By the way, many of the cylindrical silver caps are not electrolytic but tantalum, expensive little devices. I picked up a couple of thousand of various values from a guy who repaired Tek and HP scopes. Let me know if you need any by PM.
Jerry
I just remember them being polarized capacitors. While i was in there i randomly measured a few in circuit and they seamed fine. Some have said they are unreliable and start to fail horribly with age. But there are so many of them in there that i don't really want to recap the whole thing unless they do start to go bad.
Do you need to replace these with genuine parts? Wouldn't a modern electrolytic do just fine?
I don't think that the colported problems apply to the hermetic ones. If the lead goes though a little glass bead, the should be ok if they measure ok.
today I make my best deal till now. On the city bazaar I grab a NI GPIB-USB-HS+ for under 3USD (5 BGN)
. Now I test it with one of my DMMS. All work for now w/o any problems. It write date from 3+ hours.
In the future I will be at the bazzar every Saturday morning
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today I make my best deal till now. On the city bazaar I grab a NI GPIB-USB-HS+ for under 3USD (5 BGN) . Now I test it with one of my DMMS. All work for now w/o any problems. It write date from 3+ hours.
In the future I will be at the bazzar every Saturday morning .
Ok, that is crazy good. Should we all visit Bulgaria?
Maybe velik will buy them all and resell in the Buy/Sell/Wanted forum.
today I make my best deal till now. On the city bazaar I grab a NI GPIB-USB-HS+ for under 3USD (5 BGN) . Now I test it with one of my DMMS. All work for now w/o any problems. It write date from 3+ hours.
In the future I will be at the bazzar every Saturday morning .
What’s the name of your city?
There have only one pcs in a big lot of gsm/computer/playstation cables. I look to find something other (think will have some gpib cables) but no other interesting items in the lot.
I am in Stara Zagora, but the adapter come from Germany. There have a label on German and have some numbers on the NI logo.
I use one PCI to GPIB, but this adapter is very easy for use compared to my old one.
I have posted it to the TEA thread but I will share here. I scored a 2nd HP 3478A multimeter. It has a Keysight calibration sticker until April and seller states it passes self test. $70 USD and $28 for shipping.
I will be peeking under the skirt to see if I can determine age of the battery. I will also be looking at the RIFA caps as I had to replace all 4 in my first meter.
I have posted it to the TEA thread but I will share here. I scored a 2nd HP 3478A multimeter. It has a Keysight calibration sticker until April and seller states it passes self test. $70 USD and $28 for shipping. I will be peeking under the skirt to see if I can determine age of the battery. I will also be looking at the RIFA caps as I had to replace all 4 in my first meter.
That is a meter that's perfectly possible to self calibrate, good score, I've got one and also a 3468A, the portable version
There have only one pcs in a big lot of gsm/computer/playstation cables. I look to find something other (think will have some gpib cables) but no other interesting items in the lot.
I am in Stara Zagora, but the adapter come from Germany. There have a label on German and have some numbers on the NI logo.
I use one PCI to GPIB, but this adapter is very easy for use compared to my old one.
It occured to me right after my last post that it might not be a good idea to buy back those things that were 'lost' here, so not to encourage it.
Wall'O'Wavepro and other assorted LeCroys
HP4192A LF impedance analyzer
Too bad somebody removed some stickers on the frontplate with a chissel or something and the trigger buttons on the bottom left got knackered but otherwise in pretty good knick. Too bad I have no time for functional testing, this thing seems like a damn nice piece of kit...
@Ice-Tea, I was looking at my work room last night thinking that perhaps I had become a gear addict, clearly Im just a hypochondriac...
Heh, well, these are all to be sold. I think. Well, maybe not all...
Heh, well, these are all to be sold. I think. Well, maybe not all...
Can only see the HP Infinium's on our local evilbay. Missing the Spec Analyzers and the Lecroys if you want to consider tweaking your adds?
Trying to be restrained is sometimes very hard when bling is on show
Hi,
my best score so far was a Tek576 curve tracer for free ... my former boss even picked it up for me
It´s almost in mint condition, with manuals, test sockets, camera light shield and even a automatic test fixture included.
Still though not sure if I will keep or sell it, as it is quite a big and heavy thingie
regards
Calvin
Started putting together the bits to make this (or very similar) curve tracer
http://www.paulvdiyblogs.net/2017/12/building-curve-tracer.htmlBrought an old 20Meg Analogue last week and got the power supply sorted time for the real bits now. Don't really 'need' one I just think they are a cool bit of kit and I want one
Odd.. just did a search through the Australian ebay.. seems to work just fine? Only thing is that the postage is not filled in. Difficult to ship heavy stuff to Aus, so I tend to get custom quotes for the shipment first...
https://www.ebay.com.au/usr/m.ice-tea?_trksid=p2047675.l2559
Seems to go kablam when you look at 'items for sale' https://www.ebay.com.au/sch/m.ice-tea/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from= so it is most likely just your freight options. Only shows 14 items BTW not the 36 you have listed.
I will consult my fund (lack of) and see if it might get to 500Meg+ and drop you a line
I don't think I listed all items as 'australia capable'. Mostly because the logistics would make it difficult. There's a tax advantage on the more expensive items that offsets the horrible shipping.
Do the Lecroy oscilloscopes suffer from the CL_measure_gain_and_offset error after a while when they are powered up ?
I have two of them suffering from that and I couldn't fix them until now....
Cheers
Rémi
The LC series you mean? No. One of them just blew up, though..
The LC series you mean? No. One of them just blew up, though..
Yes I have this problem with two LC series oscilloscopes.
The LC series you mean? No. One of them just blew up, though..
Then they are probably not fitted with the manual mains voltage selector. Don't ever power a Lecroy scope like the ones you have before checking whether the auto voltage selector has been removed and a manual mains voltage selector has been installed.