This morning I mailed 76 of Peter Keller's books. These went to 72 people in the USA who ordered Peter's book. At the request of our currently shorthanded post office staff I have been asked to wait u

Hi, I have two 475 scopes. One is almost working as of a few years ago, but the trace brightness knob broke off some years ago. I haven't been using it. A friend of mine bought a 475 for parts, its a

TM500 - Ok, it fits a very large set of modules. Why? Are there modules that do things that can only be done using a particular module? Yes, I could read the specs for dozens and dozens of the modules

Hi everyone, After a long time on the bench, finally my 2712 is alive and work 100%. Using the suggestions that I received here, I start the service. First I have made a visual inspection and look for

Hello Many moons ago I saw a topic on here regarding the 2230 and a storage display problem and as far as I could tell it never reached a conclusion. Unfortunately it is the problem I have now...or ve

I have a battery BMS that I am reverse engineering. I have a resistor with a code that I have never seen and cannot find any information on. The resistor is a SMT device marked 4L0. The L appears to b

Hello, these people might be useful: www.krystaly.cz/en/Products/Crystals No affilation. But I speak a few words of Slovak and are in the region...so if I can help, I will in the frame of my possibili

Newbie here with a Tek2465b and multiple 10:1 probes, none the same. (but they have been "compensated using the builtin calibrator of the 2465b). I a am feeding two channels simultaneously from the sa

Does anyone know of a source for the cable-end receptacle that mates with the plug shown in this photo https://w140.com/tekwiki/wiki/514#/media/File:Tek514-lineSocket.jpg The inside is metal, and I wo

Hi Everybody, Inspired by recent talk of the admirable 500 series, I'd like to share my story and some questions that keep bugging me. I'm in Eastern Europe. A month ago a local trader in scavenged EE

One of the handle hubs is broken in my TDS3014B (up-hacked of course) and it just doesn't glue happily. Does anyone have a spare? This is item 6 in the explosion drawing on page 10-13 of the TDS3000B

Greetings, Allow me to seek some owner/user comments as well as alternate suggestions. I am considering acquiring an IC tester/identifier instrument. Currently, on-line I have found a very limited sel

Hi everyone, About 20 years ago I needed to replace a step recovery diode in a piece of (non Tek) equipment. I had to test an assortment of diodes for this function and managed to achieve it with a pu

good morning to the whole group I ask for help because I'm not understanding anything anymore .... I have a pg506a that makes a strange defect I turn on the pg506a and connect an oscilloscope (I have

Hi, Need to give my 7003 and some plug ins a good going over. Is there anyone in the Cotswolds area (U.K.) who has an extender that I could borrow for a couple of days ? TIA Robin Birch

Just got a nice looking 7904A. Plugged it in with sufficient fear and trembling, exc. for noisy controls, seemed to work OK. Got trace and sweep and expanded sweep. Didnt put any signals into it. I di

Very silly question but can anyone tell me which way the impeller type fan in a 2465 is mean to rotate; I have rewound mine and realise I don't know this vital piece of information for phasing the coi

my Tektronix 496 Spectrumanalyzer suddenly doesn't make any digitally work, some key-LED's light and a very slow analog sweep can be seen on the screen. According to the servicmanual i first tested th

I hope this is the right forum for this message. If not, I apologize and please point me in the right direction. I have been acquiring tek equipment for some years but it's time for me to pass these a

I can obtain a Tek 453A locally, but it doesn't show a trace, so I have no idea yet what is broken. What would be a good offer for it, and is it usually repairable? - Maurice