HP 8642B is very well boatanchory ...
boatanchory
Oooooh, I like it
Oh, crap. I've got it and I just started 2 months ago. 2 bench DMM's, 2 oscilloscopes, 4 dual PSU, 2 waveform generators. Oh hell, what have I done? I need help.
P.S. And there are many Time-Nuts that are much worse than me! After all, I don't have *any* hydrogen masers!
Now what will I do when Dave's meter is finally ready?
P.S. And there are many Time-Nuts that are much worse than me! After all, I don't have *any* hydrogen masers!
Can you actually call yourself a time nut if you don't at least have ambitions? What would Tom Van Baak say?
I got tired of waiting for Dave's new DMM to be ready and I reallywantedneeded another quality handheld DMM, so I bought one of the $200 eBay new (old stock) Agilent U1252B's.
It has arrived and I love it. It is a thing of beauty. Oh man, my Brymen 257 and Fluke 87V are gonna have to share their bench space now.
Now what will I do when Dave's meter is finally ready?
I haven't been a Time-Nut long enough for the infection to reach that level. I'd also have to move to a bigger place!
I haven't been a Time-Nut long enough for the infection to reach that level. I'd also have to move to a bigger place!
Well guess being a Time nut is not really much cheaper than being a Volt nut after all. But still putting in 10 MHz reference clock distribution in to my rack is not that bad right?
My name is Conrad and I like knobs. And digits. The more knobs and digits in a row, the more I want it.
Forgive me, I have sinned
Don't worry, your in good company. I just bought another DMM myself. Really, I just paid for it. It's an HP 3468B. I'll show you all when it arrives.
Why? Because - I didn't have one.
What made you choose the 3468B vs. 3478A?
What made you choose the 3468B vs. 3478A?
In this case nothing more than a fair price, I'll probably buy the 3478A too later - being a TEA and all.
I received yet another DMM today. Sadly I think I will need to sell one, if I do can I still be part of this group?
I received yet another DMM today. Sadly I think I will need to sell one, if I do can I still be part of this group?
No! Selling stuff will get you ostracized!
-Pat
Quotethere are no nice boatanchor signal generators.HP 8642B is very well boatanchory with 36kg weight. May 3U height not delude you.
My name is Conrad and I like knobs. And digits. The more knobs and digits in a row, the more I want it.
Well, then you need one of these Buchla function generators.
Well, then you need one of these Buchla function generators.Holy hell.
And a Uni degree to know how to operate it.
If we're talking boatanchory but modern signal generators, clearly the 8662A is the one to get. http://www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/pdfs/IssuePDFs/1981-02.pdf
It was some groundbreaking specs for its time, I think you can maybe do better for close in phase noise today, but it will be very expensive.
I just have a modern, Agilent-badged 8644B as my only RF signal generator. Pretty darned good specs and cost me only about the same as my vastly inferior 8648B had (which is sitting around with a broken power supply for which replacements seem to go for $300 used on eBay. I should take a look at it again sometime, but I think I found an open transformer winding, and it was a switching supply made by a third party for which no schematic was available.)