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artag:

--- Quote from: Jackster on November 12, 2022, 04:59:57 pm ---Managed to get one of the Farnell H60/25 (0-60v, 0-25A) and a Kepco ATE 55-20M (0-55v, 0-20A) power supplies.
£45 and £50 plus hammer/VAT.

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That sounds pretty good. Kepco are the sort of company we love (assuming they still exist). A few years ago I bought an ancient one from another auction and emailed them asking if I could get a manual. They sent me a printed copy FOC. And this PSU was so old that it used valves for the output devices (Kepco HB525 projector lamp supply). 500V at 500mA.
Jackster:

--- Quote from: artag on November 13, 2022, 07:42:51 pm ---
--- Quote from: Jackster on November 12, 2022, 04:59:57 pm ---Managed to get one of the Farnell H60/25 (0-60v, 0-25A) and a Kepco ATE 55-20M (0-55v, 0-20A) power supplies.
£45 and £50 plus hammer/VAT.

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That sounds pretty good. Kepco are the sort of company we love (assuming they still exist). A few years ago I bought an ancient one from another auction and emailed them asking if I could get a manual. They sent me a printed copy FOC. And this PSU was so old that it used valves for the output devices (Kepco HB525 projector lamp supply). 500V at 500mA.

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Their website is still up and you can buy stuff by the looks of it. https://www.kepcopower.com/index.htm
$100 for a service physical manual. Free downloads https://www.kepcopower.com/support/opmanls.htm

$5300 for a new ATE 55-20M though!

veedub565:
I went to collect the lots I won today. Jeez the conditions the items are stored in is appalling, it's an open fronted barn, basically the stuff is stored outside under cover.

The 8662A Is all corroded on the back panel (not shown in the auction pictures funnily enough). The front panel that goes over the display is peeling off, and wet underneath ! God knows what it's like inside, but to be honest it's probably scrap now, no way worth the £290 I paid for it. Probably not even worth £50 for the parts if the outsides anything to go by.

8131A also corroded, and as expected spares or repair. There's something heaving clunking about inside (havent opened it up yet) and a sticker over the mains connectors saying do not energise. Maybe just a PSU fault. Well, originally anyway, I'm not sure how resistant to corrosion the the sensitive custom components inside it are. It's possibly totally fvked now.

The HP Nixie counter doesn't look too bad. Apart from a small split in the front panel (top left of the display). Looks like something heavy has taken a chunk out of the case which is a shame, and the metalworks a bit scuffed up. It may clean up ok though. ANd hopefully works too.

The HP 8011A also looks ok, the metalwork seems to be suffering from the damp. It's not corroded, but like that whiteworm you get on aluminium. Hopefully also works

The two Leica light sources. One had a dead bulb, the other a broken PSU with wires hanging off. Made one good one out the two dead ones so that's kinda ok. And I had the light tubes already.

And the two attenuators both ok.


The cardboard boxes they put a couple of the smaller items in. The cardboard was all damp, everything wet to touch.  I wouldn't buy from them again, having seen how the stuff is stored. And the fact it isn't much cheaper than ebay anyway. Which as mentioned before has better pictures, descriptions, and comeback.


See pictures here (hopefully the links work)


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veedub565:
Sorry didn't mean to put all the pictures in so large. I don't know how to do it with small thumbnails  :palm:
tggzzz:
A couple of points from all the preceeding posts.

Yes, PPAuction storage is suboptimal. I've seen them drape hessian sacks over the racks to attempt to reduce the condensation on the equipment. I'm slightly surprised it is so bad this time, since it has been a long hot dry autumn. Not so in the spring sales!

A couple of things I had from there I simply junked. There was a Philips counter, and an HP5371 MDA/TIA. The latter lives on in the form of bits of scrap metal and a good 10MHz oscillator.

I picked up a couple of Tek1502 TDRs; the damp shouldn't worry them since they can be used in rain and stored under a foot of water. Or at least they could when new. They won't work due to the "imaginative" PSU based around a PUJT, and requiring a working NiCd battery. Hot tip 1: those fleabay 1502s marked as "used" won't work, unless the pictures show a trace. Hot tip 2: ignore using NiMH or capacitors to fake a NiCd cell; if they work it will be temperamental.

Also got some HP DMM probes sealed in their bag, a Time Interval Analyser (hope it works, so I can compare it with my Agilent MDA), and a scrotty Instek PSU.

As for reserve not met, Hunt4Auctions also does that. Most irritating. Curiously the stuff in the PPAuction located in Bicester will be hunt4auctions stuff that hasn't sold in Bidspotter/i-bidder auctions.

The ingur links don't work - and won't, since I can't be bothered to let 10 sites (expecially farcebook) run their javascript in my browser.
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