a few resistor looking things , but even smaller , 3mm~ and they light up red when powered on . What are they ??????????????
What a great mailbag!
Dave, you should look around to buy a "Telestar 4004" television... the insides are awesome.
Manny Calavera IKR lol nothing like older CRT televisions.
ElfNet Gaming I've got 2, I'm putting a LCD in there.
I have a few of them and some clones, all of them work nut no more analog stations around, I can connect a DTV converter box to them though and keep it true retro.
I thought about doing an LCD mod on one of the ones that is failing though but not to the ones that are in good working order.
ElfNet Gaming Well, they go for 40 bucks so it's not such a great loss to mess around with them.
Problem is finding a proper LCD for them, I got a working set but probably pushed it a bit too hard into the case (getting everything to fit again was a pain) so I sent it back, now the guy says he didn't receive it lol. What I did do however was do what I planned: Put an LCD in there with HDMI input, then plug a Chromecast in there, put a powerstrip through the back hole for the antenna and connect everything inside, only thing left would be to have a little speaker in there of sorts.
Once I get that working I can run around with a little TV that only needs a wifi modem and power outlet :)
ElfNet Gaming I'm actually planning on putting a Raspberry Pi in there too, perhaps even connecting that to the DVI input on the LCD, so I can switch from the chromecast to the raspberry. Then I just need to make a few holes for a mouse to plug in and a keyboard perhaps, or use a wireless one xD
what kind of video camera are you using? I recently made my first video doing a mod on an old gameboy but even though I was using a 10MP canon camera it came out pretty blurry so not sure if it is something i did or what. also I love all the old photo stuff you have and the cool startup and development things like the raspberry pi and that dosimeter is just the coolest. anyways if you have an idea of what i did wrong maybe you can give me a bit of advice. I would really appreciate it.
Established in 1942 by the Toshiba Corporation, Marcon Electronics Co., Ltd. was acquired by Nippon Chemi-Con in 1995
that tube is dead
it has releced its vacuum
*****
Yeah, that tube had the grey hair!!!!
Really dude troll much
*****
Could you or someone explain this comment?
To explain my comment explicitly: I was referring to the vacuum tube with the white oxide getter at 16:58 which I assumed you were also referring to by your comment: “that tube is dead it has releced (sic) its vacuum.” My “gray hair” reference comes from a HAM I knew when I was a kid and he would refer to leaked tubes as having the “gray hair” (i.e. white oxide getter).
What possibly could be trolling?
Cheers,
Mark
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***** The latter was my understanding. thanks
Mark Beeunas
ah without the backstorry
it looks just like a troll comment
but with the backstorry i have to agree with you your right
that udio board looks to be either pioneer or jvc it looks like a standard deck with a cd or Bluetooth adapter port that's what the din is for
the thing with a tuner looks like a AV system for a tour-bus
I like the end, "Regular .... plastic card".