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Another Tek tunnel diode pulser 017-086 - Manual, anyone?

 

I picked up a Tek 017-086 TD pulser a while back. It is self contained and about twice the size of its GR connector. Power is from 2 internal coin cells. Risetime printed on it is <.2ns (200ps). It turns on automatically when a 50 ohm termination is present. I put it together with a GR to BNCm 50 ohm feedthru termination. Plugs directly into a scope input. Of course it can be put on a probe end with suitable adapters.

No muss, no fuss, no 100 volt input pulses needed.

Does anyone have a manual or data sheet for this pulser? I'm curious about flatness and aberrations. What product family was it intended for? It's faster than most of the pulsers I've seen, except for my Tek 284, and much more convenient.

Regards,
Cliff

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--- In TekScopes@..., "Cliff Carrie" <cliffcarrie@h...>
wrote:
I picked up a Tek 017-086 TD pulser a while back.
Does anyone have a manual or data sheet for this pulser? I'm
curious about
flatness and aberrations. What product family was it intended for?
It's
faster than most of the pulsers I've seen, except for my Tek 284,
and much
more convenient.

Regards,
Cliff
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I have browsed through the cataloges from the time (1965 - 1968) and
have not found it mentioned anywhere. I do have a datasheet but
unfortunately it's only schematic and parts list and no specs. It's
available at .
/Zenith
 

--- In TekScopes@..., "zenith5106" <hahi@t...> wrote:
--- In TekScopes@..., "Cliff Carrie" <cliffcarrie@h...>
wrote:
I picked up a Tek 017-086 TD pulser a while back.
Does anyone have a manual or data sheet for this pulser? I'm
curious about
flatness and aberrations. What product family was it intended
for?
It's
faster than most of the pulsers I've seen, except for my Tek 284,
and much
more convenient.

Regards,
Cliff
---------
I have browsed through the cataloges from the time (1965 - 1968)
and
have not found it mentioned anywhere. I do have a datasheet but
unfortunately it's only schematic and parts list and no specs. It's
available at .
/Zenith
The link should be (no dot at the
end).
/Zenith
Craig Sawyers
 

From Zenith's data sheet, the tunnel diode is a 152-0099-00, which is a
50mA/6pF device. Calculated switching time for this would be faster than
60ps - but it all depends on the layout. Any additional stray capacitance
would slow the time down. It says in the data sheet that it is on a
"circuit board assembly" which could add several pF and a few nH - hence the
specified <200ps rather than anything faster.

It is really neat though - compact and small.

The much larger 067-0513-00 has a diode in a tiny disc-like package (100mA,
6pF - so <30ps), incorporated into a GR air-line - a bit like the way it is
done in the 284. The aim is to make it think it is in a matched
transmission line. It goes like stink with a <30ps fall time (so no
performance degradation from layout) and is battery powered. There is one
on eBay at the moment.

Craig

-----Original Message-----
From: Cliff Carrie [mailto:cliffcarrie@...]
Sent: 20 March 2004 20:36
To: TekScopes@...
Subject: [TekScopes] Another Tek tunnel diode pulser 017-086 - Manual,
anyone?


I picked up a Tek 017-086 TD pulser a while back. It is self
contained and
about twice the size of its GR connector. Power is from 2 internal coin
cells. Risetime printed on it is <.2ns (200ps). It turns on
automatically
when a 50 ohm termination is present. I put it together with a GR
to BNCm 50
ohm feedthru termination. Plugs directly into a scope input. Of course it
can be put on a probe end with suitable adapters.

No muss, no fuss, no 100 volt input pulses needed.

Does anyone have a manual or data sheet for this pulser? I'm
curious about
flatness and aberrations. What product family was it intended for? It's
faster than most of the pulsers I've seen, except for my Tek 284,
and much
more convenient.

Regards,
Cliff

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Stan & Patricia Griffiths
 

This neat little device was known as the "Pocket Pipper" and was used by Tek
Sales Engineers to put a fast pulse into competitor's sampling scopes at
electronics shows, among other things. Since most sampling scopes had GR
connectors on them already and were 50 ohm inputs, just plugging the little
pulser on the input of a sampling scope produced a fast pulse (and sometimes
really embarrassed the competition!)

Stan
w7ni@...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cliff Carrie" <cliffcarrie@...>
To: <TekScopes@...>
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 12:35 PM
Subject: [TekScopes] Another Tek tunnel diode pulser 017-086 - Manual,
anyone?


I picked up a Tek 017-086 TD pulser a while back. It is self contained and
about twice the size of its GR connector. Power is from 2 internal coin
cells. Risetime printed on it is <.2ns (200ps). It turns on automatically
when a 50 ohm termination is present. I put it together with a GR to BNCm
50
ohm feedthru termination. Plugs directly into a scope input. Of course it
can be put on a probe end with suitable adapters.

No muss, no fuss, no 100 volt input pulses needed.

Does anyone have a manual or data sheet for this pulser? I'm curious about
flatness and aberrations. What product family was it intended for? It's
faster than most of the pulsers I've seen, except for my Tek 284, and much
more convenient.

Regards,
Cliff

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