Re: Advice about buying a 7904
The fan on my 7904A is very quiet, a non issue on mine at least. I suggest that the most important thing will be finding the best instrument available around your location. Packing properly is
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Bob Koller <testtech@...>
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Re: Advice about buying a 7904
Thanks for all the responses. I also hate fan noise. That and more readily available parts make the 7904 preferable. However, I'll also look into the 7854.
As I have a Tek 11801 and HP 16702B and
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Reginald Beardsley
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#167591
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Mystery part Type 576 Curve tracer.
All:
Now that I have got my 576 working reliably, I was going to start calibration and I found a pair of what appear to be silicone washers laying in the bottom of the unit. I have no idea where
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Michael W. Lynch
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Re: 475 questions
Bruce,
There are 2 fundamental differences that need to be taken in to account when replacing ¡°vintage¡± caps. And I use the term vintage loosely. One is tolerance. In the worst case I can
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Eric
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Re: Advice about buying a 7904
I had a 7904A recently for a short time.
The fan was one reason I sold it - the noise is obnoxious to me. I don't think there was anything wrong with the fan, but I'm sensitive to that white noise -
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saipan59 (Pete)
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Re: 475 questions
It might help if I posted the values of the capacitors that were originally in the scope. I'll do this below in the quoted text.
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ciclista41@...
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Re: Tek 4041 GPIB Controller
I just finished creating the binary files for each of the Option ROMs v2.1 and also a 16bit binary that could be used for disassembly and posted them in the ROMs folder on my github repository for the
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Monty McGraw
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Re: Advice about buying a 7904
I can speak of this from the 7904 perspective, since I have two that work, and some backup parts sources,
I had 7904's available, and no 7904As.
the 7A19 are the "appropriate" plugin for a 500 mhz
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Harvey White
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Re: 475 questions
As a precaution, some switching supplies don't work well with a voltage below the operating voltage.
For a linear supply, as the voltage to the supply rises, the regulator generally (if it has a
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Harvey White
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Re: probe.
I stand corrected. Sometimes you can teach an old dog new tricks! ;)
Thanks, Raymond!
Jim
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Jim Ford
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Re: Advice about buying a 7904
Issues and features that I recall:
7904 has lots of tantalum caps, and a couple are bound to blow.
They are easy to find and fix.
7904 has a weak power supply that can't handle many of the
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Chuck Harris <cfharris@...>
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Re: 475 questions
?Hi folks,
Here's my proposed parts order on Digi-Key, except that I haven't decided between the first or second set of tantalums. The caps below those are to replace the large C1412, 14, 42, 52,
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ciclista41@...
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Re: Advice about buying a 7904
My email should have read ¡°no well-known problems¡±.
I had both a 7904 and a 7904A; I gave the 7904 away to a good home when I moved across the country, reducing my collection to five 7xxx
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Dave Daniel
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Re: Advice about buying a 7904
Hi Reginald,
Advantages of the 7904A over the 7904:
- Newer, so possibly less failure-prone
- Easier to service because of split construction
- Front panel layout very much like the 7104 (or is that
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Raymond Domp Frank
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Re: Tek 4041 GPIB Controller
We can get the 4041 service manual scanned from the vintagetek.org microfiche library of all Tektronix documentation - after COVID-19 is over. Right now Oregon is still in lockdown. They only charge
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Monty McGraw
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Re: Advice about buying a 7904
Reg,
As you may know from our prior conversations, I have both a 7104 and a 7904A. The 7904A is definitely my workhorse because, as you mention, I want to preserve and protect the mcp tube in the
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Sean Turner
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Re: Advice about buying a 7904
The 7904A is easier to wotk pne because it has the ¡°kickstand¡± feature where one can split the display section up off of the lower section to make repairs. I¡¯ve never compared the specs of a
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Dave Daniel
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Advice about buying a 7904
I have a 485 and a 7104. The fragile CRT of the latter discourages regular use unless needed. Reed refurbished my 485 and obviously it's a really fine instrument.
I'm mulling over getting a 7904 for
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Reginald Beardsley
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Re: 475 questions
IIRC, only the 432, 434, and 485 had switchers.
The 485 was much like a 7K with the Tek-made controller chip. The 43X's
were discrete.
-ls-
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teamlarryohio
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Re: 475 questions
Hey guys! Look at me with my newly acquired acronyms! ;-)
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ciclista41@...
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