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Re: [TCML] In need of oscilloscope [Denver] rather quickly if possible



That's counter to my personal experience, but I only have a single data point, my Tek 465M. I got it used, and everything works great. I have done many dumb things with it and never hurt it. I have compared it to a very fancy modern scope, and it stands up very well, all the way to the end of it's rating. I love mine.

Jonathan
www.madlabs.info
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Lemieux" <gomezaddams@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 12:13 AM
Subject: Re: [TCML] In need of oscilloscope [Denver] rather quickly if possible


On Jan 17, 2008, at 7:25 AM, Clive Hansen wrote:

Dave,
  If you have a local scrap yard, junk shop, or ham store. They
usually have them for very cheap. If not, check eBay for Tektronix
453s as they are very cheap, durable scopes and are relatively
insensitive to emi.

That's pretty funny. I have never before heard anyone (including Tek
fans, of which I am definitely one) describe any 400 series scope as
"durable".  They are the flakiest, most unreliable products Tek ever
produced.  In fact I don't think I've ever seen one where ALL of the
features worked right, and we had dozens of them down at Martin
Marietta, with a fairly solid PM/cal program (they were a defense
contractor after all).  The guys in the cal lab HATED them.

My personal advice would be to buy a Tek scope, just ANYTHING BUT a
400 series!

Email me your required specs (bandwidth, sweep speed, etc, etc) off-
list, I may know someone with a scope available.



-Clive

Dave Pierson wrote:
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:58:52 EST
Davetracer@xxxxxxx wrote:

I have a real need for an oscilloscope for a time-crunch project
I'm doing  for a client.
The nice scope I had died some time ago and its poor cousin
decided that  now was a good time to die.

  Random Thought:
  There are places that rent test equipment.
  I've never dealt with them, dunno cost or practicalities.

   best
    dwp
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