Re: HP 16500C looking for logic analyser boards that are functional
In my experience with these boards, the issues are usually around the edges of where the runners used to be - sometimes even a fair ways away from the edges. I don't know the chemistry of what's going
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Andrew Hakman
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Re: HP 8350B sweeper behavior
Martin, if the trace is still noisy, whether or not you activate the CW filter on your 83522A, the circuit involved in this filter is very simple: on the A6 module, it is a U22 driver, a K1 relay and
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Yves Tardif
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Re: HP 16500C looking for logic analyser boards that are functional
It may be more complicated than it looks on the surface. The plated through holes are often not what you'd think, being more delicate than not. To visualize this, think a ham sandwich (just because)
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Harvey White
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Re: HP 16500C looking for logic analyser boards that are functional
Using the microscope took some pictures. PCB 0 <https://flic.kr/p/2pgNMqz> PCB 1 <https://flic.kr/p/2pgLtMJ> PCB 2 <https://flic.kr/p/2pgLtMD> PCB 3 <https://flic.kr/p/2pgLtMZ> PCB 4
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Damien Towning
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Re: HP 8350B sweeper behavior
Martin, I'm back... My 8350B, on which I was testing, suddenly broke down, when it was turned back on, it was working 30 seconds earlier...what a coincidence! But, it wasn't too complicated: a
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Yves Tardif
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HP3400A open hardware pcb -- Any interest?
I made a simple test case circuit board and connectors in 2012 and sold 240 of them with no complaints -- the 7k_flex_extender kit. I have a couple of 3400As and might do a free published chopper
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John Griessen
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Re: HP 8350B sweeper behaviour
Amen Brother, I am with you, wholeheartedly agree! I have been spoiled by having synthesizers available! Poignant story from my younger days: Microwave synthesizers were ABSOLUTELY beyond my reach in
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Jeff Kruth
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Re: HP 8350B sweeper behaviour
I'm probably spoiled by these synthesised generators. When I was at school, many years ago, I build a generator myself. Certainly horrible performance, but I did not have any tools to measure that.
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Martin
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Re: HP 8350B sweeper behaviour
What is interesting to me is the expectation of greater accuracy than was possible. Essentially, the display LEDs on an 8350B are part of a Voltmeter, not a FREQUENCY COUNTER. 5 MHz at 10 GHz is .05%
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Jeff Kruth
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Re: HP 8350B sweeper behaviour
Martin, You wrote: "The microwave module is even worse, at 10GHz its off by 5MHz with no CAL as the other modules have." The frequency accuracy maybe off by 5MHz, in CW mode, the tolerance is ¡À20MHz.
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Yves Tardif
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8510C: modify power-up instrument state
Hi, my 8510C comes up in factory preset state upon power-up. How can I make the unit come up in a user predefined state? Modifying the user preset state apparently isn't sufficient. The color scheme
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tom_iphi
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Re: 8510C System Bus Address Error
The 8517 manual answers question 2. The b-channels have a low frequency cut-off. So, that's normal. I'll ask the other question in a separate thread. Tom
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tom_iphi
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Re: HP 8350B sweeper behaviour
At LSSM, failed DIP switches are the #2 failure that we have to deal with on half-century-old computers, second only to small electrolytic capacitors. We nearly always just replace them. -Dave -- Dave
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Dave McGuire
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Re: HP 8350B sweeper behaviour
The battery is the first place I go on getting a new 8350. I have scrapped too many to risk losing a good one. The other possibility is the dip switches on the plugin and the adapter. They are not
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Chuck Harris
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Re: HP 8350B sweeper behaviour
Hi Yves, here are my results. 1) HP 83522A set as yours, also about the same parameters on my SA. The trace is similar, but much noisier than yours. 2) Hp 86222B (same frequency range) plugged in with
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Martin
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Re: 8510C System Bus Address Error
Hi folks, problem solved. Previously, I only checked the GPIB addresses of present instruments. I have now set the GPIB addresses of not-connected units (like the second source which I don't have) to
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tom_iphi
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Re: HP 8350B sweeper behaviour
Yeah, I have heard of the battery issue, thats why I removed the battery altogether... :-) No problem from that side! cheers Martin
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Martin
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Re: HP 8350B sweeper behaviour
The 8350B sweeper has a nicad battery (BT1), ...borrowed from the HP35 calculator family... mounted on the inside panel of the sweeper plugin compartment. By design, it gets trickle charged to death.
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Chuck Harris
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Re: HP 3400A Upgrade PCBs Available
The board set is visible if you click on completed auctions. John KK6IL
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John Kolb
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Re: HP 3400A Upgrade PCBs Available
The original boards with edge connectors were nickel or gold plated, the ones I saw on ebay looked to be HASL, this could be a problem with the gold edge connector sockets, a warning from an ex-HP
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factory
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