Channel 1 Beam with the Beam Finder cannot regulated down over the whole screen with the position knob - it is only on the upper side of the screen. Only a little - two or three scales. Result: no

Inspectors have a tendency to come out of the woodwork when the insurance value equals several months or more of a mid-level managers income. Greg

Greg, I'm surprised to hear you say that UPS even sent an inspector out to look at the item. I've never even heard of a UPS inspector and UPS has never sent anyone to look at any of my damaged

Back in the late 90’s I had a small piece of equipment that was captured in a military shipping container consisting of 2” closed cell stiff foam shock absorbers around each corner of the unit

Thanks Albert and Michael for the information. Looks like T130 in my PG506 is a bit warmer then yours Albert, so maybe something is consuming extra current somewhere... And next days I investigate the

Hi all, I am determined to repair this PS, so I removed all broken, damaged or suspicious parts and ordered new ones. For the time being, I removed all the burned fiberglas parts of the PCB, leaving

Hi, First of all, get the service manual and do the performance validation checks and if necessary do the adjustment (calibration) for the 2430A calibration is fairly simple, you don't really need

It is sitting in my garage right now, awaiting space in the lab for a full intake inspection. It's a damn nice looking scope, and should be days of fun fixing up. -- Jeff Dutky

This is good news!

Rene, I will take another look at mine tomorrow. I will give you as much as I can as far has how mine acts. I will pay special attention to T130, including some temperature measurements. Your U400

Exactly . . . wrote:

These days it really doesn't matter who you ship through- they're all the same.  Everyone uses robots/conveyors for sorting, and UPS/USPS share some facilities.  A few months ago I shipped a (well

Hi again, I checked the CD I have at work, its the same Version (2.5.4) as the download on the Tek

Jeff Most of the scopes I've picked up have been in storage for many years and lots of dust. I usually just do cleaning with a compressor for dust and loose dirt and lots of elbow grease for stubborn

Chuck, I was picking up a 533A, and moving it about 15-20 miles, about half of that "highway" travel (this being the DC area, the highway travel averaged less they 40 mph). I got the scope home

Hi: I saw the post on the 2430A was as a chat? Do we do that on TekScopes? And why would someone want to? ... What's the advantage of that over starting/participating in a thread? It appears that

A technician at Lockheed back in 1993-1995 when I worked there told me that he'd seen lots of HP and other power supplies go out for repair but never in 30 years had he seen a Trygon need repair. I

Thanks Mark - As a part of my initial trouble-shooting I did change out C811 with a polyester film cap of the same value and saw no change, but I'll try increasing it's value. I'm generally stocking

Paul, Replace the red caps with Sprague Orange Drops, good Panasonic, etc. rated at 600 or 630V. If they are in the main power supply, replace them also. You can increase C811 to a ,1mfd since that

Just curious I measured in my PG506, B03xxxx. +5V1 was 4.75 V, for convenience measured between pins 16 and 8 of U673. +5V was 5.05 V, measured between pins 10 and 5 of U668. About 0.3 V saturation