[time-nuts] Lab upgrade

[Jason Ball]

Ok - not so bad.

One of the 250v 5Amp inside the case blew on the 10v line.   Now to work
out why...

J.


On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Jason Ball <jason at ball.net> wrote:

>
> Recently I've been on the hunt for test gear so facilitate moving up into
> the microwave bands (ham radio), accurate timing being one of the basics to
> be sorted.   As part of this I've recently acquired a HP 5335A with OCXO
> and HP5350B microwave frequency counter, both picked up today.
>
> I've setup a test stack using a stanford research function generator and
> my existing HP 5384A counter to compare all the kit, it was nice to see
> everything lock in within +5Hz @ 10MHz using only the internal reference.
> I'll have a GPSDO running in a couple of days to provide an external
> reference as well.
>
> Unfortunately after running for 15 minutes the HP 5335A literally went
> 'clunk' and now has no display which is disappointing as I wanted some of
> the measurement functions this unit provides.   There's no odd small (for
> an old system) so I'm hoping its a reasonably simple problem, I'll open the
> case tonight.
>
> Does anybody have any experience with issues on the HP 5335A's ?
>
> Cheers
> j.
>
>
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>
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