Hi, it's Contest time again and up for grabs is this agilant. U 1732 B LCR meter. It's the uh, older, uh B series. Uh, it's the one I did the uh tear down of and it's an excellent bit of Kit So if you want to see inside it, check out the tear down video and I posted this on Twitter on the Forum uh on uh, the blog site and on as a comment on the YouTube channel as well.

So you can't complain. You didn't know about the contest. um and uh, it was for uh, you had to be a member of The Forum though to be in it. But anyway.

Um, here it is. We're going to give it away. Live here. uh What uh.

it's going to work the same as last time. going to use the Evev blog wobbulator program and I'm going to do this live in one continuous shot so no one complains. There's any funny business going on or something like that, so let's do it all right here. We go right.

What I'm going to do is first of all: I'm going to pick a random number and to do that, I'm going to use the RCR meter itself and the last digit on the LCR Meetup will be the random number and I'm going to pick a capacitor one of these red capacitors here from uh here and the last number on there will be the number of times I run the EV blog wobbulator program so if it's five, it'll be the fifth name drawn out now. I need a number greater than one here cuz I don't want to draw it once. Four, three, three. all right.

Now let let's take four. It popped up with four. First, let's run the program four times and uh, the fourth name pulled out of the Hat will be the winner unless I deem it. uh um.

Otherwise, so sorry if the White Balance or something like that is out here. I'm not going to dick around with, uh, trying to get that working. So what? We've got the Eev blog. Forum If you haven't checked it out, you got to be on the Eev blog.

Forum It's Eev Blog.com Forum There's hundreds and hundreds of posts per day. It's brilliant. And here's the thread down here. So we're going to go into the thread and we've got 242 replies.

So that's a lot of entries. So you got one chance in like 242 or 241 if you take out my post. what I'm going to do is print, um, the page and it generates a text file like this. There it is.

It's got everyone's name in there. I Love o Possums one. I'm sure that in 1985, an LCR meter is available at the every corner drugstore, but in 1955, it's a little hard to come by. Beautiful, well done o' Possum.

All right. So that generates all 242 uh names in the Hat and my program just extracts the name. It just reads each line each text line, line by line, and extracts the person's username. So I'm going to save the page as that's the previous contest.

Let's arase that and do you want to replace it? You bet you. Okay, we've got ourselves the text file and now what we're going to do here is we're going to run Uh contest and we're going to drag it over here into my contest program. 243 names found 242 names in the Hat There's one duplicate name. It did take out any uh, duplicates and things like that.

So remember, we're going to run this four times. Okay, so the fourth name pulled out of the Hat sorry to the first three, but the fourth name pulled out will be the winner. So let's do it. and it's doing some random to calculate the winner and the winner is not BK o Chris sorry bko Chris Nice try, but your name could be called out again.

don't worry about that so that's one, two is colap sorry colap and three second last, the winner is not Wilfred sorry Wilfred But your name could be drawn out again because it's completely the random process restarts each time. So this will be the fourth time and this will be the winner. Are you ready? Here we go. Are we zoomed in? We are.

It's doing random. if I wait longer, it's not doing much more random. Here we go. The winner is Tada Dorus.

Congratulations Dorus! Woohoo! You've won the agilant! U 17 32 B LCR meter. It's a really nice bit of Kit So um I'll be in uh contact with you and I'll ship that out. So thank you very much uh to everyone who entered. Hope you enjoyed it.

Catch you next time.