At school a few weeks ago, my teacher announced that they had some test gear to get rid of, and we could take anything we wanted for free. I ended up scoring 3 things
1. Hioki 3520 LCR meter
It's 30 years old and only 4 digits, but that's 4 digits more than I had before! (It can test at 40Hz–100KHz, so it's still a serious piece of gear, methinks.)
They also had a couple of giant demonstrator analog VOMs: we're talking movements probably a foot (30cm) wide. I'd have taken them for curiosity's sake, if not for the fact that I am already
cripplingly short on space…
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2. Leader LFG-1310 signal generator
It's a fairly standard purely analog gen (10MHz; sine, triangle, square waves; sweep; modulation). I still plan to get an arb generator at some point, this is still an upgrade from what I had before, which was no signal gen at all!
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One pot needed a clean and lube to get rid of scratchiness, now it's perfect.
3. Hameg 407 oscilloscope (it's a hybrid analog and digital storage scope). Its digital storage side isn't anywhere near as useful as the Rigol DS1054Z I already have, but it's nice to have an analog scope finally!