[sdiy] eyesight - was: TriggerIdiot

[john slee]

On 23 September 2015 at 22:05, Anwander, Florian
<fanwander at mnet-online.de> wrote:
> His recommendation was: make the lights over the workplace much brighter.
> Avoid shading the devices you are working on. I installed kitchen lamps
> under the shelfs which surround my workbench. Similar like these:
> http://www.ikea.com/ms/media/seorange/20131/201311_Integrate

Yeah this is my approach too. I don't have those specific lamps but I
do have two adjustable desk-mounted lamps with BIG "1000lm" LED bulbs
in them, all from Ikea:

http://www.ikea.com/au/en/catalog/products/20249226/

I just move the lamp arms around to ensure there are no shadows.
Typically one on each side of my chair.

Really helps with those through-hole resistor colour bands.

The other thing I do is never have more than one value of a part on
the bench at a time, which dramatically reduces the need (at least
while stuffing boards) to read the colour bands at all.

John