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- The model number
- The function(s) listed below. Some instruments have multiple functions - for example, the 4195A is a VNA, spectrum analyzer and an impedance analyzer. Therefore the 4195A is listed in multiple categories
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- Accessory kits - various types
- AC power analyzers - PA2201A and PA2203A
- AC power supplies 6811C, 6812C, 6813C
- Airlines
- Arbitrary waveform generators M8194A
- Amplifiers?493A, 495A?
- Attenuators (optical) 8156A, 8157A, 8158B, 81566A, 81576A,?
- Attenuators (RF) 8494A
- Attenuator set (500 Ω) 350C
- Attenuator set (600 Ω) 350D
- Attenuator switch driver
- Audio analyzers? 8903A, 8903B, 8903E,? ?
- Base station test sets
- Bit error rate testers (BERTs)
- Cables
- Capacitance meters U1701A, U1701B, 4272A, 4278A, 4279A
- Capacitor Bridge 4270A,
- Capacitor standards 16380A, 16380C,?
- Carrier noise test setsi
- Cesium frequency standards
- Clamp ammeters
- Close field probes
- Crystal Impedance E4915A, E4916A
- Data Acquisition Systems (DAQs)
- DC power analyzers
- DC power supplies 6030A , 6031A , 6032A, 6033A, 6035A, 6131C, 6621A, 6622A, 6623A, 6624A, 6627A, 6255A, 6645A, 6671A, 6672A, 6673A, 6674A, 6675A, 62003A, 62003C, 62003E, 62004A, 62004B, 62004E, 62005A, 62005B, 62005E, 62006A, 62006B, 62006E, 62010A, 62010C, 62010E, 62012A, 62012C, 62012E, 62015A, 62015C, 62015E, 62018A, 62018C, 62018E, 62024A, 62024C, 62024E, 62028A, 62028C, 62028E, 62048A, 62048C, 62048E
- Delay lines
- Detectors
- Device current waveform analyzers
- Digital communications analyzers
- Directional couplers
- Distortion analyzers 330B, 330C, 330D, 331A, 332A, 333A, 334A, 339A, 8903A, 8903B, 8903E,???
- Dynamic measurement DC source
- Electrometers
- Fading simulators
- Femto ammeters
- Filters
- Frequency counters 522B, 5342A 5343A 5352B
- Frequency standards?
- Function Generators ? 3310A,? 8165A,
- GPIB controllers, extenders, cables etc.
- GPS frequency standards
- Harmonic mixers
- High resistance meters 4339B
- High resistance meter fixtures 16008B
- HEV EV Grid Emulators and Test Systems
- In-circuit test systems
- Impedance analyzers 4195A, 4291A, 4291B, 4395A, 4396A, 4396B, 4294A, E4990A, E4991A
- Impedance Analyzer Accessories
- Impedance / Gain Phase analyzer 4194A
- Impedance Meter 4193A,
- Isolators
- LCR meters? U1701A, U1701B, U1731A,? U1731B, U1731C, U1732A, U1732B, U1732C, U1733C, 4191A , 4192A, 4194A, 4195A, E4196A,? 4216A, 4260A, 4261A, 4262A? 4263A, 4263B, 4271B, 4274A, 4275A, 4276A , 4277A, 4284A, 4285A, 4286A, 4287A, 4291A, 4291B, 4294A, 4332A, 4342A, 4395A, 4396A, 4396B, E4980A and E4980AL
- LCR meter calibration devices? 16380A 42030A? 42090A, 42091A and 42100A
- LCR meter accessories
- 2-Terminal BNCs.
- 4-Terminal Pair (BNC connectors)
- Cable extension 16048A, 16048D, 16048E, 16048G, 16048H
- DC current bias accessories 42841A, 42842A, 42842B, 42842C, 42843A
- DC voltage bias accessories 16065A, 16065C,
- Kelvin clips 16089A, 16089B, 16089C,16089E
- Lead Components 16047A,16047B, 16047D, 16047E
- Material 16451B, 16452A
- Probes 42941A
- SMD 16034E, 16034G, 16034H
- 2-port 16096A
- 7 mm (APC7)
- 2-Terminal BNCs.
- LCZ meters? 4276A, 4277A,
- Lightwave clock / data receivers
- Lightwave converter
- Lightwave component analyzer
- Lightwave measurement system mainframes
- Lightwave polarization analyzers 8509B
- Logic analyzers
- Nemo wireless network solutions.
