Not sure what happened as my post that was sent in by email apears to be missing the body text. I am replying to myself to send in the missing text. Sorry if I am in some way doing it wrong.
=== Original Message ===
Hi, I am new to this group here at IO, and was redirected from the former Yahoo HP group where I used to be a member a long time ago.
I just recently acquired a nice 5022A TTL/CMOS Troubleshooting Kit which includes one each of the 545A Logic probe, 546A Logic Pulser, and 547A current probe, all in a nice HP pouch, and everything in very good condition given age, and fully operational. Originally this kit also included the 548A logic clip, but this specific bundle I purchased did not, so in the mean time I managed to get one clip separately to make it complete once again.
The kit also included all the grabber clips that go on the power cables, plus two spares. But one thing I am still missing is the Ground Clip cable, which can be plugged into either the 545A or 546A in order to achieve a shorter ground path connection. This cable has the typical grabber on one end, and on the other has a kind of sleeve that would slip over a connector on the probe that is basically just a rather small diameter pin recessed inside the body of the probe.
I assume that probably the easiest solution would be to just try to build a new cable from scratch, and already having the grabber, that only leaves me to find something suitable to use at the other end. My question would be if someone here has already attempted to build such a cable and if so which type of sleeve connector did they use (or would recommend - maybe a Mouser or Digikey PN would be nice). If nothing else I would have to start looking at those places myself and eventually try to find something that might fit, but I was hoping this has already been done and a working part has been found.
Also, if by any chance anyone here in this group might have one of these Ground Clip Cables for sale (HP Part No. 00545-60105), even if in used (but in decent condition), even if it is missing the grabber side. Of course it goes without saying that a NOS cable would even be better. Either way I would definitively be interested. I already checked the e-pay place and set up a search just in case anything comes up, but I doubt someone would sell one of these cables separately. Also did various Google searches which only brought up links to older HP catalogs from the 80s where the part number of the cable is listed as an included accesory to the 545/546 probes. I could also send in a small picture of the ground clip wire if that would be of any help.
Hope the combined knowledge of this group can help me. Thanks for any leads (pun intended). Hope everyone is having a nice weekend.
Alex
