Inside a vintage elevator call station.
A bit of digging turned up the lift/elevator call station that I salvaged at the same time as its control…
A look at some digital timer modules.
There's a wide selection of these little timer modules on eBay, and while seemingly quite useful little devices for including…
An old scripting led sign i built back in the early 80’s.
This was just one of "those" projects that I did for fun. The first one that used a lot of…
Chinese solar mini street light. repair and schematic.
I stumbled on this wall mounting light while looking for LED street lights. While it's not really suited to actual…
Really old and very heavy slate elevator controller.
This is a vintage slate lift (elevator) controller that I salvaged out of a skip (dumpster) when it was being…
Vintage 1981 animated led benson hedges advertising panel.
What makes this LED display panel rather special is its age. It was commonly used in newsagents and tobacconists on…
How to use the free pcb layouts on my website. horrible audio
Sorry for the horrible audio. Something in the laptop is crushing the audio with walkie-talkie grade audio bandwidth. I've now…
A look inside some ebay panel indicators. with led based rectifier!
Continuing the theme of industrial control panel products from China I bought a selection of control panel indicators including standard…
A look inside the cliff quicktest mains connection unit.
The Quicktest unit has been around for a long time, and is used in electrical and electronic workshops to safely…
Teardown of an electrode heated muff / hot water bottle.
An electrode water heating device that is relatively safe for a change (although it relies on a single thermal switch).…