When you have them on all day & don't watch tv they do ;)
NT
When you have them on all day & don't watch tv they do ;)
NT
The frequency dial on my main one is within 2% over the full range on all coils, which is amazing.
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TV displays are soft images of real scenes, nicely distributed and constantly changing. An instrument will display fixed fields, numbers mostly, that don't move around for days or years. Pixels burn selectively.
Same idea. Non-uniform area use.
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What, you do not play Pacman on your scope?
Yea, my LCD monitor has bad burn in, shows program text most of the time, but you do not notice it at all with programming. Maybe it helps that I always use white background black text terminals. But sometimes I watch movies on it and even then it is OK.
I am not sure OLED burn in is worse than these Samsung LCD panels. In fact if I change to a different display mode on these 3 years 24/7 on small OLEDs, I see no effect whatsoever. The black being really black helps.
Maybe ask in an Apple user group about their experiences with the new displays. I did not hear any complaints so far, but was not specifically googling for it.
And then there are people who leave the set on on the test card...
PTS1000 ?
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8640s are dying now because of their gears that are made from Delrin. There is an Italian ham who machines a replacement set from brass.
regards, Gerhard
Programmable test source maybe.
GH
Sorry, what is this meter? A GDO? Can you provide the exact make and model?
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Datron/Wavetek 1281 does have two VFD displays. Beats HP 3458A which, ironically, also has VFD display.
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There's also a gentleman in India doing the same (he had his latest batch up on eBay not long ago - possibly still available). I recently installed a set of his three brass gears in my 8640B opt 323, and also replaced the plastic differential arrangement with some brass and aluminum parts that a friend of mind kindly milled up. Much better now...
It's a Measurements model 59 Grid Dip Meter, made by Measurements, who later became Boonton and then were acquired by HP.
You can find them on eBay. It uses an acorn triode, which you can also still get.
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Phil Hobbs
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A super nice direct synthesizer made by Programmed Test Sources. Their
2001 catalogue is at .Mine is the older model with 10 decade switches to set the frequency. I got it for pretty cheap on eBay, and another one with no front panel to use as a parts mule. It has low spurs and really good phase noise. Mine was $200 plus $85 shipping.
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Phil Hobbs
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I always liked my Simpson 260. I still have it, but don't use it anymore.
Not Nixie, LED 7 seg. 1976 pocket size DMM.
piglet
Nice, sort of the HP-21 of DMMs.
I still have an HP-41CV that I use a few times a week. BITD I did a lot of fairly abstruse calculator programming, including hacking undocumented instructions of the original 41C. I had one of the very first 41Cs in Canada, because my dad knew John Young, HP's chairman at the time. (They were on some board together.) I still had to pay list price, so obviously they weren't super close. ;)
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Phil Hobbs
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My HP35 cost a bit over $400, which was a months salary at the time. I think I still have it.
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My 41C was $700 Canadian in 1979, iirc, which took a big whack out of my summer job savings. (I was in second year at UBC.)
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Phil Hobbs
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Thanks, Phil. I've heard a lot of very good reports about Boonton gear over the years.
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I don't think you can go wrong with Boonton instruments. In addition to the model 59 Grid Dip Meter, I also have a 95A Sensitive DC Meter which goes down to 1uA and 1mV full scale. And I have a 92A-S2 RF Millivolt meter. Neither have been to a cal lab, but I have used other means to give me a very rough sanity check on the accuracy. I cherish these instruments.
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