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bd139 · « **Reply #13450 on:** July 20, 2018, 03:09:52 pm »

This is a nice item for a nice price: https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F192603919864

MegaZoom, 100mhz and 16 bit analyser and rs232 pod for £120. Tempted but I really don’t need it.

med6753 · « **Reply #13451 on:** July 20, 2018, 03:36:29 pm »

Quote from: bd139 on July 20, 2018, 02:59:39 pm

All these photos are making me miss my 465 now

BTW you can pop the lids off on the attenuator modules. They are thin film printed resistors. Might be able to identify why it died. I’ve seen some that had burns and bubbled ones. The latter mostly worked if you gave them a poke.

I found one on E-bay for $15 delivered so I went ahead and ordered it. But I will pull this one apart and see if I can determine what's wrong with it.

med6753 · « **Reply #13452 on:** July 20, 2018, 03:38:46 pm »

Quote from: bd139 on July 20, 2018, 03:09:52 pm

This is a nice item for a nice price: https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F192603919864

MegaZoom, 100mhz and 16 bit analyser and rs232 pod for £120. Tempted but I really don’t need it.

You know you want it!

Cerebus · « **Reply #13453 on:** July 20, 2018, 03:52:41 pm »

Quote from: bd139 on July 20, 2018, 03:09:52 pm

This is a nice item for a nice price: https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F192603919864

MegaZoom, 100mhz and 16 bit analyser and rs232 pod for £120. Tempted but I really don’t need it.

Agreed that's a good price, people often ask stupid money for the older HP digital scopes. I'm tempted, I always am when an HP scope pops up, but the 200Ms/s sample rate is a bit of a killer. Mega-zoom works beautifully, much better than many modern digital scopes, but with an effective bandwidth of 20-40MHz in single shot mode it's rather wasted.

bd139 · « **Reply #13454 on:** July 20, 2018, 04:00:11 pm »

They’re definitely better for repetitive signals. 50Mhz single shot which isn’t too bad on the 54645d.

Slightly tempted as I’ve got half of one’s worth of parts in the cupboard (my SMD rework tests were done on the motherboard of a 54600). Only problem is the analyser pods go for more than the scope and this comes with none.

Decisions decisions.

bd139 · « **Reply #13455 on:** July 20, 2018, 04:04:02 pm »

YOLO. I pulled the trigger. Just seen the prices the things are selling for as well.

To note these came out, well the earlier 54600’s did, when I was at university so I’ve got a soft spot for them. I’d actually get to the labs early so I could use one instead of the shitty 20mhz cack boxes they used.

med6753 · « **Reply #13456 on:** July 20, 2018, 04:06:55 pm »

Quote from: bd139 on July 20, 2018, 04:04:02 pm

YOLO. I pulled the trigger. Just seen the prices the things are selling for as well.

To note these came out, well the earlier 54600’s did, when I was at university so I’ve got a soft spot for them. I’d actually get to the labs early so I could use one instead of the shitty 20mhz cack boxes they used.

I knew you would! Good boy!

bd139 · « **Reply #13457 on:** July 20, 2018, 04:07:24 pm »

That’s your fault for egging me on

tggzzz · « **Reply #13458 on:** July 20, 2018, 04:07:57 pm »

Quote from: bd139 on July 20, 2018, 04:04:02 pm

YOLO. I pulled the trigger. Just seen the prices the things are selling for as well.

To note these came out, well the earlier 54600’s did, when I was at university so I’ve got a soft spot for them. I’d actually get to the labs early so I could use one instead of the shitty 20mhz cack boxes they used.

... and effin fleabay thinks this:
2.4" DIY Measuring Instruments Oscilloscope TFT LCD Digital DSO138 SMD Set
is similar!

When will fleabay stop "rewriting" URLs?

bd139 · « **Reply #13459 on:** July 20, 2018, 04:08:47 pm »

Some of those are comedic. I missed a box of PVC insulated hook up wire and it gave me gimp masks as an alternative

med6753 · « **Reply #13460 on:** July 20, 2018, 04:09:08 pm »

I accept full blame and responsibility.

Specmaster · « **Reply #13461 on:** July 20, 2018, 04:12:40 pm »

Quote from: bd139 on July 20, 2018, 03:09:52 pm

This is a nice item for a nice price: https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F192603919864

MegaZoom, 100mhz and 16 bit analyser and rs232 pod for £120. Tempted but I really don’t need it.

