Bean should be pleased........
I had a delivery today - SUNDAY!! - from Australia Post!! This is unheard of. We don't get Sunday deliveries unless they are absolutely overrun - which
might happen around Christmas. I am still bewildered.
However - down to business.
Arriving today was one HP 5328A counter - ex eBay. While I would normally prefer picking such items up, the current Covid restrictions forbid such a trip - so Australia Post it was. I sent the seller a message asking for it to be packed well ... and I must say, it was. There was a piece of foam carved out to cradle the knobs on the front panel - a nice attention to detail. All in all, it survived the journey totally unscathed.
Front panel looks pretty good (and it came with the rack ears) but there's a lot of blank space in the middle that's just begging to be populated. The gauntlet is at your feet, Bean. (This could be a dangerous challenge.)
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SO ... true to the tradition of the EEVblog, I didn't turn it on, I took it apart!
Inside it was quite clean and tidy - with a lot of unpopulated space on the main PCB. You can tell this board was destined for greater things - some under the 5328 badge - and others one might expect from such a layout.
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Now ... where are they ....?
AHA! Very easy to get to - and not as bad as some I've seen, but they will be given a retirement party soon enough.
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Nice oscillator can....
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There are also tell-tale signs there's been solder flung around in the vicinity (outside, thankfully) as I found little flakes of solder caught in a couple of corners. Easily removed with some gentle assistance from a carefully wielded hobby knife.
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I've done a quick reorg of my rack to house this new bit of kit (To be honest, I HAD to get this out of the way very quickly. You should have seen "The Look" I got when I brought the box in.)
Fired it up - along with my 8656B - and had a bit of a play.
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Here, they've warmed up for 20 minutes. I know my 8656B is well outside calibration and there is nothing on the 5328A - but a 6 digit match is not a bad start.