Re: Tektronix 454A Oscilloscope No Trace but Beam Finder works fine?
Thank you Ben for the detailed info - I really appreciate it! Here are my measurements for the reference points you listed:
Junction between C369 and L369: 12.04V
L343 (any side is fine for just
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Jeffrey Wang
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Re: Repair Tektronix TDS 520
Thanks for the reply. Today I unsoldered about 20 chips that were near the capacitors to see if there were any interruptions in the conductor tracks. I didn't find any interruption.
How do you think
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Paul
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Re: Tektronix 454A Oscilloscope No Trace but Beam Finder works fine?
- Adjusted Ch1 var and the "uncal" light is off, as I mentioned in post #207706
- The var for A & B time base is in detent, as you can see clearly in my video. That said, I cleaned the pot and it
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Jeffrey Wang
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Re: Tektronix 454A Oscilloscope No Trace but Beam Finder works fine?
Jeffrey,
The uncal lights and x5 lights are still on. The uncal lights should turn off when you go to the detent position which you will feel. As others have said, the switch could be dirty making
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Mark Vincent
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Re: Tektronix 454A Oscilloscope No Trace but Beam Finder works fine?
Still trying to get a bit further without having to take measurements may yield more info.
If both channels show the same behavior: Since bad contacts are rather frequent with old equipment like
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Raymond Domp Frank
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Re: Tektronix 454A Oscilloscope No Trace but Beam Finder works fine?
[email protected]> wrote:
If this is your first scope repair, you might want to read through this
wonderful document: https://w140.com/tekwiki/images/5/5d/068-0315-00.pdf.
This is from a time when
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Sigur?ur ?sgeirsson
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Re: Tektronix 454A Oscilloscope No Trace but Beam Finder works fine?
Also I doubt it's user error. Cal lights are likely from bad switch contacts as it looks like the knobs are indeed in the dented position.
Sure but since OP did not mention it¡
Raymond
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Raymond Domp Frank
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Re: Tektronix 454A Oscilloscope No Trace but Beam Finder works fine?
That means, no trace without beam finder unless external trigger.¡
No it doesn¡¯t because auto-trigger is on¡
Did you try channel 2? same result?
Did you play with vertical positions? Both
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Raymond Domp Frank
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Re: Tektronix 454A Oscilloscope No Trace but Beam Finder works fine?
You can begin troubleshooting the vertical amplifier by chacking voltages at specified test points. They will tell us a lot.
Go to https://w140.com/tekwiki/wiki/454 and download the 454A manual, not
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Benjamin Badrakh
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Re: Tektronix 454A Oscilloscope No Trace but Beam Finder works fine?
Center the vertical positioning control with the sensitivity at 1 volt/cm or greater (minimizes signal pickup).
ground vertical input.
at the vertical deflection plates, measure the voltages.? They
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Harvey White
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Re: Tektronix TDS8000 - Backup calibration parameters and other important stuff
Steps I did on my TDS8000, I hope it might be useful to somebody in the future:
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Wevie
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Re: Tektronix 454A Oscilloscope No Trace but Beam Finder works fine?
From your settings, it¡¯s my impression that user error still plays a role here:
- Ch1 ampl. still shows ¡°uncal¡±. Not a cause for no trace but you don¡¯t seem to know it does not match what you
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Raymond Domp Frank
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Re: Tektronix 454A Oscilloscope No Trace but Beam Finder works fine?
I shot another video to demo the current situation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_pNMTIXrTc
How do I troubleshoot the vertical amplifier board?
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Jeffrey Wang
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Re: Tektronix 454A Oscilloscope No Trace but Beam Finder works fine?
Thank you for the info. I shot another video to demonstrate the issue. I have virtually tested all vertical and horizontal sensitivity combinations to no avail. I just realized that the UNCAL light
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Jeffrey Wang
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Re: Tristar processor
Hello Gianni,
maybe Dorit and I can get you the paper, if it is helpful. But it will
take some time.
If yes, please let me know via a private email.
Tam
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With best regards
Tam HANNA
Enjoy
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Tam Hanna
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Re: Substitute parts for 12au6s on 575 curve tracer
Hi Anita,
While you are at it, if you haven't already done them, you might want to take a look at the Tek list of "factory updates/mods" for the 575. There are a BUNCH of them. I'm wading my way
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Keith
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Re: Tektronix 454A Oscilloscope No Trace but Beam Finder works fine?
?ann m¨¢n., 23. des. 2024 kl. 03:39 skrifa?i Jeffrey Wang via groups.io
<xwsunrise@...>:
For most of the video your vertical sensitivity was set to 20mV/DIV, which
is way too
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Sigur?ur ?sgeirsson
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Re: Tektronix 454A Oscilloscope No Trace but Beam Finder works fine?
To me it looks like the beam is being vertically deflected a lot.
You mentioned yoy adjusted "position", but in your video the channel 1 vertical position is all the way counter clockwise, so the
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Benjamin Badrakh
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Tektronix 454A Oscilloscope No Trace but Beam Finder works fine?
Got a Tek 454A the other day and did a quick test. It turns out that the only way to see a trace on the screen is to hold down the ¡°Beam Finder¡± switch. As soon as it was released, the trace was
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Jeffrey Wang
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Re: SC503 -12V power supply
Hi Barry,
My comments are inline below.
Ozan
Noted.
At -15.1V this test doesn't say much about Q8051 (output is not completely cut off even if Q8051 was fully on) but see the note below for
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Ozan
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