Hi yes, you know how I said at the start of the year I was going to clean up and reorganize this lab. Well, that's exactly what I'm going to do now because look, it's an absolute mess. Check it out. I Can't you know? Just do work efficiently on here, film videos and do other stuff.

So I'm going to completely clear off the entire bench and to give me an excuse to do that? I've got. oh hang on, it's heavy ta I've got a 10 m roll of new rubber ESD Madden and we'll take a look at that. Um, so that gives me the excuse to completely clear off this entire bench. Every single thing on here.

lay down a one continuous. uh, this bench is uh 6, uh, 3 m long I think it is. So lay down 6.3 M of rubber ESD Madden on here a complete continuous work service. Beautiful.

it'll be. And then I'm going to organize all separate Um sections. separate stations on here for various things, tear down microscope, inspection, power analysis General lab stuff. um uh Precision Calibration uh, measurement bench and all sorts of stuff like that.

So here we go. This gives me the excuse: I Love it cuz you got to have an excuse like this. Otherwise you never get around to doing it. you just go.

oh I need some more room? you know, shove the stuff across and nah, doesn't work. So here we go and I do love this rubber. ESD Matad in. Oh yeah.

now as you can see at the moment, I've only got sort of, uh, fixed, uh, pieces of uh ESD Madden I've got two major pieces along here which isn't too bad and but one of the issues is a well my bench is messy but the other thing is they don't go all the way way to the back right up there. So the plan is uh, these benches are 900 deep and my roll ESD mat roll just so happens to come in a 900 M 900 mm wide uh roll. You can get them in 600 mm, 900 mm and 1.2 M I believe or something like that. so it'll be the exact length to go right from here right to the back like that.

So I can get nice deep video shots and it appears as just one nice big deep bench and that's really what I want. So yeah, that's the plan. Clear the whole thing off. Don't have any instruments like I have here now.

Any instruments I have will actually go up on the Uh racks up there now. check it out. You can really see the color difference between these and I've um, got the white balance on my camera set up correctly I hope I do um so you should be able to see the natural color difference between these. This deep blue that I've had before which I got from scrap from my uh previous company is um, the more traditional blue that I'm used to with these ESD mats I just ordered.

you know it just came in blue and this is what? I got this um, sort of very light colored blue. I'm not sure if I like it yet I I thought I preferred the deeper blue but anyway, I might come to like this so that is the difference. Hey, that's what we got to work with. At least it's shiny and new so that's awesome.

Yes, it is exactly the same rubber. ESD Matad in let's take a look at that now. I've covered this before in my previous uh bench build video but I'll do it again here. Uh, just because no doubt people will ask.

Now there's two different types of Um ESD workbench. mading. You can get the um like the sort of like a gray colored PVC ones and the PVC ones are cheap. but they're absolute garbage.

Don't touch them really because they're uh, they will melt when you put the soldering iron on. They're not resistant to chemicals, they they they. they're just garbage. Um, whereas these are actually designed, these are rubber ESD mattin and they're a workm.

They're not just for ESD but they actually protect your bench. They're almost impossible to cut. If you get a knife on there, you can't cut them. You can't.

You know you stick probes into them. You know you. It might leave a little bit of Mark but it'll come back. You can put a soldering on on these things and they won't burn.

You can drop Hot Melt and solder on them and nothing will happen to them. So they they're really great stuff. Now they're two levels. Um, the back here is actually conductive, so let's actually measure that.

Oh sorry about the lights here, but uh, this will be okay. There you go. 100 odk or something like that. you know, per centimeter or something like that.

It does have a value, but that is conductive so that, uh, that's the one that you want to um, uh, Earth and drain away all the charge. Now the top surface is not conductive. It's what's called Static dissipative So it basically will not build up a static charge and then, well, and any charge that does build up on it drains through to the conductive back on here. So yeah, and because no, you can put live circuit boards on the top here because as I said, it's next to Impossible look to penetrate these things.

Okay, these are really, really sharp probes. okay and I'm pushing really hard on that and I cannot get through to the bottom layer. Look, Look, I've already damaged my mat. There we go, but it didn't go through.

so completely safe to power up live circuits on these mats. Now this, as I said com in a 10 m roll. you can't actually buy it in shorter lengths here. at least not in Australia that I'm aware of.

