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Tektronix TDS320 preventive maintanance
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Tomshep:
Mine is a new acqisition and apart from needing a few goes to start it up it is currently fine. I don't need to hack it and all I really want to do is future proof it for my forseeable future. I understand that there are a couple of electrolytics that shoud be swapped on sight and the startup resistor needs beefing up, fine.
The Dallas chips getting amnesia are the biggest potential difficulty. I would be happy to mill the top off and wire in new batteries in remote holders but before I do that, I need to extract the data from the brute. As far as I can tell, the 310-350 series are sort of orphans and although I have schematics, there isn't much else out there, well, not that I've found yet, anyway.
I don't have a GPIB interface and I don't want to scramble the device whilst desoldering it so has anybody any sensible solutions, please?
I am happy to do a recalibration although I lack the fast pulse generator and I am most afeared of bricking it of course.
My options (I think,) are as follows.
Find a firmware dump from another 320.
Find out if that of another set in the range is compatible. I have seen others are trying to use the 350 data.
I don't know if that requires a hardware mod to 350 spec if that is even possible.
Add an interface to read the memory and rtc before pulling them out.
Or some other plan. Making up boards gets expensive and parts availability is poor outside of the USA so I have discunted that for the time being.
If there is any fellow sufferer out there who can fill some of the holes in my knowledge, I would be very grateful.
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