Xantrex is rebadged TTi

[Chris Carlen]

FYI:

I looked inside my Xantrex XDL35-5 power supply the other day, and the
QC stickers were TTi.

Just in case anyone is ever curious, as I was, who really made the
Xantrex stuff. Not being a UK citizen, I never knew of TTi until DNA
pointed them out the other day. (Thanks, DNA ;-)





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FYI:

I looked inside my Xantrex XDL35-5 power supply the other day, and the
QC stickers were TTi.

Just in case anyone is ever curious, as I was, who really made the
Xantrex stuff. Not being a UK citizen, I never knew of TTi until DNA
pointed them out the other day. (Thanks, DNA ;-)

The dark secret behind Thurlby-Thandar Instruments is that Clive
Sinclair used to be on the board of directors. The brother of one of my
colleagues was quality control manager there for a while - he could
stop the production line any time he liked, but Clive could be relied
on to pop out of his office and restart it within thirty seconds.

Happily, they managed to ease Clive out of hands-on control before his
obsession with using the cheapest possible component did irreparable
damage to the firm's reputation, and the stuff of theirs that I've used
has been very good value for money.

No-one has every argued that Clive Sinclair isn't clever - though he
was silly enough to join Mensa and was the president of the British
society at one point - but his obsessive pursuit of the lowest possible
parts cost to the exclusion of any consideration of reliablity has
managed to bring down a number of really ingenious schemes.

http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/sinclair/sinclair/sinclair.htm

 

[Chris Carlen]

The dark secret behind Thurlby-Thandar Instruments is that Clive
Sinclair used to be on the board of directors. The brother of one of my
colleagues was quality control manager there for a while - he could
stop the production line any time he liked, but Clive could be relied
on to pop out of his office and restart it within thirty seconds.

Happily, they managed to ease Clive out of hands-on control before his
obsession with using the cheapest possible component did irreparable
damage to the firm's reputation, and the stuff of theirs that I've used
has been very good value for money.

No-one has every argued that Clive Sinclair isn't clever - though he
was silly enough to join Mensa and was the president of the British
society at one point - but his obsessive pursuit of the lowest possible
parts cost to the exclusion of any consideration of reliablity has
managed to bring down a number of really ingenious schemes.

http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/sinclair/sinclair/sinclair.htm

So are they any good today?

What happened to Sinclair? He seemed to have a scheme to make a PC
competitor, possibly based on Linux and ARM. Too bad that didn't
materialize in a meaningfull fashion.




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[Dave]

http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/sinclair/sinclair/sinclair.htm

So are they any good today?

I have three TTI bench supplies sitting in front of me (models PL3200MT,
PL330 and QL355). They work perfectly, and my only complaint is that the fan
in the latest digital one (QL355) is a bit obtrusive ..

Dave

 

[Mike Harrison]

The dark secret behind Thurlby-Thandar Instruments is that Clive
Sinclair used to be on the board of directors. The brother of one of my
colleagues was quality control manager there for a while - he could
stop the production line any time he liked, but Clive could be relied
on to pop out of his office and restart it within thirty seconds.

Happily, they managed to ease Clive out of hands-on control before his
obsession with using the cheapest possible component did irreparable
damage to the firm's reputation, and the stuff of theirs that I've used
has been very good value for money.

No-one has every argued that Clive Sinclair isn't clever - though he
was silly enough to join Mensa and was the president of the British
society at one point - but his obsessive pursuit of the lowest possible
parts cost to the exclusion of any consideration of reliablity has
managed to bring down a number of really ingenious schemes.

http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/sinclair/sinclair/sinclair.htm

Further back in history, there were 2 companies - Thurlby & Thandar. The second used to be Clive's
company that started off with cheap DMMs and a range of bench instruments including a dinky scope
in matching stackable cases. Thandar were a slightly higher-end outfit (Although Lower would be
hard...)
These days things get rebadged in all sorts of directions - I had a Xantrex PSU (Apparently made by
Xantrex) that was badged by a UK PSU manufacturer.

 

[jasen]

So are they any good today?

What happened to Sinclair?

He sold his name to Amstrad. and went on to produce stuff under the name
"Psion"

He seemed to have a scheme to make a PC
competitor, possibly based on Linux and ARM.

I didn't hear about that one.

Bye.
Jasen

 

[John Woodgate]

I didn't hear about that one.

He has new ideas every minute, like most inventors. But that one IS a
bit obvious, isn't it? Even I thought of that, around 1990, and I don't
'do' computers. What Linux didn't have was a GUI, and Acorn had a very
good one. Obvious conclusion. Linux depends on open-source code and
anyone can contribute; ARM code is very economical and (some say) is
very easy to write. Obvious conclusion.

Of course, the project was suppressed by a conspiracy between .... (fill
in whom you (don't) like).

 

[Eeyore]

So are they any good today?

What happened to Sinclair? He seemed to have a scheme to make a PC
competitor, possibly based on Linux and ARM. Too bad that didn't
materialize in a meaningfull fashion.

It would have had rubber keys that stopped working after a while and probably a
dodgy proprietary tape storage scheme or non-standard diskette size and I'm
therefore thankful he didn't make it.

Graham