But hey, I needed 6.3 M for my main bench plus I've got a uh second photography uh bench I want to set up plus I want to build a fourth? well, a fifth bench. Uh, really, that's going to be the same length as 1/3 of one of my uh existing benches. So another 2.1 M So I essentially use all 10 m of this stuff cost me about $330 Australian do uh, plus tax. but that was free delivery included and from a company called Orot here in Australia and I'll link those in down below.

you can buy them from overseas. There's uh, probably different manufacturers of these things, but if you look for high quality rubber ESD Mattin, you can pretty much tell by the price. I mean these things are not cheap, but worth every cent. And I've got myself a little helper Here he is.

he's going to help. Yeah, he's dying to dismantle the old bench. In fact, we have more than one helper look. it's Mrs eev log with San hiding, say hi, hello and one of the really nice things I've just gotten which I want to set up a uh specific section of the bench for is this uh tagano uh USB 3.0 microscope brand new model and I'll definitely be doing a review on this and using it for uh, tear downs and various things.

but fantastic. Full HD uh, 1920 by 1080 over streaming over USB Uh, 3.0 at a true 60 frames per second with 30 times magnification and a huge working distance of like 30 cm or something like that. Absolutely phenomenal. So thank you very much too.

And uh I want to set up a whole section of the bench just for this? It's got HDMI output as well which can go directly to the monitor as well as the USB uh 3.0 which I'll have a dedicated PC set up to it so that I can uh capture and stream and I'll probably like I'll attach a m on here as well so that I can do uh commentary as I do tear Downs under it. So fantastic. That's one of the reasons why I'm doing this. cleanup.

Oh please. You want to give it a thumbs up? No, no, okay, it's too old. Is it? it's fluke? 875? Don't want to give it a thumbs up? Why not these? these? these? these symmetrical oscilloscope stacking? Are they good? knobs? San You like playing with knobs? Yeah, instruments with knobs are the best. That's right.

how do you like the old? TDS 210 San Is it thumbs up or thumbs down? Thumbs down. thumbs down. Check it out. I Still got some component stuck to the thing.

uh, some melted blue tack. Go figure. And there you have it. Tada.

It is completely clean. only took a couple hours with help from San and she who must be obeyed. who is sitting over there? there She is. Smile.

No yeah, she's smiling. she's happy that it's clean. You happy? Beauty How long do you think it'll stay like this? It better stay like this for quite a while. We're going to roll it out.

unfortunately. bad product design folks. We have to, uh, unfold it. You can't just roll it like that.

It's just yeah. complete fail how they've actually package you thing. Oh well. maybe this is a feature There you go that's really impressive.

That is 6.3 M long. and now all I've got to do is uh, cut the end of it here. Tada you can just get along with a big pair of um shears or something something like that and uh, chop it off. no drama and there you go.

It's 910 mm mongr I Ordered 900. how dare they give me more? and yeah, it's overhanging the bench now. so cuz my bench is are precisely 900 long. so little bit annoying.

Oh well. Yay! and yes, there's a whole box full of crap which came off the bench. This is just the stuff from the bench toop filled up a whole box. Unbelievable.

going straight to the garbage room. ah bugger it I figured what the hell? I'll take out my uh mantis uh microscope Mount here and I'll uh take the mat all the way to the end. Why not if I have to put three screws back through the mat? Eh, who cares? So let's get this sucker out and uh, we can always. Anyway, it was a bit annoying.

it was slightly out anyway. I wanted to mount it a bit further back, but maybe I could actually mount it up the other end of the bench. It uh, entirely depends on whether or not I'm going to be doing uh, soldering under the Mantis microscope still or whether or not that new tagano one's going to be the duck's guts H don't know I mean you know you still can't beat Optics though you still can't beat the Precision Optics in the Uh in the Mantis microscope. But anyway, that's the uh, that's the mount and I do actually have the clamp on the side here I can just uh put it like that so I can just uh mount it on the side of the bench.

uh, somewhere. But the problem is, um, I can't mount on the back of the bench because of the shelves and things like that. So you know I really don't have much choice and my Um bench here is buted right up against the wall so it's not like I can put it on that end unless I route it out like a uh, you know, some sort of bit at the end. That's all too much trouble.