- Noise and interference test set
- Noise figure analyzers
- Noise sources 346A, 346B. 346C ,
- Matching pads (50 ohm to 75 ohm or similar)
- Materials test equipment
- Microwave repeaters
- Microwave downconverters 70427A
- Microwave / THz sources
- Milliammeter 428B
- Milliohm meter
- Mobile communications DC source
- Modular instruments
- AXIe
- Data acquisition (DAQ)
- USB
- PXIe
- Modulation analyzers
- Multimeters 427A, 970A
- Optical attenuators
- Optical heads
- Optical sources
- Optical spectrum analyzers
- Oscilloscopes 120A, 120AR, 120B, 122A, 130A, 130B, 130BR, 130C, 140A, 140B, 141A, 150A, 150AR, 160B, 180A, 180AR, 180CD, 181A, 181AR, 181T, 181TR, 182C, 182T, 183A, 183B, 184A, 184B, 185A, 185B, 1200A, 1200B, 1220A, 1221A, 1703A, 1707A, 1707B, 1710A, 1710B, 1715A, 1722A, 1725A, 1726A, 1740A, 1741A, 1742A, 1743A, 1744A, 1746A, 1980A, 1980B, 5403A, 6000A, 6000L, 16533A, 16534A, 54100A, 5410B, 54100C, 5100D, 54111D, 54120A, 54120B, 54200A, 54501A, 54502A, 54503A, 54504A, 54520A, 54520C, 54540A, 54540C, 54542A, 54542C, 54600B, 54601A, 54601B, 54602B, 54603B,? 54645A, 54654N, 54710A, 54720A, 54750A, 54825N, E1428,?
- Oven controlled crystal oscillators (OCXOs)
- Pattern generators
- PCM terminal test set
- Phase noise measurement
- Pico ammeters
- Printers 2225
- Plotters 7470A, 7475A?
- Probes
- Protocol analyzers and exercisers.
- Power booster test sets
- Power meters 431A, 431B, 431C, 432A, 435A, 435B, 437B, 438A
- Power splitters
- Power supplies
- Pulse generators
- Q-meters 4342A?
- Q-meter calibration inductors 16470A
- Reflection transmission test set
- Return loss module (optical)
- Relays / switches / switch matrices (optical)
- Relays / switches / switch matrices (RF)
- Resistor standards 42030A?and 42100A
- S-parameter test sets
- Scalar network analyzers
- SCSI bus preprocessor interface E2324A
- Selective level meters 3746A
- Semiconductors
- Semiconductor parameter analyzers 4145A, 4155B, 4156B,
- Signal analyzers
- Signal generators / sweep generators / signal sources / oscillators 200CD, 201B, 209A, 204D,? 608A,? 8165A
- Software
- Source measure units
- Spectrum analyzers 4195A,???
- Switch control units
- SWR meter 415E?
- Time interval? counters
- Time mark generator 226A
- Timing and data state modules
- Torque wrenches
- Transmitter testers
- Trigger modules
- Ultrasound transducers
- Universal bridge? 4260A, 4265A, 4265B?
- Vacuum tube voltmeter 410C
- Vector Impedance Meter 4193A, 4800A, 4815A
- Vector Network Analyzers (VNAs) 4195A,? 8510A, 8510B, 8510C, 8753A, 8753B, 8753C, 8753D, 8753E, 8753ES, 8752ET, 8719A, 8719B, 8719C, 8719D, 8720A, 8720B, 8720C, 8720D, 8720ES, 8722A, 8722B, 8722C, 8722D, 8722ES,
- Vector Network Analyzers (VNA) calibration kits 85032B, 85032E, 85033C, 85033D, 85033E, 85050B, 85050C, 85050D, 85052B, 85052C, 85052D, 85054A, 85054B, 85054D, 85056A
- Vector Network Analyzer (VNA) verification kits
- Vector Signal Analyzer 89650S, 89600S
- Vector voltmeters 8405A, 8508A,
- VXI mainframes 70000B, 70000C
- Waveform and function generators
- Waveguide to waveguide and waveguide to coaxial transitions.
