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On 2017-12-30 14:52, Lasse Langwadt Christensen wrote:
> Den lørdag den 30. december 2017 kl. 23.38.42 UTC+1 skrev Joerg:
>> On 2017-12-30 14:11, Lasse Langwadt Christensen wrote:
>>> Den lørdag den 30. december 2017 kl. 23.01.05 UTC+1 skrev Joerg:
>>>> On 2017-12-30 13:41, Andy wrote:
>>>>> On Saturday, December 30, 2017 at 1:09:51 PM UTC-6,
>>>>> pcdh...@gmail.com wrote:
>>>>>>> That was at the beginning of my first self-employed
>>>>>>> foray, to be able to design and test baseband sections
>>>>>>> for Pulsed-Doppler. Turns out all my initial med tech
>>>>>>> projects later were imaging projects so this
>>>>>>> painstakingly built box never saw meaningful service. I
>>>>>>> did one small RF experiment with that and promptly blew
>>>>>>> one of the four LH0063 by accidentally transmitting 100W
>>>>>>> shortwave into it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I couldn't bring myself to do it yet but some day I'll
>>>>>>> just have cut it loose. As we get older my wife's mantra
>>>>>>> has become "Just get rid of it!" :-)>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If you feel like fixing it instead, I'll happily donate an
>>>>>> LH0063CK to the cause.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You could show your better half this Paul Carlson video so
>>>>>> she can see how well off she is. ;)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TP9Fb6RUMsk
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Phil Hobbs
>>>>>
>>>>> Nice lab.
>>>>>
>>>>> Musta cost a pretty penny.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Actually not anymore unless you count the real estate costs.
>>>> Nearly all of those boat anchor instruments can be bought
>>>> cheaply because most younger engineers do not have the foggiest
>>>> how to operate them. So they get ditched by large and small
>>>> companies. Unfortunately sometimes literally. Pleany of stories
>>>> where someone heard a vvrradda-BAM .. CRUNCH out in the parking
>>>> lot. Turns out not to have been a fender bender but someone had
>>>> just thrown an XYZ analyzer into the dumpster, with another
>>>> stash of them waiting on the fork lift.
>>>
>>> and they don't have to be old or outdated, if the bean counters
>>> decide they are worth the most as destroyed they go into the
>>> crusher
>>>
>>
>> Bean counters are often not smart with those decisions. Many don't
>> seem to understand that donating equipment would net the company a
>> nice big tax deduction. Even if they'd just call in the guys from
>> the next tech bone yard they'd at least get a small amount per
>> pound of weight. Plus lower charges from the waste disposal
>> service.
>>
>> Even my over 40 year old first oscilloscope still has a job. Not
>> here but in a high school I donated it to. I didn't need a tax
>> receipt, just wanted to make sure the kids have something that
>> makes them literally see waveform changes as they create them.
>>
>> Really smart managers in high-tech companies maek sure there is a
>> junk room where old gear is kept instead of tossed. Over my career
>> that has saved the bacon many times. Occasionally I had to invest
>> an hour or two of billed time but then the rejuvenated old analog
>> scope diagnosed the problem they had been chasing for days.
>
> afaiu once it has been written off just keeping it in storage it is
> the same as crushing it far tax goes it has no value but eventually
> you run out of space, if you sell it you probably have to jump
> through all kind of hoops to figure out how much was written off and
> how much you made selling it
>

If they can't classify it as some sort of in-kind contribution then just 
give it away. There is more to it that taxes, for example the 
recognition of a corporation in the community. A nicely equipped 
high-school or maker club lab with a placard stating who donated all 
that stuff goes a long way.

-- 
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/

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