So yeah, I don't know I might just screw it back in after I pulled the mat across I decided while I'm at it, may as well move the benches along a bit to leave a gap up the other end of the uh wall there. So anyway, here we go. All right. We only got one shot at this time to cut it.

pair of Fiskers scissors. Not bad. they're like a pair of dress making scissors or something like that and uh, I'll just go along and cuts pretty easy even though this stuff is really you know, tear proof and uh well, you know, puncher proof and all that sort of stuff. uh, very difficult to do damage to of course pretty easy to cut.

Not a problem. Tada the deed is done 6.3 M of rubber ESD matad in that's probably I don't know like 250 bucks worth of Madden woo and it's not quite complete, but the certainly laying out the bench is sorted out a few things and I will do another video soon on my entire setup. Once it all once I've got it all done. but the idea at the moment is to have this uh area here at the end of the bench as my like a reference.

uh, standard bench. So I've got my voltage standards, my current standards, my frequency standards, my resistance standards, all that sort of stuff. I've even got my analytical uh, balance down there down to 1 microgram and uh, not sure what I'm going to do on this this section of the bench, but uh, this one here is where I shoot Mo where I Have always shot most of my videos and probably will continue to do because it'll I'll just keep this whole area uh, clean or you know that's the plan anyway and then it's got just basic, um, well, pretty decent range of instruments up here. my Agilant um 6 and a half digit meter uh rall scope I might change that with a new tech one maybe you know, ryal power supply to power things up, elect loads and things like that.

I've got a new instrument. it's a Voltec, which is a um uh x uh Well, now owned by Uh Tectronics, but it's uh, discontinued these days. but it's a Pm300 3phase power meter I don't need three phases, but uh, I'm going to use it as a singlephase power meter so that'll allow me to accurately measure uh, you know, power consumption of devices, surge current, uh, power on and things like that. so that's really quite nice.

Expect a tear down and a fair bit of use. so that I've got my variable uh, frequency converter of course. So basically here, I can, uh, power up any uh product, and at any frequency, any voltage, and uh, measure its power consumption and all sorts of other stuff. I still got my uh keithly current Source high voltage power supply but anyway, um I've got the new monitor and the new Uh Tagano I Haven't actually hooked up the Tagano microscope yet, but the whole idea is to keep this whole section uh clean so that I can put items under here.

I have the uh control hooked up to it with the pan tilt and all that and somewhere in here I'm going to put a Uh PC so I need like a pretty darn powerful One USB 3 I'll probably get my uh notebook my my highest end notebook. it's got USB 3 I'll probably re uh, completely re-image that from scratch so that's super quick with a solid state uh drive and it'll capture uh full HD 60 frames per second. As I said, that's the plan anyway. Uh, down to a Um field of view at full HD of I believe 8 mm so you know 8 mm like that will be full 1900 resolution should be fantastic.

Got an external monitor hooked up I Wanted bigger but this is only a 19 in one of the garbage room ones. Um, it's got uh uh DVI input so I can take the HDMI out of here. it's not full HD but you know it's good enough as a viewing uh monitor that one's 1440 by 900 and it just wedges in there. Really quite nice I need to brace that in place, but it's really quite neat and at the moment it's just hooked up my um agant and I got some power supplies and my basic soldering uh part down here.

Yes! I've uh uh, remounted my uh mantis on the side with the uh desk clamp there so it can actually swing out. but the problem is, you know it can't come out that far. So yeah I have a couple of soldering irons in the corner that'll be at the other stuff um, you know the um, uh, the desoldering gun and the hot air gun. They'll probably sit back or something like that.

so I need to keep that uh area reasonably clear clear. so that's our projects I'm working on and of course having a PC next to it will be fantastic cuz I've never really had a proper PC on the bench before if I want to work on uh PC stuff I've always taken it into the office which is a real pain in the ass. but anyway, there you go I'm going to call it quits and I hope you enjoyed that video of me upgrading my bench so expect to a lot of people have asking for a lab tour I haven't done a proper lab tour since um, way back when I was in the garage so um yeah I will do it once I get all this gear set up I've still got more gear to come and well I've still got more gear um hidden away which I need to put up there but yeah, this is pretty good I like it that was worth every scent of that. 330 bucks to get that entire bench.

one continuous thing like that and the color I think I Really like it. it's you know, it's really quite a nice light shade of blue. Terrific. Anyway, hope you enjoyed that if you did.

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