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When to part out perfectly functional boat anchors?
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CJay:

--- Quote from: bd139 on May 08, 2022, 06:01:56 pm ---I reckon if you screwed a light bulb to the top of it and relisted it as upcycled steampunk it'd sell within the week  :-DD

More seriously, it's a fairly nice bit of kit and it has collector value. But you'd have to find the market for it. Worth advertising it on here. It'd be a shame to strip it for parts and I wouldn't do it myself.

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Oh aye, polish up a few copper pipe fittings, find a place to fit a couple of nixies and you're on a winner.
bd139:
That’s reminds me of this gem

https://youtu.be/TFCuE5rHbPA
coppercone2:
I would say the attenuator and less then -60dbm of distortion make it a quality instrument, I don't see anything steam about it.

Plus you set output impedance and have a measurement of output voltage on the front panel. Those are kind of unique capabilities, selectable attenuation AND output impedance is nice. And the ground is selectable. I would say for no nonsense audio (120db thd... do we need it?) its good. Crappy benchtop function generators are generally 30-40 db and don't have a nice attenuator like that, and almost never impedance select. You get a crappy 1 turn potentiometer and a button if you are lucky.
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