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Re: recapping 2445A - this did not go well

 

Heathkit was known for using capacitors too close to their rated voltages.

I should still have some Pet 8050 disk drives, and there should be a few 4023 printers in the garage. The first Tek scopes that I used were in the Army, in the early to mid '70s. There were many of them on base at Ft. Rucker. In the RADAR main building where our unit worked from, and in many other electronics maintenance groups. Calibration was done on base, and the standards were matched to some aboard a military aircraft that made scheduled visits.


Michael A. Terrell

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Seiter <d.seiter@...>
Sent: Jul 27, 2018 10:35 PM
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [TekScopes] recapping 2445A - this did not go well

No, we built it in about '76 (it had push button tuning!), so it was solid state except for a HV rectifier tube, which I eventually replaced with silicon.? I kept it running until about '87, when my Mom got tired of it's increasingly frequent breakdowns.? It was sad taking it to Goodwill.?
I had a RS 101 kit earlier, but building the TV with my dad was my introduction to "real world electronics".? I picked up my first scope (a Tek 502) about four years later while playing with PET/CBM computers.
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