Hi all:
Just brought home this piece of late 1970's test equipment. Owner was asking $10 for it, along with BNC cables, fancy oscilloscope probes, power cord and user manual. It was last calibrated in 1999, and so far all I have done is to check if the power-indicator LED lit up, which it did.
Now, my question is: Can anybody recommend a simple "go/no-go" test I could do? The manual was written for people who know what they're doing (which I don't), and includes a long list of calibration/test procedures which I don't really understand either....
I do have an oscilloscope, and was tempted to just hook up a BNC cable from one the 801's six different outputs to one of the 'scope's inputs and see if I get a readout. But it occurred to me that I don't really know how to set up my Rigol 1054Z properly for this task, and that bad stuff could happen if I did something stupid. Any ideas?
And also, assuming the thing is kaput, might there be any useful parts inside that would be worth salvaging? The owner ended up not even accepting my ten spondulicks, so it's all upside to me. Thanks for reading.