List your test equipment "scores" here!

[Miti]

It is all very obscure and cryptic , NI USB, 4 wire SENSE, 6 1/2 digit DMM, Input....

... no display. Can’t be anything good.

[wkb]

NI? The H got loose, must be NIH..

[Miti]

In all fairness, even if heartbreaking (for some of us), in an ISO production environment, such action may be justified. You can't keep uncalibrated equipment on the production floor and you don't calibrate it if it is not needed. So where do you keep it? Real estate is expensive. And if a test operator with "initiative" gets to it and thinks it is better than a (calibrated) Fluke177 to adjust a voltage reference on a production board, then is discovered that the instrument wasn't calibrated or worse, is defective... A quality engineer with bulgy eyes shouting "you should have thrown that POS" is not a pretty picture. Then the recall process of thousand boards is waaaay more expensive than that, otherwise expensive, instrument. It's all about the bottom line...

[wkb]

True. Still, the planet does not get into a better shape by throwing things in landfills like that 

[tchiwam]

Keithley 2002 with 128k ram
8665B 004 and 8665A 001 004 008 010 will try to merge them and get the +0 self test result
8563EC 001 005 006 007 008...

[tchiwam]

Find the mistake ... aka my scores

[wolfy007]

I am hoping this will 'eventually' be a score. $2k AUD for a 3458A with 'issues' from the other side of the country Has the fairly typical ACal error and has been out of use for 8-10 years so a trip to Keysight will be in it's future. Also has an Error 202 to sort out. ETA late next week.....

From eBay, Perth?

[beanflying]

I am hoping this will 'eventually' be a score. $2k AUD for a 3458A with 'issues' from the other side of the country Has the fairly typical ACal error and has been out of use for 8-10 years so a trip to Keysight will be in it's future. Also has an Error 202 to sort out. ETA late next week.....

From eBay, Perth?

Yep. Overall very tidy for its age. Hoping to get it on the bench in the next few weeks now my world has settled down a bit. 

[wolfy007]

I am hoping this will 'eventually' be a score. $2k AUD for a 3458A with 'issues' from the other side of the country Has the fairly typical ACal error and has been out of use for 8-10 years so a trip to Keysight will be in it's future. Also has an Error 202 to sort out. ETA late next week.....

From eBay, Perth?

Yep. Overall very tidy for its age. Hoping to get it on the bench in the next few weeks now my world has settled down a bit. 

Very nice, and now you have one, good purchase. Saw that one and did my best to ignore it, hoping someone else would buy it....   

[TAMHAN]

Two things:
a) the Danaher AWG2021 is a BW unit. How did you get the little effer to output color?
b) you are connected to the marker output rather than ch2

[tchiwam]

a) Was the main point, Just got lucky, I'll let the guy who did the magic come forward if he wants.

This may be the only unit with that screen, has the option 02 09 too...

b) I use the marker for my trigger, the goal is to phase code my 8665B with the AWG2021, but the BW of the phase input on the 8665B  is not as great as I though it would be. I was hoping for 1MHz, would be happy with 500kHz but it's not even there yet...

[TAMHAN]

a) Was the main point, Just got lucky, I'll let the guy who did the magic come forward if he wants.

This may be the only unit with that screen, has the option 02 09 too...

b) I use the marker for my trigger, the goal is to phase code my 8665B with the AWG2021, but the BW of the phase input on the 8665B  is not as great as I though it would be. I was hoping for 1MHz, would be happy with 500kHz but it's not even there yet...

Give me the contact details of the man. We have such an unit, too...

[TERRA Operative]

Well, $50 or so invested in total ain't bad I guess. Works quite well after a few carbon comp resistors and Rifa caps were replaced in the PSU, the intensity pot was glued back together (Smashed after apparently being hit somehow), the rear feet were replaced and I gave it a good spit polish.

Now to figure out what to do with it, I won't need it once I get the 2467 working, and I won't need that once the 2467B is finished either.

[wkb]

We call that a luxury problem here in the Netherlands 

Wilko

[beanflying]

1, 10 & 100  Leeds and Northrop Resistors for the collection. About $50 USD each landed in Oz. Now to find a 1k, 10, and ...... 

Quick 2W test shows them off to a good start. Cleaning and a more careful testing sometime later. 

[cdev]

It is all very obscure and cryptic , NI USB, 4 wire SENSE, 6 1/2 digit DMM, Input....

The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_Who_Say_%22Ni!%22 demand a sacrifice.

[nctnico]

Today I received a new addition for my lab: a Tektronix FCA3100 frequency / timer / counter /analyser as a replacement for my old HP 5334A. I wanted more resolution and better single shot time interval accuracy. I looked at a whole bunch of frequency counters both old (like the Stanford research SR602 and several Philips/Fluke units) and new. In the end I came across a good deal for the FCA3100 at Instrumex (located in Germany): 1650 euro ex. VAT. Given the high asking prices on Ebay for older gear in decent shape I decided to buy the FCA3100.

The FCA3100 is an older design which has been sold as Fluke rebrands and seems to originate from Pendulum which sells the same model as the CNT-91 . Older model means no ethernet and no storage to USB. Only a (proprietary) USB interface (USBTMC) and GPIB. OTOH a Keysight counter like the 53230A which has all the modern I/O goodies is way more expensive and has the downside that it has limited ability to count 'negative' time intervals which is something that I have to deal with every now and then.

The unit I received came with the original packaging, calibration certificate, 2 years left on the factory warranty and still had the screen protector attached:


A quick check shows that it works:


I'm not sure the unit I got has ever been used. Why would the screen protector still be on if someone used it? Unfortunately I can't find a power-up or runtime counter. I had no problem registering the unit on Tektronix' website though. It also seems Instrumex has more of them because they didn't take the listing from their website.

Nice to see some more Tektronix gear getting into my lab!

edit: turns out the USB port is a USBTMC interface which accepts GPIB commands. This wasn't 100% clear from the documentation.

[rsjsouza]

Beautiful unit, nctnico!

[2N3055]

That was nice deal, congrats!

[eugenenine]

Probably not as fancy as a lot

[2N3055]

Probably not as fancy as a lot

Looks clean and if it serves you well, it's a beauty....

[wkb]

Probably not as fancy as a lot

From the picture it sure looks nice 

[rsjsouza]

Probably not as fancy as a lot

Congratulations! The interface of these HP digital oscilloscopes is sooooo smooth. I love them.

[450bush]

Hi Everyone...

Scored a few oscilloscopes a couple of months ago in an factory closing auction

Tek TDS3052 with the TDS3FFT module and Tek 500MHz probes
2x Tek TDS2012
Rigol MSO1074z with 4 Rigol probes
50 Tektronix 100MHz and 200Mhz probes

All the scopes are working as intended! No issues with them.. and all the probes are fine too.. only several of them missing the probe caps (already ordered replacements!)

All that was $1000.00

[TheSteve]

Finally got a deal on something I've been wanting for several years - a Keysight 1147B 50 MHz 15 amp current probe. As is very common with these the original case was not included, so I treated it to a Pelican 1170.

Was having some fun probing current through a resistor using my B2901A SMU as a source.