| Products > Test Equipment |
| TLA7AA4 P6860 Probe Artwork |
| << < (3/5) > >> |
| nctnico:
It seems he has a lot. Already 51 sold and still more to go. Do these comes with the elastomer contacts and holders or is it just the probe as pictured? |
| Sailor:
Out of the 8 'probe ends', two are missing the elastomer holder (i.e. you are looking directly at the gold pads on the edge of the ceramic), and on one of those two the ceramic is cracked (broken off) at one end so that a couple of the contacts are missing. Of the remaining six, two are missing a couple of the elastomer inserts. All up, it's a little disappointing, but that's the risk you run... However, I will only have 68 channels on my 715, and it is supposed to have probes with it, so I'll be ok for the moment. Exactly what I do from here on will depend on Tektronix... $$$ |
| bench_knob:
Quote from: nctnico on Yesterday at 11:39:08 PM>Quote>Quote It seems he has a lot. Already 51 sold and still more to go. Do these comes with the elastomer contacts and holders or is it just the probe as pictured? --- End quote --- NctNico, Sailor, & TiN, Hmmm..I bought my pods from a different eBay vendor. However, I did originally offer AAPortal $25 ea for a pair of his pods to which he counter offered (perhaps he made a mistake?) $36 + 2x shipping?? I wrote him and asked him why he raised his price two bucks, to which I received no answer, and also his eBay advertisement was increased by a few bucks** which I now see has returned back to the original sale price. I'd still give it a shot in any case. I'm thinking I'll buy at least another one. I'd like to hack it open to see what's inside, maybe its a simple matter of cutting off or de-soldering the end-effector, to be able solder the wires onto a perfboard with 2,54mm IDC 2x headers, to fab-up a quick-n-dirty interface, while my PCBs are taking their time journey to fruition... Re; the holders? Only the vendor can answer that definitively, however, in the photo I see on his eBay page, I believe that I can see black elastomer holders in place. If the holder wasn't present, one could only see the ceramic/gold hybrid possibly sans the gold pads, however if one looks closely at photo, one can see two sightly offset parallel white strips (elastomer) with a 'center' perpendicular division on each row. That is consistent with an elastomer-holder holding elastomer strips in place. However the probe-heads are missing their nut-bars. See my attached example close-up photos below. bench_knob **'bucks' - US Small denomination paper money in the mid to late 1800s featured an American Indian characature, while young Indian warriors, (14yro ~ 20s) were known by the American Caucasion populace as being 'bucks'. Over the ensuing generations the phrase has become synonomous with the meaning and value of "Dollars". |
| bench_knob:
Quote from: Sailor on Today at 09:12:33 AM>Quote --- Quote ---Out of the 8 'probe ends', two are missing the elastomer holder (i.e. you are looking directly at the gold pads on the edge of the ceramic), and on one of those two the ceramic is cracked (broken off) at one end so that a couple of the contacts are missing. Of the remaining six, two are missing a couple of the elastomer inserts. All up, it's a little disappointing, but that's the risk you run... However, I will only have 68 channels on my 715, and it is supposed to have probes with it, so I'll be ok for the moment. Exactly what I do from here on will depend on Tektronix... $$$ --- End quote --- --- End quote --- Sailor, You might consider writing the vendor, it is an understood tradition and standard eBay practice, that that which is photographed, seeable in the advertisement photo is what ya get!!! The nut-bars, while its nice to have the vendor include those items, they are not featured in the photo that I saw, however, the probe-heads (or effectors as I name the items) are depicted WITH a black elastomer holder + two elastomer strips. If you didn't receive that, then the vendor is misrepresenting his product in my opinion. A deal is a deal, he needs to honor his deal. Some might say, 'but bench_knob, its such a good deal at $34 ea', yeah its true, but, its not what was offered. In any case, I'd make a comment to that effect in the eBay 'feedback' section. bench_knob |
| bench_knob:
Here is the P6860 probe-head library I made. I've double checked it for accuracy against several different mechanical drawings (one drawing was provided by TiN :)), the lib should be ok. There are basic details included in the part description, however, it is encumbent upon the user of the library to reference and to review the Tektronix P6860 manual for all of the details. But the basic one to remember is that that the pads need be GOLD plated. The library was created in CadSoft's EAGLE version 5.50. It'll likely work with any subsequent version, but has not been tested with any except v5.50. bench_knob |
| Navigation |
| Message Index |
| Next page |
| Previous page |