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TLA7AA4 P6860 Probe Artwork
bench_knob:
Last week I purchased one P6860 from AAAPortal. It is a sacreficial cable, in that I planned to open the probe-heads to gander at what is inside them. As Sailor stated, his probes were of so-so quality. The photo that AAAPortal posted in his adv (the only thing we as buyers can see about the product) does not match what I received.
One of the probe-heads was missing the elastomer-strip, while the other was present. In opening the probe-heads, there is a distinctive line of 'grunge' which one can see in the high-frequency hybrid board photo, just below the input resistor dividers. I found the 'grunge' difficult to remove. At first I tried using denatured alcohol + scrubbing, and then switched to acetone using a short stiff bristle PCB brush and after serious scrubbing, a bit of it was removed.
Ok, well...the reason I bought the cable (I now own five P6860s & 1x TLA7AA4 module)...determine if there is a way to hack together a simple mechanical interface for low-speed, flying lead operation, at least until I have fabricated a PCB to flying-lead or Mictor board PCB adapters using my P6860 Eagle PCB 'component' for the other four P6860 probes I bought from a different vendor.
In the opening process, I took a few photos and a couple of rough measurements, and also I created a mechanical drawing, for folks persual.
bench_knob
bench_knob:
Fellow TLA scopesters, freinds,
FYI....
Four used compression probes for TLA7AAx (P6860), with all the accessories (grey & black elastomer holders) & nut-bars for $130 (+13 shpg), the four probes are each shipped in very nice metal zippered charcol anti-static bags. I bought a set of these, they were quality undamaged cables. I am very happy with the cables I received. They are again available.
eBay: 131212953795
bench knob
edt: fix fu's
martinr33:
Did you ever complete the Mictor 38 connector layout?
I'm setting up to do one, so any head start would be great.
Mechatrommer:
hi i know i'm a bit late, but just want to add value to the thread rather than making another spanking new but valueless one. currently trying to make breakout/adapter pad for the P6860.. just to let anyone know who will come in the future that from http://w140.com/tek_p6800-series_manual.pdf page 2-28 (page 72 in my pdf reader) the dimensions provided are closely matched what TiN provided in reply #1 except most of the dimensions are given as absolute position from origin (the big lock hole on the right) so it can be used as reference as well (attached), fwiw...
velik_kazakov:
Hi,
want to ask if someone try to solder wires direct to the probe head. I have one probe with elastomer holder and one w/o (both are P6860). Think to disassembly one w/o elastomer holder and to solder some pcb with flying leads on it.
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