I recently picked up a bulk lot of "known-bad" Agilent probes simply for some mechanical spare parts should I ever need them, since the price was too good to let slip by.
They arrived today and while testing them out just to be sure, one of the 1158A's actually passes signal and cal's just fine, however I get an odd error "Invalid characters were removed from the string." when I plug either of the two 1158A's into the scope (A fully updated MSOX6004A).
I can't find any reference to this error online, and since I get signal I'm guessing it's cosmetic and safe enough to ignore, but would be nice to know for sure.
While I'm at it, I think I read somewhere about the InfiniMaxx II probes being refused as incompatible is known and expected, not that I have a need for them, anyone know for sure?