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arthurok
hitachi might still make oscilloscope crts
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hitachi was a big competitor of tek a while back. i prefer tek instruments ----- Original Message -----
From: Don Collie To: TekScopes@... ; Kuba Ober Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 9:56 PM Subject: Re: [TekScopes] CRT manufacturers? Were the late 60`s and early 70`s the Halcion days for Tek? The USA put men on the Moon using this technology. I believe things, including Technology, have become more complex, but not always very much better. [See : I`m already bonding with my 141 T system, even before it has arrived :-) !] ----- Original Message ----- From: Kuba Ober To: TekScopes@... Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 3:15 PM Subject: Re: [TekScopes] CRT manufacturers? On Thursday 12 October 2006 19:40, you wrote: > Tek make a lot of scopes in China and will be moving more production > there.(like most US companies). > > The quality is actually better than what was being produced in > Beaverton. (hard to believe but true). I'm more worried about the overall quality of *design* of commonplace Tek scopes. Or, in other words, show me something that has clean (12+ bits noise-free) 1mV/div traces at 100MHz, and I'll gladly buy it. That's like 7603 but with up-to-date specs, namely digitizing, better resolution/lower aberrations. I'm looking for something that would replace a 7603 with basic preamps (7A26 + 7B85). Sadly enough, Tek doesn't make anything like that : ( The TDS20xx are a joke, and the digital phosphor ones (TDS30xx) are not that much better, resolution-wise. The scopes of today are cool for digital work, but for basic analog work they seem wholly inadequate. It's a shame that there isn't a scope out there that would be able to do basic multidomain testing, like checking for settling times of 12+ bit DACs. That's a very common thing nowadays, yet they don't make scopes that would do that (the preamps aren't good enough)! Argh. The gear of yesteryear will do all that with some homebrew stuff attached to the front-end (see Linear app notes), but it's really something one would hope would become commonplace in a world where everyone and his mother are converting between analog and digital . . . (I know, I'm just venting the frustration). The question still stands: arthurok, China is a big country. Any hints as to what the names of the companies may be? Even better, a website where one could at least look at the datasheets of electrostatic CRTs in production? I've googled around and came empty handed :( Cheers, Kuba ---------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.3/473 - Release Date: 12-Oct-06 |
