400H is here. Survived the trip. Well packed. It's dusty, but in very good condition, optically.
Made in Germany, sold by the Swedish -
hp- office. It has their branch plate on the back.
It's got what some people here call a "waffle iron" mains connector; slightly better than the three-prong Belden horror show that was fitted to US instruments of the period. More properly, it's a DIN 49491 connector. And I've got no such plug, yet. They're made new in Germany, for silly money, of course.
And to connect back to the discussion on family groking our little area of interest, mine do. The middle boy has a thing for toggle switches and asked to try it out. The wife said it was impressive, what with it being the "H" model that's got the larger meter. And we're pretty frank here, she'd said nothing if she thought it slightly silly. And I do know I get to hear when I'm more than slightly silly
That is not all!
As I paid work a physical visit today, because I needed to kick some serious time nuttery installation (dual Meinberg modular 3000 series GPS clocks being a PTP factory feeding two new sync generators via Nexus switches) into shape, what did await me on my table, if not an Anritsu MT1000A mainframe, with OTDR and microscope, Ethernet multirate module up to 100Gbit/s, and,
la piece de la Resistance, the high precision timing option module, with
Rb oscillator and GPS discipline receiver. List price for that configuration is 50000 € -- which we did not pay, but it still cost an impressive amount of money. Today, we only got around to verify it as far as optics inspection results and the GPS actually locking and providing a good stable signal. The thresholds it sets for IEC 61300-3-35 are indeed tough. My colleague who's spent time building optical WDM transmission networks and thus has occupational brain damage manifesting as inability to tolerate dirty ferrules was impressed with the results it requires.
This gonna be fun.
As TE goes, today was one of the better days.