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Products => Test Equipment => Topic started by: ruairi on September 11, 2017, 11:44:43 pm

Title: Tektronix AFG3000 series upgrades to B and C
Post by: ruairi on September 11, 2017, 11:44:43 pm

Hi all,

I've found a Tektronix AFG3102 100MHz Arb Gen locally at a fair price and I'm considering it.  I'm having a hard time locating information on exactly what was upgraded in the B and C revisions of this series.  I found one post from Alan W2AEW where he mentioned a better screen but that's about it.

https://www.tek.com/datasheet/afg3000-series (https://www.tek.com/datasheet/afg3000-series)

Any thoughts?

Looking at the data sheet it's interesting to me how the distortion performance is worse on the higher spec models, not a problem for my application. 

Cheers,
Ruairi

Title: Re: Tektronix AFG3000 series upgrades to B and C
Post by: effectivebits on September 12, 2017, 01:27:50 pm

As far as I know, there was only 1 AFG3000 "B" model, and that was the AFG3021B/AFG3022B.  I think the change was for the maximum voltage output.  All other models went direct from no letter to the C model.  From a user perspective, I think the only change was the brighter screen with better viewing angles.  The non-letter screen was hard to see off-angle.

Depending on the price, it could be an excellent find!

Joel Avrunin