Re: 438A Power Meter Fan Transplant
Happy to report that the transplant is successful and I now have two good 438A power meters. The parts unit is back on the shelf. Sean
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Sean Turner
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Re: Decline, was Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] new File called App notes
Bill, I agree with soooo much of what you said, thank you. As to scopes it was my understanding Tek had a patent on their circuit and didn¡¯t license it. We had tek scope in the EM shop at Opto div.
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Stephen Hanselman
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Re: Test Equipment For Sale
WHAT¡¯S LYSDEXIA?
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Jeremy Nichols
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Re: Test Equipment For Sale
AND SPREAD THE WORD OF DOG.
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Jeremy Nichols
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Re: HP 3478A Ohms Calibration
Thanks for this, I¡¯ll be forwarding the last section to one of my customers. He has another instrument, an electronic resistor, that uses the LZ ref which is critical to the reading of the unit.
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Stephen Hanselman
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#105569
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WTB: HP 8971B or advice
I recently got an 8970B & 346B from Pete. I'd like to add an 8971B to the system so I can cover the 2.4 & 5 GHz ISM bands. There are some 8971Bs on ebay, but the the cheap ones are "untested, no
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Reginald Beardsley
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#105568
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Re: Test Equipment For Sale
I am also dyslexic and there was a Fac ook post recently that I loved: DYSLEXICS OF THE WORLD UNTIE :-) Quoting Paul Bicknell <paul@...>:
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Bruce
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Re: 438A Power Meter Fan Transplant
Very good Sean, Good luck on the meters. Dave
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Dave Smith
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Re: 438A Power Meter Fan Transplant
Hope you have a speedy recovery! Appreciate the clarification. HP left enough slack in those option 002 cables to slide the rear panel assembly back far enough to get the fan module out. I have
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Sean Turner
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I almost had a nice 8753C VNA repair project
A few months ago, I was using my 8753C VNA, when I noticed that the "loss of phase lock" indication would occasionally appear.? Something was wrong, but I was busy with other things.? So, I set the
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Matt Corbett
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Re: Decline, was Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] new File called App notes
A memory to add to this discussion...? After moving to California in 1957 I quickly arranged to make a trek down to see the Hewlett-Packard plant on Page Mill Road in Palo Alto? -- the one with all
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ebrucehunter
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Re: 438A Power Meter Fan Transplant
I¡¯m in my hospital rm after having knee surgery yesterday. You¡¯re right, four corner screws no eight. If you can¡¯t move the back panel enough to get the fan in and out, you¡¯ll need to unplug
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Dave Smith
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Re: Maximum depth of HP rack mountable gear?
We just moved to a new house. I dumped a lot of my stuff, over-energetically apparently, don't have some instruments I really miss. My lab is still totally disorganized. Main issue it that it's longer
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Bill E
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Re: Decline, was Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] new File called App notes
Just a thought how about doing the best test equipment in a year and repeating it for every 5 years Eg 1990 Spectrum analyser HP xxxx oscilloscope teck XXX counter EIPXXX signal generator HP XXX audio
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Paul Bicknell
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Re: Maximum depth of HP rack mountable gear?
I have a friend who built two huge workshops into his house each with 15ft x 30" or more deep. When I go to visit there is no place to put my piece of paper to write on. My other friend with a
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peter bunge
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Re: Test Equipment For Sale
Sorry I didn't mean it to, and you have to put up with my bad spelling as I am dyslexic All my mechanical engineering until after I left school came from my father and that was grate as my best
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Paul Bicknell
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Re: 438A Power Meter Fan Transplant
Dave, I'm working on this this afternoon. I forgot to mention that all three of the 438As I have are Option 002...so there's a bunch of extra cabling in the way of pulling the rear panel off. Ugh.
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Sean Turner
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Re: Decline, was Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] new File called App notes
This topic has sure mutated. Can't let it die now, I'll jump in with a bunch of random babbling, some I've done before, but hey, can't remember which topics. Senility, I suppose. I posted a few days
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Bill E
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#105550
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Re: Test Equipment For Sale
Wow, did this turn into a contest? I was doing that in the early 60's. That's enough from my book. All yours - Mike B. Feher, N4FS 89 Arnold Blvd. Howell NJ 07731 848-245-9115 From:
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Mike Feher
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Re: Test Equipment For Sale
All sounds good to me Regards Paul
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Paul Bicknell
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