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Tektronix 2465 300Mhz 4-channel oscilloscope repair

2016/05/14 By staze

Tektronix 2465On a recent trip to Portland, I stopped by Surplus Gizmos, and found a used, as-is, Tektronix 2465 scope that had a calibration sticker on it saying “unit smoked while calibrating”. The scope was listed as $100, but I was able to get it for $60. I know the unit isn’t worth a ton, but it is a 300Mhz scope, and is seemingly considered one of the best Tektronix scopes ever (it’s also considered the last repairable Tek scope, as after this, most scope manufacturers stopped including schematics and other information with the scope). Also, the unit showed to have been manufactured around 1984, which is when my grandfather still worked at Tektronix writing manuals for scopes. So he may have very well worked on the manual for this scope.

Opening the scope up, I figured the issue was going to be the power supply, as that seems to be the common failure in this scope, and really any device of this age. The capacitors dry out, change ESR, overheat, blow, etc. Getting the fan off was really the hardest part of getting the power supply out, but once I figured that out (and broke the mandril holding the fan. =/) I got the PSU out, and quickly found the failure points ((Note, to remove the fan, you loosen the nut, then holding the fan “cage”, PUSH on the nut-screw toward the scope. That will push out the mandril and release it from the shaft. If it won’t release, please be careful. I got lucky and my mandril broke in a repairable way. I’ve seen pictures where they completely shatter, and there don’t seem to be any replacements available)). One of the caps on the low voltage side had ruptured, and also R1016 and C1016 on the mains input were both blown. There are plenty of online guides about re-capping this scope, but the only one I found with actual part numbers and quantities was here. His list is for the 2465B, but the 2465 is very similar as far as the PSU, the main difference is the lack of the SMD caps that everyone says to replace. Instead, there are three through-hole caps on the Digital board that you can replace.

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Filed Under: Electronics Tagged With: 2465, repair, Tektronix

Fluke 8021B LCD Repair 2

2016/05/05 By staze 6 Comments

8021b-screenKnowing no end to my suffering, I realized I enjoyed repairing a friends Fluke 8021B so much, that I bought my own off eBay for $20 and decided to repair it. Checking the meter out before the repair, everything seemed to work just fine, including the historically amazing continuity beeper ((the whole reason I bought it, since it has a trigger time of 50µs (that’s 50 micro-seconds, or 0.00005 seconds). Meaning it only has to see continuity for that long before the beeper sounds. So you can quite literally sweep along an IC pretty fast to find which pin may/may not have continuity to your test point. Thankfully, there’s also a pulse stretcher that means even if you only have continuity for those 50µs, the beeper will sound for at least 200ms.)) ((And yes, theoretically the 8060a has a faster beeper, but… okay, fine, I’m a meter collector, and I couldn’t turn down an 8021B for $20.)).

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Filed Under: Electronics Tagged With: 8021B, Fluke 8021B, repair

Fender Frontman Reverb Repair

2016/04/21 By staze

Frontman ReverbAges and ages ago, a coworker brought me his Fender Frontman Reverb amp saying it didn’t work. He had a second one that did work, so there wasn’t any rush to get it working, so I took the unit home, and went to work on it. Disassembly was easy enough, and finding the schematics showed that the unit was identical to the Fender Frontman 15R, which has schematics (in the service manual) here. The US Fender site SAYS it has schematics for the 15G-15R, but only the 15G is shown, meaning the whole reverb section is left out. =/

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Filed Under: Electronics Tagged With: Fender, Frontman, repair, Reverb, Switchcraft

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