[volt-nuts] 3458A Questions

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <C876E529248E41D2B39EA89D711B0F8F at S0028384766>, "J. L. Trantham" writes:

>I am thinking about adding a 3458A to my list of 'things to think about' and
>was wondering if there were any suggestions about what things to consider
>when trying to find one.

Make sure it is calibrated and that the calibration constants have
not been lost due to old NVRAMS.

Back up CALRAM asap. when you receive unit.

Extra memory is just a couple of standard static RAM chips don't bother.

>I presume the addition of Option 002 would be simply a change of the
>reference board with a re-calibration.

You probably don't need option 002 since your unit is pre-aged.

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk at FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe    
Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.