Re: Vintage Sampling versus Modern/Digital Oscilloscopes
I will second the vote for the TDS220. They're readily available for cheap these days (CRINGE when I think what I paid for mine when it was new!), and they were the first or nearly the first of the
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Steve Hendrix
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Re: Fault Finding with a Millivolt Meter
Re: Thermal imaging cameras There are now some very reasonably priced thermal imaging cameras that will plug into a tablet or cell phone (used for the control software and display). Examples: FLIR One
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stevenhorii
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Re: Vintage Sampling versus Modern/Digital Oscilloscopes
I'm going to go out on a limb and disagree with much of what has already been advised to you. I get your desire to concentrate on hollow state gear, and stick with the older stuff that interests you.
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Jim Adney
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2465 Horizontal Calibration
I have a question on the horizontal calibration where the service manual says to align certain time markers and to "superimpose the delayed B Sweep time markers". Does that mean to: (A) Superimpose
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Jimbert
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3B3 Time Base Interesting Problem
Have a cosmetically extremely nice 3B3 timebase that I have finally gotten around to restoring. Did a thorough cleaning, cleaned all contacts, lubricated, and tested all tubes and transistors.
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Jerome D Leach
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Re: DM501A Input Leakage Source
Hi Gudjon, Good work! I imagine that the piece you milled is, in effect, an extension of the switch body to the ¡°free space¡± beyond the pcb to enable the sliding part of the switch to be assembled
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romeo987
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Re: TDS540 repair; drifting vertical position at start-up
Brilliant, thanks Ozan. I'll see what I can find out from that. Ralph
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RJ
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Re: Dual pot for storage intensity on a 466
Try Qservice, which is based in Europe (Greece, I think) and may have what you need. See https://www.qservice.tv/vpasp/shopdisplayproducts.asp?page=11&id=210
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Dave Voorhis
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Re: Fault Finding with a Millivolt Meter
James 55:Some of the discussion , is now far afield...eg lockin amps and IR cams like killing fly's with nukes'. TSHOOT LOGIC: The TEK manuals have very fine flowcharts for testing PSU and other
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Jean-Paul
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Re: Fault Finding with a Millivolt Meter
I can confirm that those caps have a relatively high failure rate, so if you're seeing a lot of ripple and/or a low average voltage across them, out they should go. Tom -- Prof. Thomas H. Lee Allen
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Tom Lee
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Re: Fault Finding with a Millivolt Meter
James: A comment about the 455 with the low +95v rail that you described:? Check the following components: C582: 2.2 ufd cap, electrolytic, 2.2 ufd +50/-10%, 160V C584: 2.0 ufd cap, electrolytic, 2.0
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Mike Dinolfo
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Re: What's the value of a C-12 camera: both the idea of what it can be used for, and is it worth anything more than being a door stop?
What a great bit of feedback! Thank you all for your thoughts. To answer the one question I saw: It's the Polaroid type. George, it was your blog post I was referring to when I mentioned the shelf
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G Hopper, KB7WSD
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Re: Fault Finding with a Millivolt Meter
Greetings yet again <grin> Everybody does. Actually, there's no reason why that isn't a good approach.? The advantage with the color codes and mV readings is that the same readings show you where the
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Harvey White
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Re: Fault Finding with a Millivolt Meter
Hi again Harvey and chaps. One thing has become clear today, and that is that I shall need some time honing the skill necessary for using a millivolt tester to find faults So, after spending several
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James55
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Re: Dual pot for storage intensity on a 466
David, https://www.sphere.bc.ca/test/tek-parts/tekpots.html Mark
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Mark Vincent
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Re: TDS540 repair; drifting vertical position at start-up
First thing to check is if any of the supplies has the same pattern. If supplies look good, one area that affects all the positions (and other control voltages) is sheets <18> and <19> "DAC Control".
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Ozan
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Re: Vintage Sampling versus Modern/Digital Oscilloscopes
Gentlemen, I thank you for the input. At this point, I think I will attempt to employ the sampling route as far as is possible. I am aware of some of the limitations such as the requirement for
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Jerome D Leach
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Re: DM501A Input Leakage Source
Hi Roman Now I have tested cleaning a 20V range switch without unsoldering it. I had to mill a U-shaped plastic piece to fit the connector sleeves into to be able to reassemble the switch. The 200mV,
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Gudjon Gudjonsson
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Re: Help with diagnosis of Tek 2465 Power Supply Problem
Ozan, Thanks for the explanation. I failed to consider the inductance in the transformer T1050. The manual did say that T1050 is part of the buck converter. I ran a simulation with the primary and
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Luca
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Re: What's the value of a C-12 camera: both the idea of what it can be used for, and is it worth anything more than being a door stop?
we have excellent scope photos with an iPhone 7 and 11 no usb or files transfer and fast turn on Jon
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Jean-Paul
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