I've got an 8170a and the Operating and Service Manual for it. It's
the typical HP O&S manual; about 2" thick and loaded with fold-out
pages. If there is something I can look up for you, I'd be happy to
do so, and, if anyone has figured out a good way to copy those fold-
out pages, I'd be happy to scan the thing in or loan the manual out
so somebody else can do the dirty work.
My 8170 is in very good shape. The battery was bad but didn't do any
damage to the board or surrounding components; it was in the "fuzzy"
stage, but hadn't leaked acid over anything. I need to rebuild the
keyboard, which is sticky, but otherwise it's quite nice.
Except, of course, that it's missing the output pods (15452a, 15453a,
15454a, 15455a, 15456a) - and so utterly worthless. I'm sure nobody
will be surprised, but I haven't been able to find them anywhere. Any
leads (no pun intended) would be appreciated.
-Mark
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On Dec 11, 2006, at 12:50 PM, tloleksy wrote:
I recently purchased the HP 8170a on Ebay by mistake. I was looking
for a generator that I could program to generate a particular signal.
My goal is to find the resident frequencies in a circuit I'm building.
On a limited budget, I've been able to make modifications to other
equipment to obtain what I was after. I've spent hour looking for
information on the HP 8170a without success. Before spending a great
deal of time or expense on service diagrams, does anyone know if what
I'm attempting to achieve with the 8170a is possible. Any information
on the 8170a would be grateful appreciated.
Thanks T.O. tloleksy@...
