[time-nuts] Agilent 53132A Needs Help

[David]

> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:00:04 -0500
> From: tomknox at nist.gov
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Agilent 53132A Needs Help
> To: "Yuri Ostry" <yuri at ostry.ru>, "Discussion of precise time and
> 	frequency	measurement" <time-nuts at febo.com>
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> Hi Yuri;
> I am late to this thread, but if you have not tried this, reseating 
> the 4 or 2 eproms which are socketed near the rear may solve the
> problem. I am currently having the same problem with one of mine and  
> in the past this have solved the problem on other units.
> Good Luck;
> Thomas Knox
> NIST
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> tomknox at nist.gov
>
 
I think I've seen seven Agilent 54132A counters and three of units flagged a
ROM fault after Power On Self Test. They had all been well looked after,
sitting in racks in a very high end environment, I suspect they were
switched on continuously all year. The last statement may be a clue of
course.

I did have a very brief play with the 'faulty' ones and things seemed to
work after the fault message was acknowledged, I could not see any symptoms
other than the self test error message. A nice counter but I'm getting ever
more nervous about the ability of current test equipment to survive 5 to 10
years.

David