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Re: List your test equipment "scores" here!
« Reply #2100 on: August 11, 2018, 01:09:20 am »
Wow, $20 a piece is great. :-+
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Re: List your test equipment "scores" here!
« Reply #2101 on: August 11, 2018, 06:58:28 am »
Damn, you made out like a bandit!  Congrats, and post pics!

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Re: List your test equipment "scores" here!
« Reply #2102 on: August 11, 2018, 07:10:59 am »
Dang now thats a score!
 

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Re: List your test equipment "scores" here!
« Reply #2103 on: August 11, 2018, 10:59:28 am »
I'm guessing you've seen most of the gear I got in action already, so I won't bother you with it but this Marconi gear is pretty neat. I proudly present the Marconi 2383 4.2GHz SA!

Notable facts:
- Proudly made in the UK.
- Old. Anyone any clue?
- Calibrated untill 2017 (I kid you not). With a waiver because it missed the targt by 0.04dB  ::)
- Tracking gen(shown active in the pictureover the full span. Kinda wonder where the dip comes from. Seems to shift frequencies too  :o)
- Heavy. Like a boat anchor. For the Titanic.
- None of this funny "menu" stuff. Everything has dedicated keys. Except for a few "shift" functions. But I imagine that once you get the hang of this thing you'd be twice as fast as on one of those newfangled menu pieces of gear.
- 100Hz (!) to 4.2GHz
- RBW 3Hz

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Re: List your test equipment "scores" here!
« Reply #2104 on: August 11, 2018, 01:35:17 pm »
Scored an Owon SDS8102 for AU$90, reported as 'turns on once if turned off need to wait to turn on again'. Turns out the PSU had issues, all repaired now and working fine.

PS: updated firmware, seems to work nice enough, I think its a score...

PPS: Also scored a 7L12 for my Tek 7603, FREE, this was a happy day!
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Re: List your test equipment "scores" here!
« Reply #2105 on: August 11, 2018, 06:21:36 pm »
Yep, sounds like an SMPS. Nicely done.
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Re: List your test equipment "scores" here!
« Reply #2106 on: August 31, 2018, 01:19:44 pm »
I just bought a new U1282A for AUD$405 delivered (from eBay Singapore), the guy says he has a couple more to sell. It was a late night purchase and I may have had a few refreshments at the time, have to wait and see what arrives..

Update, it arrived well packaged and is indeed a brand new meter and works exactly as advertised. He has now raised the price to $670 though.. :D
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Re: List your test equipment "scores" here!
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« Reply #2108 on: September 04, 2018, 09:28:52 am »
Quite the haul.

That HP Synthesizer down there looks rather interesting.
 

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Re: List your test equipment "scores" here!
« Reply #2109 on: September 04, 2018, 11:12:22 am »
That HP Synthesizer down there looks rather interesting.

If you look closely you'll find it's two, actually ;)

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« Reply #2110 on: September 04, 2018, 03:30:22 pm »
Nice!!   :-+ :-+

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« Reply #2111 on: September 04, 2018, 04:26:20 pm »
Those 866x's weigh a ton. I have one that FedEx dropped and the whole 10MHz reference section broke free. They're great sig gens though.

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« Reply #2112 on: September 04, 2018, 04:36:45 pm »
That HP Synthesizer down there looks rather interesting.

If you look closely you'll find it's two, actually ;)

Oh i see now. You lucky bastard.
 

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Re: List your test equipment "scores" here!
« Reply #2113 on: September 04, 2018, 05:28:15 pm »
Oh i see now. You lucky bastard.

Eh, well, if you're interested drop me a line ;)

And yes, they are heavy. Tend to have a "2 man carry" sticker or some such.

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« Reply #2114 on: September 04, 2018, 05:59:37 pm »

Eh, well, if you're interested drop me a line ;)

And yes, they are heavy. Tend to have a "2 man carry" sticker or some such.

Being a high performance piece of RF test gear from the 80s i would certainly believe it has quite a bit of gravity to it. At first i have mistaken it from the photos of being an even higher spec model, but after some more looking i now see that its probably a HP 8663A.

I could certainly be interested in one, but i would imagine the price of it being more of an issue.
 

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Re: List your test equipment "scores" here!
« Reply #2115 on: September 04, 2018, 06:14:38 pm »
May well be. I'll send you a PM anyways. Should give you a chuckle at least ;)

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« Reply #2116 on: September 23, 2018, 09:37:48 pm »
Scored a new Analog Discovery 2  on eBay for $100.  It was listed for $150 but thought I'd put in an offer of $100 and it was accepted.  :-+

 I already own an AD1 but I like it so much and am afraid it I will eventually kill it - so I couldn't pass up the chance to get a second one for a good price. 

