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Re: Tektronix 2465B oscilloscope teardown
« Reply #1925 on: January 13, 2025, 07:09:24 pm »
Hi chilternview,

Thus Calibration needed. In case of the Dallas NVRAM, you could fill a new chip with the contents of another 2465B Series NVRAM. Maybe somewhere in this Thread you could find a bin.file of it. Otherwise I will send you such a File. This will "delete" the string of ?'s, but it isn't a real calibration. By the way some Sellers ask serious money for such Preloaded NVRAM's.

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Re: Tektronix 2465B oscilloscope teardown
« Reply #1926 on: January 14, 2025, 08:10:30 am »
Thanks Calibrationfixture, I see in some of the early posts in this thread there are NVRAM binaries. I'll give them a try when the new DS1225AD-150 I ordered arrives. In the meantime I'll desolder the old one and fit a socket.

 

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Re: Tektronix 2465B oscilloscope teardown
« Reply #1927 on: January 14, 2025, 08:45:31 pm »
I desoldered the DS1225 and fitted a machined pin style 28 pin DIL socket. And just for fun took the binary file from post #33 in this thread and programmed the  old DS1225 and tried booting the scope with it... it worked, no error. Of course the cal data is unlikely to be correct but I can live with that until the other problem (triggering not working correctly) is resolved.

The triggering is odd. It works most of the time on slow sweep speeds (> 2mS) but on faster sweeps it seems increasingly either fail to trigger or the triggering drifts. It basically makes the scope unusable. Trying to wade through the service manual to check waveforms and understand whats going on.

Edit: I fixed the triggering issue. My 2465B has Option 05, TV line triggering capability. Something on the 05 option board is bad - unplugging J102 that links it to the main board allows the scope to work normally. TV triggering is not useful these days so not really worth trying to fix the option board.
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Re: Tektronix 2465B oscilloscope teardown
« Reply #1928 on: January 15, 2025, 02:27:19 am »
So I've heard of these scopes, besides their high BW, and of course impressive build quality/etc....what's their place today ? Just checking ebay they aren't as much as I remember, but besides maybe the BW, are they much better at anything, compared to new scopes for the same +$600USD ?

The reasons for an average user, to get an old CRT scope, are running out. I still like mine, but I just never use it anymore.
 

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Re: Tektronix 2465B oscilloscope teardown
« Reply #1929 on: January 15, 2025, 07:05:01 am »
Hi chilternview,

Many years ago I had to fix a 2445B Option 05 for an Audio Repair Firm. It was my first 24XX Series Scope Repair. I was again overwhelmed by Tektronix its engineering and thus I fell in love with these Scopes. It also had Triggering Problems after the fixing of the LVSMPS. In my case I forgot connecting the Option 05 Board Power Connector. That was all. In your case it is the other way. I suggest looking to all Option 05 related ribbon cables (the Header Boxes). Also between both Attenuators, there is a Jumper Connector (J103 on the A1 Main Board) with a Coax connected to it.

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Re: Tektronix 2465B oscilloscope teardown
« Reply #1930 on: January 15, 2025, 08:11:00 am »
Calibrationfixture. you're absolutely spot on. When I came to put the case back on I noticed the wire from the TV board to J305 on the PSU inverter board (the +5V digital supply for the board). It was out of the way when I recapped the PSU and I had not noticed it to reconnect it. Having now done so, and reconnected J102, the scope is working fine. I will probably never need the TV option but its nice to know all is working now. I just tested the scope with a 500MHz sig gen and the trace was bright and clear and triggering rock solid, pretty good for a 30 year old scope.
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Re: Tektronix 2465B oscilloscope teardown
« Reply #1931 on: January 21, 2025, 05:28:23 pm »
Looks like last call
 

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Re: Tektronix 2465B oscilloscope teardown
« Reply #1932 on: January 24, 2025, 08:41:45 am »
Battery 42nd week 88 and still going strong 3.5V 
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56k hours and beam strong
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Re: Tektronix 2465B oscilloscope teardown
« Reply #1933 on: January 24, 2025, 12:37:04 pm »
Battery 42nd week 88 and still going strong 3.5V 

For now, until it isn't :(

I suggest you make a video while you use the test routines to scroll through the calibration values, ready to re-insert them into the replacement RAM
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Re: Tektronix 2465B oscilloscope teardown
« Reply #1934 on: January 24, 2025, 01:11:31 pm »
I have it (video), battery is on delivery. I did backup with 3 2032 cells
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Re: Tektronix 2465B oscilloscope teardown
« Reply #1935 on: Yesterday at 08:26:09 am »
new battery arrived
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