[time-nuts] Subject: Re: Oscilloquartz 3210 Cesium Standard

[John Miles]

Looks like a really nice piece of hardware, well worth fixing up.  You might check the hot-wire ionizer filament on the Cs tube for continuity, as a failure there may not show up in a meter indication. 

Apart from that, the detailed troubleshooting steps in the contemporary HP Cs service manuals (5061A/5061B generation) would be very much applicable to this one.  The block diagram will be similar.  You could try measuring the beam current and SNR manually if all else fails; one approach that I used is detailed at http://www.ke5fx.com/cs.htm .  

-- john, KE5FX
Miles Design LLC

> -----Original Message-----
> From: time-nuts [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On Behalf Of Chris
> Sent: Friday, August 29, 2014 2:05 PM
> To: time-nuts at febo.com
> Subject: [time-nuts] Subject: Re: Oscilloquartz 3210 Cesium Standard
>
> So what am I missing ?. Did fill in the enquiry form at the
> Oscilloquartz web site a few days ago, but no reply. Should I try again,
> or are are there some special runes you need to recite before they will
> talk to you ? :-). Would be quite happy to pay a reasonable fee for a
> copy of the manual, paper or pdf...
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Chris