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Re: which linux to use? (was Reinstalling operating software)
Are you in the US? You really need to come see LSSM. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
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Dave McGuire
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Re: which linux to use? (was Reinstalling operating software)
Amazing. Almost the same list of Unix OS versions for me, but I can add one, a summer job out of? high school
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Samudra N3RDX S21X
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GPIB, was Re: which linux to use? (was Reinstalling operating software)
Hello Mark, I am considering obtaining a GPIB interface, and looked at choices from eBay at first 82357b: Search Result | eBay, (
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Samudra N3RDX S21X
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Re: 8562A service manual
hi Thanks for all your replies I actually have the clips, but the trouble shooting information seems wrong so I'm looking for a service manual for my prefix 2923A but I'm not sure if it exists now on
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Richard
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Re: HP 8662A - alternative attenuator configurations
Hi Tony, I'm fairly sure you should not have anything connected to that connector. On my 8663A there are two attenuators, that each has a ribbon cable, and yes, all signals controlling the attenuators
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Askild
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Re: HP8640B no rf out
Thanks for the update, Ton. My search result for your procedure yielded a dead Yahoo Groups link. Dave Wise Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2022 1:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject:
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Dave Wise
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Re: 8662A - a warning about dangerous service directions
Dmitri, Your second assumption is the right one. If the ESR is too low the power supply will be unstable, the phase margin is affected severely. I have made numerous power supply simulations using
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G?ran Krusell
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Re: 8662A - a warning about dangerous service directions
Hello, In trying to understand overvoltage shutdown problem of my 8662A I found a curious thing. I have two A7A3 inverter modules. I discovered sensitivity of the supply to the parameters of A7A3C8
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Dmitry Teytelman
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Re: HP8640B no rf out
Hi Donald, In 2011 I described how I made wiper contacts from a USB-A socket for my SA. You can find the info here: /g/HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment/album?id=68376 After 11 years
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Ton PA0TBR
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Re: anyone have broken HP 5342a counter GPIB/HPIB i/f or know of equivalents
? not sure about the dining room table unless you got a real good wife or sufficient funds to bribe her ? I think the 5342/43 came out in the late 1970s early 80s so that would put this into the
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Lothar baier <Lothar@...>
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Re: anyone have broken HP 5342a counter GPIB/HPIB i/f or know of equivalents
I have three, ...no extender cards.? Just a lot of teeny-weeny clips and probes. 'Like your comment on 'dining room tables'. Sometimes you just need to sprawl out. Don N5CID
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Don Lewis
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Re: anyone have broken HP 5342a counter GPIB/HPIB i/f or know of equivalents
Oh good grief, this counter isn't THAT old. People fix stuff like this all the time. It's easier with a well-equipped lab, but people fix these things on their dining room tables every day. -Dave --
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Dave McGuire
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Re: anyone have broken HP 5342a counter GPIB/HPIB i/f or know of equivalents
Well, https://youtu.be/g8vHhgh6oM0?t=18 is your answer, IMHO.? Also, for these old (failing) equipment that use TTL/CMOS chips, it's not worth it to setup a whole test/service lab just to get things
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Samudra N3RDX S21X
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Re: E4407B strange peak shapes at low RBW
ok i just read your post on this and you stated that your issue occured after a processor board repair..... HP as mentioned before uses EEPROMs on each module to store calibration information , the
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Lothar baier <Lothar@...>
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Re: E4407B strange peak shapes at low RBW
I am simply stating that for my unit showing same symptoms this ¡°did clear the issue on my unit¡±. Sandra Sent: Wednesday, June 1, 2022 9:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject:
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Sandra Carroll <smgvbest@...>
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Re: OT: Via plugging
Might be a possibility , I have some silver filled solder paste that was intended to be used for die attach but I have to find the data sheet to see the thermal resistance Sent: Wednesday, June 1,
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Lothar baier <Lothar@...>
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Re: E4407B strange peak shapes at low RBW
Usually the security sanitization requirement ONLY applies to user data which means every piece of data that was stored by the user it does NOT apply to factory data ! What this means in real life is
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Lothar baier <Lothar@...>
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Re: E4407B strange peak shapes at low RBW
Going from memory is not always the best thing, it¡¯s the NISPOM security sanitization of the instrument. Its in this document E4401-90513 - Security Features I¡¯ll see if it attaches to my reply It
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Sandra Carroll <smgvbest@...>
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Re: OT: Via plugging
How about silver solder? Silver is twice as good as aluminum. Mike
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Michael Perkins
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Re: OT: Via plugging
The numbers are even worse than I cited. I happened to remember the ratio of thermal resistances for copper and lead was about an order of magnitude, and assumed that lead and solder would have
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Tom Lee
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