Yeah I think I was expecting a home lab = "home electronics lab", although some networking equipment is still required. The rack mount stuff is nice, but yeah, scopes, bench dmm and power supplies, solder station, cable hangers and many drawers to sort parts was what I was expecting to see. Still the rack mount stuff is pretty cool. I have quite a few raspberry pis these days and was always looking for some "rack mount" style ways to make the power/ethernet cables nice and still have some easy way to temporarily hook up keyboard/mouse/monitor when it's occasionally needed.
It's not a lab until you lower the Bridgeport milling machine into the basement. Also, you may need three phase, but you will definitely need 240V for the multi-process welder.
Surprisingly enough I have two friends who both run mills (one is a Bridgeport the other is a full size Japanese brand) who use single-phase to 3-phase converters. Plugged into a 240V outlet they are essentially motor/generator sets. I was going to use one for a VAX6000 until I figured out the only reason for the 3-phase requirement was the blowers and re-wired it to work on 2-phase.
