Tek 7904 scope

[Tom Peters]

I think I may know why it was so cheap. The power supply died right after 
dinner today. Powering it up results only in "tick tick tick tick..."

At 07:48 PM 2/26/2007 -0600, you wrote:
>At 12:31 PM 2/18/2007 -0500, you wrote:
>>On Feb 17, 2007, at 5:08 PM, Tom Peters wrote:
>>>>hey, since the listing should be over by now (since you said you won
>>>>it)...perhaps you wouldn't mind sending us a link to the listing
>>>>so we can
>>>>all drool over exactly what you got? :P :D :)
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>>>Sure, absolutely. The item number originally posted for $299 has
>>>been lost. The relist at my price is below. Try not to drool on the
>>>knobs- they get slippery and hard to adjust ~(:-)      that's me
>>>with a feather in my cap.
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>>>Item number: 330089349032
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>>>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=014&sspagename=STRK 
>>>%3AMEWN%3AIT&viewitem=&item=330089349032&rd=1&rd=1
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>>   A truly tasty device!  That's an excellent score.  A great scope
>>in a great configuration, at an excellent price.
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>Well, I have said device in my hands now and have been playing with it, 
>trying to see if all the bits work. I haven't played with the curve tracer 
>yet, but I have the manuals for all the plug-ins downloaded, also three or 
>four slightly different manuals for the scope itself. I'm having a lot of 
>fun working with it.
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>It plays pretty nice. I've been running through the checkout process in 
>the manual are so far there's only two concerns:
>1. The display swims, more like twitches, from left to right, rapidly and 
>constantly, somewhat less than one minor division, meaning about half a 
>millimeter at a rough guess. It does it on any/all channels on both the 
>7A26 vertical amp and the 7A18 amp.
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>I don't have another timebase to check out, but when I switch to the curve 
>tracer instead of my 7B53A,  the twitch in the on-screen readouts for 
>controls settings stops. Of course, with the curve tracer, you can't sync 
>up, but the readouts clue you that it is/is not dancing around.
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>I tried swapping the timebase into the A slot, instead of the B slot (the 
>7CT1N wants to be in an inside slot) but the twitch is still there.
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>2. The Ch1 input on my second vertical amp seems to attenuate the signal 
>by a tenth. The 4v calibrator at 1khz or DC reads 0.4v, set at 1v/div. The 
>other input on the same plug-in reads 4v. Set to 0.5 v/div, the bad input 
>reads about 1.2v. Switching the calibrator to 0.4v and the bad input to 
>.2v/div gives similar results.
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>I'm working my way through the manuals, learning as I go.
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WAN/LAN/Telcom Analyst, Tech Writer, MCP, CCNA, Registered Linux User 385531