Author Topic: Teardown & Analysis of an Agilent 86109B Optical/Electrical DCA-X Module  (Read 2539 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline HugoneusTopic starter

  • Frequent Contributor
  • **
  • Posts: 960
  • Country: us
    • The Signal Path Video Blog
You can watch the video here: [30 Minutes]
youtu.be/HemdbqcQAC0

More videos at The Signal Path:
http://www.TheSignalPath.com
 
The following users thanked this post: Wuerstchenhund, apelly, Muxr

Offline Dr. Frank

  • Super Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 2425
  • Country: de
Re: Teardown & Analysis of an Agilent 86109B Optical/Electrical DCA-X Module
« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2016, 10:48:56 am »
Just beautiful video / pictures.
What a magic of Electrodynamics!

Frank
 

Offline Muxr

  • Super Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 1369
  • Country: us
Re: Teardown & Analysis of an Agilent 86109B Optical/Electrical DCA-X Module
« Reply #2 on: September 04, 2016, 01:04:21 pm »
Enjoyed that teardown.. thanks Hugoneus!
 

Offline HugoneusTopic starter

  • Frequent Contributor
  • **
  • Posts: 960
  • Country: us
    • The Signal Path Video Blog
Re: Teardown & Analysis of an Agilent 86109B Optical/Electrical DCA-X Module
« Reply #3 on: September 04, 2016, 10:20:54 pm »
Thanks! :)

Offline TerraHertz

  • Super Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 3958
  • Country: au
  • Why shouldn't we question everything?
    • It's not really a Blog
Re: Teardown & Analysis of an Agilent 86109B Optical/Electrical DCA-X Module
« Reply #4 on: September 04, 2016, 11:24:22 pm »
I love looking at spacejunk like this, for the beauty of the designs.

It's too bad most such 'really dead' bits of high tech gear seem to be dumpstered, rather than put on ebay with low prices.

How did you find that one, if I may ask? Because I have a HP 83480A digital communications Analyzer, with no modules.
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/hp-83480a-digital-communications-analyzer-teardown/
I've been hoping to find dead modules and perhaps component swap to end up with a working one, but didn't see any 'dead, for parts' ones yet.
« Last Edit: September 04, 2016, 11:28:29 pm by TerraHertz »
Collecting old scopes, logic analyzers, and unfinished projects. http://everist.org
 

Offline HugoneusTopic starter

  • Frequent Contributor
  • **
  • Posts: 960
  • Country: us
    • The Signal Path Video Blog
Re: Teardown & Analysis of an Agilent 86109B Optical/Electrical DCA-X Module
« Reply #5 on: September 05, 2016, 07:09:25 pm »
This was a dead module that was given to me by a friend. I'll keep an eye out for the modules you are looking for, I will let you know if I come across any.

Offline Lukas

  • Frequent Contributor
  • **
  • Posts: 412
  • Country: de
    • carrotIndustries.net
Re: Teardown & Analysis of an Agilent 86109B Optical/Electrical DCA-X Module
« Reply #6 on: September 06, 2016, 09:35:41 am »
Relevant HP Journal: http://www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/pdfs/IssuePDFs/1996-12.pdf

There's a nice cross-section view of the O/E converter on page 30.
 


Share me

Digg  Facebook  SlashDot  Delicious  Technorati  Twitter  Google  Yahoo
Smf