Dave,Interesting device. Thanks for sharing it with the group.George

I found a dead transistor in the Z Amp, which prompted me to check all the Z Amp transistors, but the rest are OK. My 453A does this on the fastest sweep setting, but only half a major division, and

Those are Tek-made, hermetically sealed plastic film caps, and should never fail in normal use. Let them be. Ed

That is not an aluminum electrolytic capacitor. That is a very high quality capacitor, leave it alone. Really, if you are replacing parts like that, you are doing your scope great harm. -Chuck

Well that was a giant fail. https://ibb.co/fbgOKG

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The body of any aluminum electrolytic capacitor that I am aware of is made from aluminum. It won't solder without special efforts. Could you be more specific? -Chuck Harris lop pol via Groups.Io

Thank you, Philip, for the memory jog. I've seen that style of tag, many times, but forgot due to years of non-refresh. Dave Wise ________________________________________ Sent: Monday, January 22,

I'll take your word for it until I have time to independently confirm. Sorry to the rest of you for reducing the signal to noise ratio. I was trying to help, but sometimes that goes wrong. Dave

There are several caps on the timing board and on the inverter board that seem to be grounded by soldering to the body of the capacitor. Is this necessary to replicate?

I agree - ceramic caps hardly ever fail, especially in ordinary supply bypassing applications. They can get leaky, though, but that hardly matters for bypassing. I can recall only three ceramic cap

That was a fast reply and I like the answer. Thank you.

No. lop pol via Groups.Io wrote:

I am close to finishing up with a 485 total electrolytic/tant recap. Should I replace the power supply/horizontal amp ceramics?

That is due to the amount of time the z-axis circuitry takes to get the beam lit up and going. There is an adjustment to minimize the effect, but it isn't perfect. -Chuck Harris donald collie

When I look at a 100Mhz signal, instead of starting at the left of the CRT graticule, the trace starts at the 2nd major division - 2 divisions to the right of the Left Hand Side. Is this normal? This

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