- Wireless 58 OTA chambers
- Wireless channel emulators
- Wireless network emulators
- Wireless communication test sets
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Re: microscope / high magnification camera options for soldering, faults, and other examinations/inspections
Let me do a +1 for the Metcal soldering station suggestion. I have 2 older MX500 stations, those are the 13.5MHz version. Two-handed soldering can be quite useful and works fine using my full optical,
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Wilko Bulte
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Re: HP8510C TRL Calibration
I use used scikit-rf to do a TRL and a SOLT calibration in the PC, both giving very similar results. For the SOLT i substituted the a 'quarter-wave + short', for the 'O', making it a 'S', so it was
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neil
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Re: microscope / high magnification camera options for soldering, faults, and other examinations/inspections
FWIW, I wear glasses with built in prisms. I take them off when using my microscope. If you can try the Nikon before buying with and without glasses, then that would be nice. Also make sure you have
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Anders
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Re: Threads for screws on 8656 Siggen
UNOFFICIAL
I misread the parts list and thought it was 5/32. 3MM is too small , 4mm is too big, 5/32 BSW doesn't screw in
Wayne Eckert BEng
Observing Operations Hub Sydney
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Wayne Eckert
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Re: microscope / high magnification camera options for soldering, faults, and other examinations/inspections
Good stereo microscopes are like binoculars have one fixed eyepiece and one variable focus one.
close the variable focus eye, focus with the fixed one, reverse, but use the eyepiece alone for
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Harvey White
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Re: microscope / high magnification camera options for soldering, faults, and other examinations/inspections
I use an American Optical (because it was cheap) and found a nice heavy stand to hold it up.? I have a fiber optic ring light on the microscope.
I find that an auxiliary light can help to illuminate
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Harvey White
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Re: Threads for screws on 8656 Siggen
M3.5x.6
Renée
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Renée
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Re: microscope / high magnification camera options for soldering, faults, and other examinations/inspections
Thank you again all - really thoughtful and comprehensive input.
I may be able to buy a Nikon SMZ645 for $250-300 or so. I wonder what you
all think about that opportunity. This would come with what
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Radu Bogdan Dicher
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Re: microscope / high magnification camera options for soldering, faults, and other examinations/inspections
I personally wear bifocals. I take them off when using the microscope, to allow my eyes to get close enough to see the full field of view. It just shift the optimum focus for me, from what's optimum
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Steve Hendrix
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Re: Threads for screws on 8656 Siggen
From my long ago youth futzing around in a tool and die shop, I recall, there is also a (rarely found) 5-40 ANSI thread
Sure
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Dale Chayes/KB1ZKD
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Re: Threads for screws on 8656 Siggen
If the unit is English then the screws are 4-40, 6-32, and 8-32.
If the unit is metric then the screws are 2.5 mm, 3.5 mm, and 4.0 mm
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Don Bitters
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Re: 3" disks for 8566A/B, 8568A/B on HP 9000 Series 200 Computers - Any interest in images?
Hi Ulf,
Thanks for the disks. If you find other similar disks please upload them
to the group files section.
73,
Razvan
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Razvan Popescu
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Re: microscope / high magnification camera options for soldering, faults, and other examinations/inspections
It's interesting to read the various posts.
I possess both video microscopes and binocular styles as well depending upon the work being done. Out of all I usually grab a video unit first off.
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Greg Muir
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Re: microscope / high magnification camera options for soldering, faults, and other examinations/inspections
I do not recommend the digital microscopes, because they don't provide
stereo vision, which is really important when working on SMT components.
I've been using stereo microscopes for at least 20
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Philip Freidin
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Re: microscope / high magnification camera options for soldering, faults, and other examinations/inspections
Radu, I'm a little late jumping in, but here goes. I have a couple of issues that impact my bench work. First is that I have vision problems and need magnification to do even basic work. Second is
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John Ackermann N8UR
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Re: microscope / high magnification camera options for soldering, faults, and other examinations/inspections
Thank you all, great input.
From these choices, it sounds like a stereo microscope on a boom would be
ideal. I do tend to work on all sorts of positions and oftentimes spill
outside of the desk/bench.
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Radu Bogdan Dicher
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Re: Threads for screws on 8656 Siggen
Maybe I have the same problem as the 8656: the cover screws for the 8643 is NOT 6-32 (USA, national coarse), nor is it 6-40 (USA, national fine). The diameter is very close to USA #6, a finer thread
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Bill Carver
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Re: Threads for screws on 8656 Siggen
Asian mystery screws that are almost imperial measurements...
Jim
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Jim n8qoh
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Re: Threads for screws on 8656 Siggen
I went to a hardware specialty store with one of the Torx screws from the 8643. They said it was not a metric diameter. Nor was it 32 threads per inch, a US "coarse" thread. They said it look like it
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Bill Carver
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Re: E5052A Power On Test (3.3V Bus Supply)
Thanks.
I had some free time today and experimented with a discretely designed gain block in place of the MMIC. I think I'm hitting the limits of the E5052A now but I managed -170dBc/Hz at 10kHz
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jmr
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