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Some RC servo motor thing might work. It'd be cool if people could program the valve... you could set up long temperature sweeps

77-400 K. But it would have to do multiple turns... not sure how that would work.

But I'm putting this probe idea on the back burner. There are too many unknowns to get ti up and running quickly.

I've got this HBT idea (which we talked about a little) I'm going to start a new thread.

George H.

Yeah the few, NI instruments I used I had no complaint with the quality. (just the price.) For the university/ college lab teaching market the customer base is varied, from idiots to masters... mind you any given customer can be an idiot about something and master at another. As far as instrument interfacing, I'm much more an idiot than master. (so maybe not the best thing to start a company doing that. :^)

I do get the feeling that those teaching uni labs are aware of what type of skills/ techniques are getting their graduates jobs, and trying to tailor labs for that. (My feeling is this is much more so for BS physics majors.)

I know Mr. Squid...it's been sold around to a few different vendors. I think the latest has gotten the bugs out of the 'repeated contacts to stuff at LN2 temperatures.' (Mostly I don't hear complaints about it anymore.)

But I think what you say (lotsa money, or shoe strings) is true of teaching lab funding too. Just much less money than research labs. So if I do something like this, I'd be selling to the fully funded people. And then you sell bits and pieces of your stuff to the shoe string guys, not making much, but bread on the water.

Hey Speff, I was thinking of trying to contact you via linked in... but. Send me an email... ggherold at gmail Maybe I can buy you lunch.

George H.

Yeah, Marketing.. I haven't thought much about that. Trade shows, workshops, website, word of mouth, all work.

Sound a bit like Phil H's gig.

(for me there are just a whole bunch of ideas festering in the back of my brain... you do what you can. :^)

OK do you get a lot of repeat work? That would help.

Yeah I don't have any free lance jobs from existing contacts. (Oh dear, you remind me I once mentioned wanting to make a Cavendish balance but with a big wall (with some holes) as the fixed mass and maybe cylinder shapes for the moving masses. That would get like two or so times the torque (I did the numbers once, riff on the problem of falling through the earth) And some guy contacted me and wanted me to build him one... for 50-100k or something.)

Thanks very much for your advice/ story.

George H.

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Yeah, I've got to start a HBT thread. (The blue jay gang has invaded the bird feeder, scaring the cardinals chickadees, juncos and woodpeckery birds into the nearby trees. White snow, dark trees, the green on the spruce is the same shade as maple bark.. The blue jays and red cardinals pop, color-wise. )

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Hi Michael. Thanks! I'm not really sure where I'm going. So I don't know what I'll need yet. :^) But I do appreciate the support.

George H.

We had a mountain lion near the Safeway on Diamond Heights Blvd. About a zillion animal control people took it away.

And lots of coyotes. Now we seem to have at least one big cat but not as big as the one in the pic, some sort of lynx maybe.

Coyotes have been seen commuting across the Golden Gate Bridge.

I wonder if it would be worth making a little cryo-diode adapter for an arduino or a Lab Jack or something. Then it would be a small step to making a cryo temperature controller.

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Hmm there must be a lot more wilderness in California. Here there is lots of farm land.

Hmm not sure what that looks like. But have a FET as heater down the bottom of a probe is a must. I have this dram of using the same FET as temp sensor too.. but that may be too much.

Starting HBT thread.

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