Hmm - I wonder if the software will let me run 2 instances on the same computer? A 4 channel AD?  Probably not. But I do have 2 laptops I could run side by side... :)
 

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« Reply #2117 on: September 24, 2018, 04:34:31 am »
Nice score, mtdoc! That's the kind of price I see used AD1 sell for.

Yes, you can run multiple instances of the Wave software. Just choose the AD1 on one instance and the AD2 on the other. Then, utilize the external trigger input(s) to sync them up.
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Re: List your test equipment "scores" here!
« Reply #2118 on: September 24, 2018, 04:55:07 am »
Nice score, mtdoc! That's the kind of price I see used AD1 sell for.
Thanks. Yeah, the funny thing is I offered $100 for this used AD1 (still available for $130) and was rejected.  That is still a reasonable price for a AD1 but I'm a stingy bastard - especially when I really don't *need* something.


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Yes, you can run multiple instances of the Wave software. Just choose the AD1 on one instance and the AD2 on the other. Then, utilize the external trigger input(s) to sync them up.
  Cool! Thanks. :-+
 

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« Reply #2119 on: October 10, 2018, 12:46:38 am »
A couple more recent scores from bottom-feeding on eBay.

An HP 8662A RF generator sold as "working", and it basically was, but a couple of the synthesizer loops were intermittently losing lock. A few adjustments cleared it up, and now working fine. $300.

A Tektronix 492 spectrum analyzer. Sold as "needs work", needs new PSU caps and has a touchy rotary encoder.  CRT nice and bright without phosphor burns, and mixer/attenuator working OK. $250.
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« Reply #2120 on: October 17, 2018, 02:49:09 am »
Late night ebay shopping again. Had to reload the listing 5 times, just kept reading it over and over wondering what I was missing. The listing used a "stock" image and not the real product but the price was crazy low. I figured what the heck and clicked the buy it now button.

I was very pleased when this arrived today:

Agilent 85093C 300 kHz to 9 GHz 2 port E-Cal unit with male and female 3.5 mm connectors, the box, USB cable and both torque wrenches. Last cal was in 2016(not bad at all). All for the whopping price of $100 USD + $16.81 for shipping. I can only assume it was a pricing error as they are usually listed for 15 to 20 times that. I figured maybe they would just issue a refund but instead it was shipped. Not my best ebay deal, but it sure rates up there.

Once everything was warmed up I performed a cal using it and then connected my mechanical cal kit to both ports - the return loss looks excellent!
Now if only I can find a cheap one that happens to go to 26.5 GHz to match the full range of the VNA. :)


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Re: List your test equipment "scores" here!
« Reply #2121 on: October 17, 2018, 03:05:25 am »
I was very pleased when this arrived today:

Now if only I can find a cheap one that happens to go to 26.5 GHz to match the full range of the VNA. :)

That is awesome....those little gems are $$$$$$

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Re: List your test equipment "scores" here!
« Reply #2122 on: October 17, 2018, 05:03:05 am »
Now that's not a brain that's a steal!

Also curious about the VNA since the things are expensive even at a few Ghz and rapidly go up from there
 

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Re: List your test equipment "scores" here!
« Reply #2123 on: October 17, 2018, 08:45:30 am »
Late night ebay shopping again.
You have been lucky many times.
Great catch!
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« Reply #2124 on: October 18, 2018, 09:25:35 am »
I'm rather new to the field having only a bit over a year at community college as an electronics technician, so I've been trying to collect some basic pieces for my home setup. I have a few pieces of older equipment that I got pretty cheap from my sister's university to fix up and resell to pay for some newer gear to keep.  I'll have to double check the model numbers in the morning for some, but I have
a tektronix logic analyzer for $40,
a nicolet 3091 oscilloscope for $35, but the CRT doesn't work in it and it's only 500khz,
a HP 4329A high resistance meter for $10 that only needed the glass reglued (it was sold because someone grabbed it, pushed the glass in and wedged the meter in place but otherwise works fine),
two Tektronix CFG250 2mhz function generators for $10/ea,
and a tektronix CDM250 multimeter for $10.  These will be listed on ebay soon to fund the gear I bought that I plan to keep for myself.

So far for myself I've purchased
an Extech EX623 handheld DMM for $70,
a Bitscope BS310 USB Oscilloscope ("BS310 combines a dual channel digital storage oscilloscope and 8 channel logic analyzer with an arbitrary waveform generator, real-time spectrum analyzer and data recorder in a virtually indestructible package") for $150 + a free raspberry pi,
a GW Instek GDM-8251A multimeter for $170,
a Siglent SDS1202X-E oscilloscope for $150,
a GW INSTEK GPS-3303 power supply for $100

Not amazing deals, but so far I'm still able to make profit off the sales I think lol
 


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