Re: Tektronix 454A Oscilloscope No Trace but Beam Finder works fine?
I¡¯ve been troubleshooting the oscilloscope further, focusing mainly on the Vertical Amplifier board. I¡¯ve attached pictures of the boards and the schematic diagram from the service manual, with
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Jeffrey Wang
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Re: SC503 -12V power supply
Ozan,
Apologies for calling you Onan in a previous post!
I also installed a new 2N2219. But installing the 2N3565 was the part that brought it to life!
I will upgrade to a 2N2219A when it comes
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Barry Breaux
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#207777
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Re: SC503 -12V power supply
Hi Barry,
Good news. We did try shorting C-E of Q8051 and it didn't change the output, it should have eliminated any effect of Q8051 as the only root cause, i.e. there must have been something in
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Ozan
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Re: 80E04 sampling module - fair price?
If you do a Google search on "TDS8000" ... and click on 'images'... you will see that... about 90%... of those pictures show the TDS8000 frame sans the 'heads"
Now why is that?
I reckon... the heads
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Roy Thistle
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Re: DSA 602, Still Relevant Today? Untimely response FWIW
Gianni,
That post was on 12 December, and you posted that you were expecting the DSA on the 15th. I'm not sure if I'm more disturbed that you found time to lay out 100 pages with text, photographs,
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Adam R. Maxwell
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#207774
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Re: DSA 602, Still Relevant Today? Untimely response FWIW
Triggered by the original post by be_moulton, I got a DSA and wrote some notes.
You can find theme here: http://www.k100.biz/ebooks/DSA602Alowres.pdf ,if you,like.
Any comment welcome, you are
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Gianni Becattini
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#207773
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Re: SC503 -12V power supply
I finally got to the bottom of this! A great learning for me. The bottom line is that the Q8051 transistor needs a lot of gain to drive 2n2219A. The original transistor was a PN3565, 151-0341. The
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Barry Breaux
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Re: DSA Histograms
Thanks!
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Gianni Becattini
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Re: Solder - Tin/Silver or Tin/Lead/Silver?
Hi Richard,
The lead free solder does indeed have a higher silver level and a considerably higher melting temperature than the usual silver-bearing leaded variety.
In addition to the preferred usage
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Art S
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#207770
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80E04 sampling module - fair price?
Hi all,
After my TDS8000 eBay bargain turned out to be a nicely working unit, I¡¯m now looking for the expensive part, a Tektronix 80E04 sampling head.
I know those modules are for sale on sites
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Wevie
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#207769
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Re: Solder - Tin/Silver or Tin/Lead/Silver?
I have used lead free solder with success on the ceramic strips. The solder used was Kester 24-7068-1402 Sn96.5 Ag3.0 Cu0.5. My current understanding is the issue is not the lead it is the LACK of
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Zentronics42@...
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Re: DSA Histograms
If we're talking about the same thing, it's an overlay of multiple waveforms.? What it shows is how long the transition takes and how uncertain it is (in time), and where the stable part of the
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Harvey White
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#207767
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DSA Histograms
Hi,
I am playing around with the DSA 602A and I am rather confused by histograms. I could create them, but I cannot imagine a way to make them useful (the manual does not say what they are
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Gianni Becattini
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#207766
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Solder - Tin/Silver or Tin/Lead/Silver?
Apologies if this has been answered but I couldn't find in a search:
I'm about to restore my first piece of Tek kit. understand the potential issue with the silver deposit ceramic strips and have
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Richard Kelly
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#207765
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Re: unable to adjust 7904 focus amplifier
For the archives: the transistors finally arrived, and replacing Q1769 fixed the 7904 autofocus issue, allowing me to complete all the steps in the Z-axis service procedure. Ironically, the readout
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Adam R. Maxwell
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#207764
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Re: 7000 ESD Safe dust cleaning?
I tried it with a 7704A that was pretty filthy, after reading the article here on scope washing and noticing the photo on the last page is of a 7K scope being washed at the Factory Service
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Adam R. Maxwell
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Re: 7000 ESD Safe dust cleaning?
Hello all,
Many thanks for the tips
Was not so, bad nor encrusted, just a soft brush and gently blowing, then isopropyl alcohol. About ESD the scope was grounded, damp and rainy weather.
The
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Jean-Paul
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#207762
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Re: 7000 ESD Safe dust cleaning?
Forgot to mention - in real anti-static work environments it's common to have grounding leads or other conductors to keep any air or vacuum nozzles from charging. You can do that too easily enough, if
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ed breya
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Re: 7000 ESD Safe dust cleaning?
Check the dust with your fingers before going through a lot of effort. On most old gear I've seen, there is a "loose" dust coating that wipes or blows off easily, but underneath there's a gritty hard
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ed breya
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#207760
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TDS540 not booting, "Flashrom header checksum failed"
Hi,
I recently picked up the hobby of ( trying to ) repairing old test equipment and got a TDS540.
I have been trying to get it to boot up but it is stuck with a flashrom checksum error.
It seems
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hansgt21@...
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#207759
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