Re: Protecting Equipment
Its not really a problem in real life since most DC blocks only have capacitors that are 100n or lower, the short current pulse doesn¡¯t hurt anything!
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Lothar baier <Lothar@...>
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Re: Recommendation for an "up to 1GHz" generator + sweeper
Hi all, just for information, there are 2 (TWO!) 8644A in good shape offered on a popular internet auction site. Search for item #334365530011. Only drawback: pickup only, in the eastern part of
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Martin
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Re: BS, was Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] Spread the word -- Swap Meet Returns!
Lol no its a different JBC
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Lothar baier <Lothar@...>
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Re: Agilent 3458A Troubleshooting
If you haven't seen it yet, Illya Tsemenko (xDevs) has done extensive work on these machines and documented the process thoroughly. See for example https://xdevs.com/fix/hp3458a/. I think there are
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Matt Huszagh
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Re: Protecting Equipment
It's worth adding that a DC block only provides some measure of safety. The ramp up voltage of a DC signal is an AC signal and can pass right through your series cap. If you look at DC blocking filter
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Matt Huszagh
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Re: BS, was Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] Spread the word -- Swap Meet Returns!
Hi Lothar I do remember the kits you are talking about but different to the Phillips EE8 / EE20 kits As they had a wooden board and you placed the cardboard lay of the circuit you where to build Onto
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Paul Bicknell
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Re: Youtube video HP service center in the 90th
PTT Telecom BV Kootwijk's 8562A S/N 3029A05239 was the star of the show. I wonder where it is now?
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Andy ZL3AG
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Re: BS, was Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] Spread the word -- Swap Meet Returns!
Hi wasn't the EE20 the ad on set with speaker and a lot more components wish I still had it as it was an inspiration for lots my age into electronics Paul
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Paul Bicknell
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Re: HP YIG replacement 3-7GHz
Hello Gerald, Interesting discussion, and thank you for this work. It's indeed a shame that such nice analyzers as the HP8560/90 series has this common issue. I have an HP-8561E with a dead YIG. I
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Peter Andersen
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Re: BS, was Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] Spread the word -- Swap Meet Returns!
JCB Dave
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Steve A
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Re: BS, was Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] Spread the word -- Swap Meet Returns!
JBC- isn't that the British heavy equipment company? (backhoes, bulldozers and such) -Dave
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Dave Seiter
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Re: BS, was Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] Spread the word -- Swap Meet Returns!
When you talking about phillips EE kits are you talking about the things that used the blue hole plates and springs to clip the parts ?
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Lothar baier <Lothar@...>
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Re: BS, was Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] Spread the word -- Swap Meet Returns!
Back when i was a kit there were no cheap tools , in Germany we had all small local stores selling tools and all of it was name brand quality stuff . As far as soldering irons concerned ERSA was the
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Lothar baier <Lothar@...>
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Re: BS, was Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] Spread the word -- Swap Meet Returns!
My father had an electronics business in the 80s. Ham radio stuff, some computer and video game things. That business was mostly wound up by the time I was born, but all the parts and equipment were
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Bryce Schroeder
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Re: BS, was Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] Spread the word -- Swap Meet Returns!
For me it was the mid-1960s, when I was in year 9 high school I think. Our 21" STC TV had lost sync. I asked mum if I could have a go fixing it. She looked me in the face and could see that I was
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Labguy
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Re: BS, was Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] Spread the word -- Swap Meet Returns!
In Argentina we had Lupin Eletronica magazine, I do my first experiments with them. I was 8 yo when started. I do electron tube radio receiver ( very simple ) but my father don¡¯t let me to connect
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Patricio A. Greco
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Re: BS, was Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] Spread the word -- Swap Meet Returns!
Ditto. I still have few bits of my EE20 knocking around. I presume you have seen http://www.hansotten.com/electronic-kits/ee-series/ee8-ee20-a20/ and https://archive.org/details/ee20-colour-en I don't
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Tom Gardner
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Re: BS, was Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] Spread the word -- Swap Meet Returns!
Hi Paul, yes 1949 for me! My Dad was at the Cavendish Labs in Cambridge so I got to cut my teeth on all sorts of discarded electronic bits and pieces, when I was about 12 he got a lift back in the
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Adrian Nicol
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Re: BS, was Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] Spread the word -- Swap Meet Returns!
Growing up in Germany we had shopclass as well as technical drawing , later when I learned a trade we had to go to vocational school once a week and beside of all the electronics stuff we also had
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Lothar baier <Lothar@...>
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Re: BS, was Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] Spread the word -- Swap Meet Returns!
Hi Adrian I think I must be a few years younger than you as I was born in !957 I started learning with the Philips electronic kits think it was called EE8 at the age of 10 but already dismantled a TV
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Paul Bicknell
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