Did you get it in the end? Its gone now, have you seen what Ebay reckons is similar to it?

bd139 · « **Reply #13462 on:** July 20, 2018, 04:14:49 pm »

Yep it’s mine. Seller has dispatched and given me a UPS tracking ID already

Now to find some pods and probes!

bd139 · « **Reply #13463 on:** July 20, 2018, 04:16:11 pm »

anyone near Southampton?

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F302812203905

Specmaster · « **Reply #13464 on:** July 20, 2018, 04:16:48 pm »

You was lucky that I went out today, if I'd seen it I'd be in for it as well. Good steal that. So as it stands its a 2 channel only but with a pod you can get upto 16, is that right?

bd139 · « **Reply #13465 on:** July 20, 2018, 04:18:28 pm »

2 analogue channels. 16 digital. Basically it’s a logic analyser as well. Great for mixed mode designs.

Specmaster · « **Reply #13466 on:** July 20, 2018, 04:19:28 pm »

Quote from: bd139 on July 20, 2018, 04:16:11 pm

anyone near Southampton?

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F302812203905

And it's almost got 4 feet.

bd139 · « **Reply #13467 on:** July 20, 2018, 04:22:05 pm »

Haha true. Could shift that for £105 more than you pay for it easy. I’d go for it but I’m not risking long journey in the car as the clutch is about to snuff it.

Specmaster · « **Reply #13468 on:** July 20, 2018, 04:23:45 pm »

Quote from: bd139 on July 20, 2018, 04:18:28 pm

2 analogue channels. 16 digital. Basically it’s a logic analyser as well. Great for mixed mode designs.

I have been all over Essex today with my sons looking for Star Wars figures in Home Bargains or I might have pulled the trigger on it myself, very tempting but I think you have more use for a SA then I do and I already have that Hitachi with megazoom.

Specmaster · « **Reply #13469 on:** July 20, 2018, 04:28:55 pm »

Quote from: bd139 on July 20, 2018, 04:22:05 pm

Haha true. Could shift that for £105 more than you pay for it easy. I’d go for it but I’m not risking long journey in the car as the clutch is about to snuff it.

Your poor old long suffering Fiat, about time you got a new one, how many miles has it done now?

If anyone is looking at the 465 in Southampton, don't worry I'm not after it, to far away for me to go anyway, my right knee started to ache today just driving round Essx without going all the way for a scope. I'm falling apart.

bd139 · « **Reply #13470 on:** July 20, 2018, 04:32:31 pm »

Only 85k miles. It’s just I drive it like a Land Rover. Still on first clutch so not too bad. Going to grab a new car next year. One that I can actually drive inside London SLEZ in 2020... longer you put this change off the cheaper it gets

I can’t stand Home Bargains. If I was going to go on a shooting rampage it’d be in there

Specmaster · « **Reply #13471 on:** July 20, 2018, 04:44:11 pm »

Whats SLEZ? low emission zone?, does mean you're going for an electric car then?

bd139 · « **Reply #13472 on:** July 20, 2018, 04:47:50 pm »

Super Low Emission Zone. Anything inside the north circular basically. Rather close to that and go in and out of the city a lot so will get expensive. Anything made after 2015ish that isn’t too hungry and isn’t diese is fine. Not electric yet.

tggzzz · « **Reply #13473 on:** July 20, 2018, 05:06:11 pm »

Quote from: Specmaster on July 20, 2018, 04:28:55 pm

If anyone is looking at the 465 in Southampton, don't worry I'm not after it, to far away for me to go anyway, my right knee started to ache today just driving round Essx without going all the way for a scope. I'm falling apart.

Getting old is not for the squeamish.

I considered that 465B, but I've got to pick up my newly-acquired Tek a6902a isolator.
And assemble many of my other acquisitions.
And work out why sending something via company X is so much more expensive that Parcel2Go quotes.
And clear out some other scopes before the floor collapses.
My house is full - doubly so since spoglet+mutt is also here

med6753 · « **Reply #13474 on:** July 20, 2018, 05:06:43 pm »

Quote from: bd139 on July 20, 2018, 04:32:31 pm

Only 85k miles. It’s just I drive it like a Land Rover. Still on first clutch so not too bad. Going to grab a new car next year. One that I can actually drive inside London SLEZ in 2020... longer you put this change off the cheaper it gets

I can’t stand Home Bargains. If I was going to go on a shooting rampage it’d be in there

Only 85K miles and the clutch is about ready to take a dirt nap? Must be a lot of stop and go driving or you ride that sucker.

I have nearly 190K miles on my 2004 Honda Civic and it has the original factory clutch. But no city driving.


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