[time-nuts] Looking for a HP-58503 display

[Gregory Beat]

Mark -

Did you ever find a suitable replacement VFD for your HP-58503 ?
I see that a number of new old stock VFD for HP equipment (like 53131) have appeared on eBay (China, east Asia) in past month.

greg

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I recently got in an HP-58503B GPSDO from a local equipment liquidation auction. I had to pay too much, but wanted one to verify Lady Heather's support for the HP GPSDO's. It powered up at the equipment auction preview. but not when I brought it home. After replacing the power supply with a Meanwell RQ-15C - $20-$40 instead of $375 for the PowerOne that was in it and replacing the GPS receiver (it had a lot of difficulty tracking more than 2 sats) I have it working properly now.  

The unit has 83,000 hours of run time. I think it was last powered up in 2013. After a week the holdover uncertainty is around 8 us and the DAC is at +43%.

The display is a bit dim and blotchy. Does anybody have a replacement display that would look better? Contact me off-list if you have one or know of a source.

Mark Sims