Shaun Merrigan
Classic Electronic Restoration, Vacuum Tube Audio, Technical History, Photography
Category: Tektronix
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Originally posted in June 2022 I have previously written about the substantial number of different plug-ins available for the Tektronix TM500 and TM5000 systems. Since the equipment is now anywhere from 20 – 50 years old it needs to be refreshed and/or repaired before going back into service. This often means working on the plug-ins while…
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Originally posted in December, 2023 Background The Tektronix CG511/5001 Calibration Generator is a source of calibrated timing signals, voltage and current waveforms, and pulses with low distortion/fast edges. The device can be used to calibrate and check oscilloscope performance characteristics. It has six basic modes and can be remotely programmed via the GPIB interface. It…
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Originally posted in June 2021 The Tektronix TM5006 is a 6-Bay power module which can host and power either TM5000 or TM500 plug-ins . Tektronix themselves had about 130 different plug-ins available which comprised power supplies, signal generators, oscilloscopes, multimeters, test oscillators, calibrators, attenuators, filters, logic analyzers, frequency counters, audio analyzers and more. In addition, numerous third…
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Originally posted in August 2017 Tektronix 7854 Waveform Keyboard Rebuild From the Tek Wiki: The Tektronix 7854 Waveform Processing Oscilloscope, introduced in 1980, is a 400 MHz combined analog / digital mainframe in the 7000 series that takes two vertical and two horizontal 7000-series plug-ins. In addition to a conventional analog (real time) scope, it contains an…
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Originally posted in January 2022 The HP3245A Universal Source (datasheet is copyright HP/Agilent) is a precision AC/DC voltage and current source that can provide a wide range of precise and repeatable voltages and currents up to +-100vdc and 100mA dc. It can also provide sine, square and arbitrary waveforms up to 1Mhz and 200vpp. Such an…