Re: Tek 585A - for your entertainment!
Connecting the ground of the oscilloscope to the power line is not a good idea.? There are other ways to measure line voltage.? You can use an isolation transformer on the line, although that might
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Bob Albert <bob91343@...>
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Re: Tek 585A - for your entertainment!
Did you connect the probe ground clip to anything on the outlet? If so, that could be the trouble that caused the current that tripped the breaker. You might have connected scope ground to 120VAC.
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John Griessen <john@...>
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Re: SG504 fault
Dennis and Kerry, I don't know the Lecroy 534 but you can use the Tek DSO models that I am familiar with close to their rated bandwidth as long as you enable whatever represents 'equivalent time
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Roger Evans
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Re: Tek 585A - for your entertainment!
Hello, Do you have a copy of the 585A service manual? If not, you can get it here. http://w140.com/tekwiki/wiki/585 I think your first step id to grab a copy of the manual and do some study in the
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Tom Miller
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Re: Tek 585A - for your entertainment!
Starting points, before doing anything else: Tektronix¡¯ ABCs of Probes Primer http://w140.com/tek_ABCs_of_Probes_1990.pdf Fundamentals of Floating Measurements and Isolated Input Oscilloscope
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Tom Gardner
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Tek 585A - for your entertainment!
I'm new to the group and sadly a long, long ago degreed EE. I pickup up free scope that hadn't been used in MANY years and I personally haven't touched a scope literally in 45 years! In my excitement,
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jamesvyu@...
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Re: SG504 fault
Hi Kerry, A digital scope will have severe aliasing when you hit any frequency from the SG504 that is a subharmonic of the DSO's sampling frequency. That would account for severe noise and a drop in
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Dennis Tillman W7pF
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Re: SG504 fault
I'm embarrassed to say that the apparent problem with the SG504 seems to have more to do with operator error than any real fault. The Lecroy DSO being used to look at the SG504 output has only
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Kerry Burns
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Re: how high would you stack them?
I'm blown away by this. I had seen these, but thought they were equipment specific.? Many must be, but what a great idea.? And if cosmetics aren't critical they seem available? (used) on Ebay for
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John Ferguson
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Re: how high would you stack them?
I use Hardigg military rack cases each set of specialized instruments lives in its ¡®own¡¯ waterproof and air and dust tight hardigg case with its own power strip. My ¡®basic¡¯ instruments like
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Scott McGrath
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How to make a 92SX109 from a 92S16 and a 92SX118 from a 92S32 Pattern Generator Module Card?
Hi to All, This to create a 100 MHz Pattern Generator out of "standard" 50MHz (92S16/92S32) Pattern Generator Modules. Out of the 92SX109/92SX118 Product Note (57W-7122) the 92SX109/92SX118 Modules
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Egge Siert
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Re: 468 still trouble shooting Horizontal jitter
On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 05:25 PM, lop pol wrote: > > I have cleaned up the power supplies with new caps all around. Still have a > horizontal jitter. Its almost unnoticeable during A sweep. Its most
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Brendan
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Re: Tek 465 "B" Sweep
Hmm, I think you're right. It doesn't want to act up with the shield off. With it on t is bad almost all the time. It also was installed incorrectly, the fingers are supposed to go under a shield
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Jeff Urban
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Re: how high would you stack them?
<snip> I have a similar approach. The local "club" stores sell a metal shelf unit, four two piece posts 1 inch in diameter, six wire shelves (try to find the ones that are not like trays), casters,
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Harvey White
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Re: how high would you stack them?
Hmmm... Good ideas from you all! What works for me at the moment is a wooden bench in my garage. I made an equipment shelf for it a few years ago. Then a couple months ago I put casters (a few bucks
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Jim Ford
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Re: Tek 465 "B" Sweep
Hi jeff Responds to stress.....dry joint?...something never soldered?....pcb crack?...resistor cracked?...As you can tell I'm not an expert but pressure related faults seem to fall under such headings
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Jack
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Re: Tek 465 "B" Sweep
Has another problem. The front end of channel 1, the lower V/div. settings result in a distorted square wave, and I mean distorted. Sometimes overpeaked and sometimes underpeaked. I have determined it
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Jeff Urban
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Re: how high would you stack them?
I am just finishing an exercise in cramming a lot of gear into a small space (bench area 4' x 7', room 10' x 7'). I'm using shelving on the double slotted standards with 2 & 3 tab brackets. In
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Reginald Beardsley
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Re: how high would you stack them?
In storage I have 500 series and 7K scopes stacked 5 high.? Never had issues with bent cases.? One of my 19" racks is basically a stack of gear too.? Heavy HP scope on the bottom, gradually getting
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Dave Seiter
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Tek 371 test fixture
I am working on a tek 371 with a friend of mine , it has no test fixture and these things are never seen on ebay , so our idea is to make one . We are in the process of using a test fixture which will
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oliver johnson
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