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Re: 155-0001-00 repair or replacement?
Turns out my request was #3 in line... but the #2 person thoughtfully yielded his place to me, so I could buy one. Thank you, anonymous Tekkie :) Despite the post office's best efforts to flatten it into foil (separate post), it apparently survived.
The most likely cause of the S-4 with offscreen trace is a bad hybrid. It's not hard to blow those microscopic diodes. Rather than spend time on troubleshooting, I just changed the hybrid. Surprisingly easy, especially since I read the instructions first... Sure enough, it's now pretty close to balanced even without tweaking the bridge adjustments, and it displays the same waveform as the S-1 and S-2 with a little overshoot/ring visible on each rising and falling edge. At least with real-time sampling (and the relatively limited speed of my 114 pulse generator) since I haven't resumed my battle with the 3T77A. |
Re: Sampling head extender missing coax connectors
Me either.
I finally ended up drilling a small hole in the PC board and mounting a sturdy solder lug, to which I fastened the coax connector and then soldered.. It took quite a bit of fiddling to get it properly lined up with the hole in the casting in all three axes, too. At least nobody can see the hack job inside the case ;) But it is now a useable extender. I'm still not sure how well the trigger pickoff will work at really high frequencies (due to the rigged junctions at the connectors), but I doubt I'll ever work with anything that fast, or on the extender. I really just wanted it for repairing sampling heads. |
Re: Very Inexpensive 7623A, but Problems
A correction: where I wrote that the -15 V rail now measures as -21 V, I should have written that the -18 V rail now measures as -21 V. I appear to have mis-transcribed the spec value for that power rail as -15 V instead of the proper value of -18 V. In any case, that the rail now reads -21 V means that it is much closer to it's spec (at -18 V) than it was before I replaced the big filter cap (C811).
I am tempted to remove the transistors in the -18 V regulator again and duplicate my measurements from before the cap replacement, but I'm not sure that will tell me anything new. I did check the two dual NPN transistors (after building an adapter for my component tester) and they look good (as in they are not shorted, or open, or measure as a resistor or capacitor). Otherwise I can see what measurements the service manual specifies for the horizontal and vertical boards and do those. There are a couple test points there, and I feel as if that is likely to be the next avenue of investigation. I did notice that the horizontal and vertical deflection wires are clearly visible just in front of the horizontal and vertical boards. They appear to be properly connected, but that doesn't mean that they're getting good signals, or that the CRT is responding to them. -- Jeff Dutky |
Re: Very Inexpensive 7623A, but Problems
I have added 19 photos to the "Sick 7623A" album showing the current symptoms and the "check-in" photos I took before doing any work on the instrument.
/g/TekScopes/album?id=260677 |
Re: Tek TLA700 software images. Suitable place to submit them to?
Sandra Carroll
The Boot Hard drive was bad
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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Gary Robert Bosworth Sent: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 8:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [TekScopes] Tek TLA700 software images. Suitable place to submit them to? What is a Primary HD? On Wed, Mar 3, 2021, 15:22 Sandra Carroll <smgvbest@...> wrote: I¡¯ve just been repairing a TLA714 and the primary HD was bad. So this |
Re: Tek TLA700 software images. Suitable place to submit them to?
What is a Primary HD?
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On Wed, Mar 3, 2021, 15:22 Sandra Carroll <smgvbest@...> wrote:
I¡¯ve just been repairing a TLA714 and the primary HD was bad. So this is |
Re: International Orders for Peter Keller's book were MAILED TODAY
Welcome Paul,
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If it's a "Bible" that you want you might also want to check out 'Encyclopedia of the Cathode Ray Oscilloscopes and Their Uses' by John F Rider, 1955. At 998 pages it's big enough to be a Bible! Peter's book is *great* but it's pretty much entirely devoted just to the CRT and it's development but the oscilloscope book covers oscilloscopes and not just CRTs. There are some amazing historical details in it. BTW you're lucky. *All* of the libraries in my area have quite using the inter-library loan service because of the costs. The Dash. On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 11:01 AM Paul Humel <humel@...> wrote:
I'm a newbie who joined this group recently and discovered the overwhelming |
Re: Tek TLA700 software images. Suitable place to submit them to?
Sandra Carroll
I¡¯ve just been repairing a TLA714 and the primary HD was bad. So this is something I¡¯d be interested in
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Sandra Sent from my iPhone 7 Plus On Mar 3, 2021, at 4:45 PM, ulf_r_k via groups.io <ulf_r_k@...> wrote: |
Re: PCB sockets for plug-in xtors/etc.
Here are three sources for Advanced:
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Vince. On 03/03/2021 04:51 PM, Jeff Dutky wrote:
Dennis Tillman wrote:I have seen something similar on GRiD laptops from the early to mid-80s, used for extra low-profile socket mountings on the CPU and FPU, for example. The original strips had a seal or gasket just like the Tek sockets. I was unable to find modern equivalents with the seal/gasket. I ended up ordering several strips of Advanced Interconnections Peel-A-Way sockets, but my sources for those have subsequently dried up. --
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Re: 547 HV Transformer: Bill Schell rewind failed
On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 01:19 PM, snapdiode wrote:
It didn't run for more than 30 minutes, and then failed ... or you didn't run it for more than 30 minutes? .... and then you turned it off. (In which case the working state is unknown.) |
Re: WSTRO, WSTROU, WSTRM WaveStar Software for Scopes & Meters
Mine worked perfect.
Gary On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 10:19 AM Dennis Tillman W7pF <dennis@...> wrote: Sometime ago I bought a sealed copy of this Tek software:-- Gary Robert Bosworth grbosworth@... Tel: 310-317-2247 |
Re: PCB sockets for plug-in xtors/etc.
Dennis Tillman wrote:
I'm only guessing that it's silicone. I've not gotten a great look at it, actually. I thought, in the GRiD laptops, that it was a solid seal over the top of the socket, based on first encountering it in the sockets for an unpopulated 8087, but that may also be inaccurate. -- Jeff Dutky |
Re: Very Inexpensive 7623A, but Problems
One thing that I've noticed on Tek equipment, is that the pin one indication is a triangle pointing to the pin.? The cable connectors are similarly labeled.? I liked it so much that it's what I use on my PC boards.
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I've also seen the pc land for pin 1 set to a square rather than a circle. Harvey On 3/3/2021 4:21 PM, Jeff Dutky wrote:
Jean-Paul, |
Re: PCB sockets for plug-in xtors/etc.
Sorry, Dennis, wrong question before. what is the spacing of the three pins and are the spacing angles 120¡ã? Or, what pattern?
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The datasheet at DigiKey does not come up. Larry On 3/3/2021 11:02 AM, Dennis Tillman W7pF wrote:
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Best wishes, Larry McDavid W6FUB Anaheim, California (SE of Los Angeles, near Disneyland) |
Re: TDS3064B "ripple" on calibrator signal
Unfortunately that isn't the problem ? Also tried other probes.
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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Dave Peterson via groups.io Sent: 03 March 2021 16:08 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [TekScopes] TDS3064B "ripple" on calibrator signal David, In my limited experience, I have seen this behavior before, but it's always been due to probe issues. |
Re: PCB sockets for plug-in xtors/etc.
Dennis Tillman wrote:
I have seen something similar on GRiD laptops from the early to mid-80s, used for extra low-profile socket mountings on the CPU and FPU, for example. The original strips had a seal or gasket just like the Tek sockets. I was unable to find modern equivalents with the seal/gasket. I ended up ordering several strips of Advanced Interconnections Peel-A-Way sockets, but my sources for those have subsequently dried up. -- Jeff Dutky |
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