Re: Oscope advice

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Original poster: "Jonathan Peakall by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jpeakall-at-madlabs.info>

Peter,

I have a Tex 465M. Great scope, and it has an internal oscillator for
calibration. They are cheap and tough. Someday I will get a better scope,
but it does what I need it to.

Jonathan

www.madlabs.info

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Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 4:29 PM
Subject: Oscope advice


 > Original poster: "Peter Lawrence by way of Terry Fritz
<teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Peter.Lawrence-at-Sun.COM>
 >
 > Terry,
 >        I'm thinking of getting a used Tek 465 scope for tesla coil
 > measurements. Do you have any comments on that model, or any related
 > advice.
 >
 > -Pete Lawrence
 >
 > (ps, feel free to post response to tesla list if you think others will
 > be interested).
 > ================
 > Hi Pete,
 >
 > Tektronix has never made a bad scope ;-))  Avoid those giant ones that are
 > bigger than a cow.  Any of the smaller (12x18x8) style CRT scopes are
 > great.  I have long forgot which is the 465...  I looked on ebay and those
 > are great scopes!  They don't have fancy microprocessors ore anything but
 > they don't let you down.  Try and get the service manual if you can incase
 > you ever have to fiddle with it.  But they made zillions of those things
so
 > everyone knows how to fix them if they ever were to break.
 >
 > Cheers,
 >
 > Terry
 >
 >
 >
 >