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THDplusN_bad:
Good Day to the group,

I have been "passive" in this forum for quite a while, but decided to get out of the rut now.

Background: I was looking for another logic analyzer for some time, after I have sold a HP 1662A "boat anchor" about 2 years ago. The 1662A was fine for most jobs, but it was large, its memory was limited to 4k and its X-Windows GUI was simply out-of-date. I am using an inexpensive "USB-box" Logic Analyzer manufactured by IKALOGIC for I2C/SPI debugging. It does its job, but it lacks of features such as conditional triggering or the like---

I wanted to share my enthusiasm with you T&M equipment addicts here.: I am currently waiting for my TLA715 to be shipped over to my home here in Germany; scored that from eBay. I have followed several auctions and my eBay watch list was full of alternative items - as I have absolutely wanted some probes to be included... So, I was glad to find a reasonably priced TLA715 after some time. 

But, of course, a few days after the above auction, a nice TEKTRONIX TLA5201 in apparently good condition showed up on epay. Including some probes. That would have been an alternative unit for me. See 262883634309 (no affiliation).

So, I just wanted to thank users David Spicer, nctnico, TerraHertz for their hints, and most of all TiN for his superb work and lots of very useful information such as https://xdevs.com/fix/tla714/
Good karma on you, chaps.

I plan to check the hardware for usual failures (replace capacitors, if necessary; replace the PC motherboard's CMOS-battery etc.).
Then I will clean the unit and upgrade to a solid-state disk, install MS Win XP OS and the TLA application SW release version 5.1.
I intend to control the TLA715 remotely from a standard laptop PC via LAN.

I will provide some irregular updates here, so please have some patience.

Cheers,

THD+N_bad

TerraHertz:

--- Quote from: THDplusN_bad on October 03, 2017, 09:02:57 pm ---So, I just wanted to thank users David Spicer, nctnico, TerraHertz for their hints, and most of all TiN for his superb work and lots of very useful information such as https://xdevs.com/fix/tla714/
Good karma on you, chaps.

--- End quote ---

Best of luck with the shipping!

I also want to mention that David Spicer, an old friend of mine, passed away on 14th August 2017.
There will be an obituary on my site, but it's proving difficult to write.

Ice-Tea:
What modules are installed? As an FYI, I have some available ;)

THDplusN_bad:

--- Quote ---TerraHertz [..] I also want to mention that David Spicer, an old friend of mine, passed away on 14th August 2017.
--- End quote ---

Good Day,

@TerraHertz: I am very sorry to hear about your loss - may your friend rest in peace.

Yes, I am still pending delivery. More than a week's time was spent for ground transportation and prep. work for customs and export duties.  ::)
Well, finally, it is in transit to Europe at this point. Shipment costs were reasonable. I will share a few details later - and I am keeping my fingers crossed that the unit will arrive in good shape.

@ Ice-Tea: Thanks for the offer, but the included TLA7N4 plug-in module shall be more than enough for me...

In the mean time, I have not been lazy, but finished the following in preparation:


* Purchased a standard mSata to 44-pin IDE adapter & a mSATA 128 GByte SSD
* I have used an external USB-to-IDE adapter and formatted and partitioned the SSD. Two partitions at 60GByte each shall be plenty... 
* As I am not sure if the TLA715's mother board & BIOS supports booting from an external USB memory: Prepared a Windows 98 start-up floppy disk. I did not expect to ever deal with 3.5" floppy disks again. But I still have some here; bought 3 years back.
* I will re-cap the PC motherboard and probably the TLA7N4 plug-in. I have ordered Ta-capacitors to match - all sourced from a reliable local eBay seller. High-reliable cap types where possible, manufactured by AVX and other brands. Gosh, our dear catalogue dealers such as Conrad, Reichelt and RS Components are selling these for high prices these days. 50€ cents for a 100µF/16V cap? :wtf:
* I have turned an old PACE Tweezer soldering iron into one which I can use for the re-capping job. I will provide a brief write-up of this next week (in the Other equipment section)
Stay tuned...

Thanks,

THD+N_bad

nctnico:
Why would you want to replace the capacitors? I'd leave it as is because it is easy to do more damage than good. If it ain't broken don't ruin it!

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