dbm to volts (humax F2foxT)

On 07/08/2007 13:21, Ian Jackson wrote:

You've set me off! Just for a laugh I've superglued a few and left
them on
the bench where father assembles the head-ends. Watch this space.

:-)

Some time ago, my favourite RS 4" adjustable spanner (ideal for
F-connectors) got superglue spilled on the adjusting screw.

You want couple of RS's BNC spanners, one end fits thinwire, the other
end F's, nice and thin.

In message , Andy Burns
writes
On 07/08/2007 13:21, Ian Jackson wrote:

You've set me off! Just for a laugh I've superglued a few and left
them on
the bench where father assembles the head-ends. Watch this space.

:-)

Some time ago, my favourite RS 4" adjustable spanner (ideal for
F-connectors) got superglue spilled on the adjusting screw.

You want couple of RS's BNC spanners, one end fits thinwire, the other
end F's, nice and thin.

Oh, I have other spanners (and of the right size too). It's just that
the adjustable was so very handy (as were my RS 6" pipe grips - which I
seem to have lost). I love precision engineering.
--
Ian

"Mark Carver" wrote in message
...
Johnny B Good wrote:

In the context of disk drive capacities (3 significant digits). Eg.
7.999GB drive reported as 7.99GB or 291.956GB reported as 291GB. Worse
still is taskmanager's 2 digit accuracy of CPU% usage truncating 0.999%
as zero%!

Bugger all that, I still use 22/7 for Pi.

Far as I'm concerned if a cable drum is 300mm across there's a metre on each
turn.

Bill

"Ian Jackson" wrote in message
...

Oh, I have other spanners (and of the right size too). It's just that the
adjustable was so very handy (as were my RS 6" pipe grips - which I seem
to have lost). I love precision engineering.

When I showed my friend, who is a proper mechanical engineer, an example of
my engineering work of which I was extremely proud, he said,
"Congratulations, you're at the cutting edge of 14th century technology!"

Bill

On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 00:06:00 +0100, "Bill Wright"
mused:


"Mark Carver" wrote in message
...
Johnny B Good wrote:

In the context of disk drive capacities (3 significant digits). Eg.
7.999GB drive reported as 7.99GB or 291.956GB reported as 291GB. Worse
still is taskmanager's 2 digit accuracy of CPU% usage truncating 0.999%
as zero%!

Bugger all that, I still use 22/7 for Pi.

Far as I'm concerned if a cable drum is 300mm across there's a metre on each
turn.

You've lost me now. I just twist my head ot the side a bit, squint a
little and say something like 'there's about 30 metres on that'. No
idea how big the wotsit is on the thingy!
--
Regards,
Stuart.

"Lurch" wrote in message
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On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 00:06:00 +0100, "Bill Wright"
mused:


"Mark Carver" wrote in message
...
Johnny B Good wrote:

In the context of disk drive capacities (3 significant digits). Eg.
7.999GB drive reported as 7.99GB or 291.956GB reported as 291GB. Worse
still is taskmanager's 2 digit accuracy of CPU% usage truncating 0.999%
as zero%!

Bugger all that, I still use 22/7 for Pi.

Far as I'm concerned if a cable drum is 300mm across there's a metre on
each
turn.

You've lost me now. I just twist my head ot the side a bit, squint a
little and say something like 'there's about 30 metres on that'. No
idea how big the wotsit is on the thingy!

In my days of never-ending domestic installs I would look at the cable drum
and know if it held enough to do the downlead I was about to do, without
having any idea of how many yards or metres of cable were on it.

Bill

In message , Bill Wright
writes

"Lurch" wrote in message
.. .
On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 00:06:00 +0100, "Bill Wright"
mused:


"Mark Carver" wrote in message
...
Johnny B Good wrote:

In the context of disk drive capacities (3 significant digits). Eg.
7.999GB drive reported as 7.99GB or 291.956GB reported as 291GB. Worse
still is taskmanager's 2 digit accuracy of CPU% usage truncating 0.999%
as zero%!

Bugger all that, I still use 22/7 for Pi.

Far as I'm concerned if a cable drum is 300mm across there's a metre on
each
turn.

You've lost me now. I just twist my head ot the side a bit, squint a
little and say something like 'there's about 30 metres on that'. No
idea how big the wotsit is on the thingy!

In my days of never-ending domestic installs I would look at the cable drum
and know if it held enough to do the downlead I was about to do, without
having any idea of how many yards or metres of cable were on it.

Bill


Did many of your customers end up by having to watch TV in bed?
--
Ian

Bugger all that, I still use 22/7 for Pi.

Far as I'm concerned if a cable drum is 300mm across there's a metre on
each
turn.

You've lost me now. I just twist my head ot the side a bit, squint a
little and say something like 'there's about 30 metres on that'. No
idea how big the wotsit is on the thingy!

In my days of never-ending domestic installs I would look at the cable drum
and know if it held enough to do the downlead I was about to do, without
having any idea of how many yards or metres of cable were on it.


Most pro co-ax cables now have the length marked thereon so you can
workout the length very accurately...

--
Tony Sayer

On Aug 8, 10:39 am, tony sayer wrote:

Most pro co-ax cables now have the length marked thereon so you can
workout the length very accurately...

Not just pro. The last reel of CT-100 I bought from CPC has this too.

"Ian Jackson" wrote in message
...
In my days of never-ending domestic installs I would look at the cable
drum
and know if it held enough to do the downlead I was about to do, without
having any idea of how many yards or metres of cable were on it.

Bill


Did many of your customers end up by having to watch TV in bed?

This reminds me of the far-off days when I used to work for a man who
insisted that I return every cable roll end to him. He would laboriously
measure every short length of cable and when a customer wanted a bit of
co-ax he would insist on rummaging through the huge pile of short bits 'til
he found one that fitted the bill. It was like 'Open all Hours'. He died a
millionaire.

Bill