[time-nuts] Agilent 53132A Needs Help

[John Miles]

I'd be inclined to take the error message at face value; you have some
corruption in EPROM or flash memory that isn't in an area that gets used
during the measurements you're making.  Contacting an Agilent rep would make
sense, as the 53132A is new enough that there might be an easy way to
upgrade/reflash the firmware.

-- john, KE5FX

>
> One of my 53132As, an Agilent unit, s/n KR01202209 fail the power-on self
> test with a FAIL:ROM error message. During the test the front
> panel display
> looks quite odd compared with the other counters. If I ignore the
> error and
> press Recall (my settings are in Recall 1) I can proceed to what
> seems like
> normal operation and the time intervals I have been collecting
> for years on
> this counter seem OK.
>
>
>
> I opened it up and there is not much there. While I suppose I
> could perform
> some simple tests like checking power supply outputs, I just
> wondered if any
> of you have had a similar experience or if you knew of a
> reasonable place to
> have it repaired. I can only imagine what Agilent would charge for this.
>
>