It was pretty much exactly the same 2 years ago when I bought my wRigol.
If I'd been able to find one like yours, I might not have gotten the 1054Z; but I'd probably have replaced the EXT-TRIG BNC just to have the matching shiny.
Yes I have to agree. Genuinely I wouldn't have bought the Rigol if I had this on the bench at the time as well. But I needed a digital scope right there right then and only had a Tek 465 available that worked.
Don't mention the trigger BNC. It is already annoying me in its incompleteness. I may just swap it out yet.
To steal tggzzz's signature, I'm having fun doing more with less these days so I wonder if I should lose the Rigol and live with this. It means at least £320 off the credit card after the FT-818 left some burn marks and I've got a genuine pre-Danaher made in America Tektronix digital scope in really good condition. It has that indefinable quality about it. Quality as in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance quality.
I have ordered a couple of Wittig 100MHz probes for it from my usual probe dealer (wild-pc on eBay). These are really nice probes for the money: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/162693385317 ... I'll grab some genuine Tek ones if I see any go past for a reasonable fee. Probes cost more than scopes these days ![Smiley :)](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/xsmiley.gif.pagespeed.ic.R8GFI-pF6f.png)
LOL... I
knew it was niggling at you... just like it did me. While I generally agree with the "First, do no harm" Hippocratic Oath tack towards repair, one thing that I've learned the hard way is that it is very hard to clean a crusty BNC so it doesn't still FEEL crusty & crunchy. If I were in there for any reason, I'd seriously think about doing them all just to get that smooooove on.
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Since you're already replacing the two, I woulda never even thought twice and just done the third along with. I've done the strap-reinforcement trick a few times myself on other gear, though. "Crude, but effective." as Mr Spock would say.
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The Wittig probes are damn good value for the money; reasonably decent quality, cheap enough that you could afford to chuck 'em instead of fix them when you break them, and even the cheap 100MHz W201s will compensate down to match the oddball 13pF/15pF that Tek used on older stuff. A shame they went out of business a few years ago. Does your guy still have any W202s? They've been pretty scarce for a while now.
I know I have said this before but seriously Flukes??, yes I know that they are good meters but you also pay for that and if you look at some of Joe Smiths YT videos on multimeters, some of the Flukes just don't survive the tests that he puts them under but the Brymens do and they are less expensive but have more bells and whistles and are even more robust than the renowned Flukes
I'm beginning to notice that more and more of the YT electronic bloggers are putting Brymens on their benches and using them as their goto meter for most things.
Yes exactly this. I am in the process of shifting my U1241C because I don't use it now other than for a current meter. I am considering filling the gap with an 87V just because I am a member of TEA however ![Cheesy :D](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/xcheesy.gif.pagespeed.ic.KPzuH4J-TG.png)
As I said before, it's as much a matter of filling a Fluke-colored hole as it is needing a meter at this point; also, a need to gripe about it as I experience another bout of "The one that got away" syndrome, seeing several fixer-upper 189s that sold over the last couple months for $60-100.
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In all honesty, what I need more probably is a DE-5000...
I’ll try polishing it first ![Smiley :)](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/xsmiley.gif.pagespeed.ic.R8GFI-pF6f.png)
There are no electrolytics on that board. In fact there’s only about five tants as well. It’s incredibly minimalist. Literally nothing to go wrong.
Yep, polishing it first is the way to go, replacing it for no good reason other than to play with the Metcal is pointless,[emoji41]
Blasphemer.
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You’d be surprised what they can fuck up. Flight cases don’t exist to protect the gear from baggage handlers and loaders ![Smiley :)](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/xsmiley.gif.pagespeed.ic.R8GFI-pF6f.png)
Edit: I had a Korg TR rack in once which someone had jammed pencils in and snapped them off in the 1/4” jack when they were stoned.
Oh, good lord... I used to deal with that several times a week when I worked in the AV lab. Cassete consoles, phonographs, TV carts, everything had effing 1/4" phono jacks on them. We had these distribution blocks in every room; sixteen 1/4" phono jacks in every block. One or two per table. Those had no bottom to the jacks, and I'd find everything you can imagine rattling around in the bottom of them; sometime literally packed full so you couldn't get anything more in them.
Pencils, lollipop sticks, crayons, Pockys, peanuts, cigarette butts, gummies...
mnem
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