Dear all,
I bought a Tek 2465BCT at Ebay.
The scope was damaged during shipping and two control knobs had their shafts broken.
While opening the unit to replace the pots, I used the opportunity to take a look at the A5 board, and as usual, the SMD electrolytic caps had leaked.
Fortunately the corrosion seemed light no damage to the traces and just one pad lost (see picture)
I unsoldered the components around the DAC and the 74HCxxx IC's washed the board with water let it dry and soldered the components back.
I had to replace some smd caps and resistors, as well as two 74HC IC's.
I checked the traces for continuity and found no open traces so I was very confident the repair attempt would be successful.
I turned the scope on, heard the "clicks" and the leds flickered as usual but to my surprise, there was jus a "square" four div wide (see picture)
The intensity, position and readout controls do not work, but the horizontal seems to work.
So I do not know if there if the problem is on the A5 board or the infamous U800 has also failed.
Would a broken A5 board produce a screen like the one I am seeing?
Thank you for any ideas.
Roger