Hi gang, Sometimes I develop irrational attachment to test equipment. If you had a 100MHz two channel analog storage scope with a dying storage tube and a cheap chinese 100MHz two channel color LCD scope, which would you keep? The CRT scope is a HP1741A, it still works in conventional mode and is finicky in storage mode. (Hard to find the right write current.) The LCD scope is a Rigol DS5102C. It works but the noisy trace compared to a nice clean CRT display is aesthetically displeasing to my elevated sense of beauty. Hey, I still use a Tek 547 for the razor sharp and needle thin trace. But the USB connection on the Rigol for getting screen capture is just soooo handy.
Scope question
Dec 09, 2008
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I'd start shopping eBay and CraigsList for dead HP1741A's, with problems that seem far, far away from the CRT.
Oh -- and I'd keep both scopes.
Tim Wescott
Wescott Design Services
http://www.wescottdesign.com
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"Applied Control Theory for Embedded Systems" gives you just what it says.
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That's not irrational.
I have 8 or so 547's, most of which work. The 547 had the best electron optics of any scope ever built. Next-gen CRTs used post-deflection meshes to make the tubes shorter, and spot size went to hell.
ftp://66.117.156.8/547_crt.JPG
John
Hmm, new wallpaper. I guess the picture of a Technics RS-1500 with the iso-loop is getting old...
The coiley things are delay lines that drive the distributed vertical deflection plates.
John
On a sunny day (Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:03:19 -0800) it happened John Larkin wrote in :
Nice
Oh yeah. 'cept for ebay, won't touch it; too much spam.
They both serve a useful purpose. You sometimes need USB and you sometimes need a decent trace. You have to keep both until you get a scope that has both characteristics.
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