I received this from Stan's daughters Valarie and Tricia: Dear friends and family, We are deeply grateful to all of you for all your expressions of sympathy, and offers of support since Dad passed at

Hi, There was a change sometime, when Tek changed from external battery to internal, built into the nvram. It is actully quite easy to patch en external battery into it. See my earlier post on this:

Terrific! Now you can Fix mine! lol yahoo.com@groups.io> wrote:

Had a backup 465B taken out of service sitting on my hobbyist repair bench for about a year - long journey (hopefully) ended. Symptom was losing trace after warm up, power supply folded over. The

Hi Tony: I spent the last couple of hours searching through the various Tektronix equipment that we have... I didn't find any Tesla coils. Though a Google search on the exact phrase "Tesla Coil" got

When you get the code 4000 what is passing and what is failing?Below the code it throughs you get a pass and fail on error checks. wrote:

Hi John, I enjoyed reading your post. I share your likeness for your Universal AVOmeter. I constantly use something less sophisticated : an not-too-old Radio Shack multimeter with a mirror backed

The 4430a has a battery in side the dallas  ram chip. If it goes out you loose all the cal info stored there. Then its recal time with a new chip. I made a backup once it was recalibrated and now

Hello Ernesto, Harvey and the Group, my initial interest in this thread is due to having a Tektronix TDS 320 with a dud switchmode style power supply. Tektronix or the power supply maker do not

ALL I know I started this thread...Thanks for the input guys  things must be slow as participation has gone above and beyond... Take the lions share of this over to DIY guys and lets get back to

I have a Tek 2430A oscilloscope. Upon boot-up, it gives me an error code 4000 which is for the Front Panel. It says to check in the Service Manual for the cause, but the Service Manual does not give

Did anyone ever reverse engineer on of these? David

Well said Harvey.

Same here Jim. We tried everything to get that Junk off our Laptops. It was so bad we could not use them. Geek Squad got it all off for us.

Did you read this? Tesla coil | | | | | | | | | | | Tesla coil Tesla used these circuits to conduct innovative experiments in electrical lighting, phosphorescence, X-ray gener... |

I appreciate all the suggestions I have received but this is an indication that the conversation has gone beyond the point where it has any relevance to Tektronix. If you wish to continue your

Thank you very much for a very quick reply! I'm not as smart in these fields as you are, but I love to play with stuff and make some sample "demo units" that would put a "growing seed" in some person

I have to disagree, at least here in the sanctuary state of California, Chuck. My wife just had her computer streamlined within the last week by the Geek Squad, and they had us sign no such waiver.

There's a tradeoff here. When I was (very) much younger, I built things from whatever I could get from old TV sets, a source of which (non functioning) I was lucky enough to find.  I traded off time

Rick, Thanks for asking.  I have reached out to the factory for an update.  They were supposed to ship this week, but I have not received tracking.  The delay was reported to be with the factory