Re: [time-nuts] Looking for a HP-58503 display

2019-06-18 Thread Gregory Beat via time-nuts
The Chinese source may be in better than condition of your current part.
auto*fan (Shenzhen) and Misesnbo2008 (Beijing) are two eBay resellers (among 
others).

Regarding the HP 3458A multi-meter ... 
here is a 2015 Lazarus story at xdevs & covered by element14.
Reviving the HP 3458A from the dead ... 1/2 of repair cost for Aligent 
transformer
https://xdevs.com/fix/hp3458a/

greg, w9gb
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Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 16:53:02 +
From: Mark Sims 
To: "time-nuts@lists.febo.com"
Subject: [time-nuts] Looking for a HP-58503 display

Nope, I never found a replacement display... still looking.   I think the 
displays showing up on eBay for various HP equipment are Chinese clones.   They 
even have displays for the 3458A multimenters.
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[time-nuts] Looking for a HP-58503 display

2019-06-17 Thread Mark Sims
Nope, I never found a replacement display... still looking.   I think the 
displays showing up on Ebay for various HP equipment are Chinese clones.   They 
even have displays for the 3458A multimenters.
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Re: [time-nuts] Looking for a HP-58503 display

2019-06-17 Thread Gregory Beat via time-nuts
Mark -

Did you ever find a suitable replacement VFD for your HP-58503 ?
I see that a number of new old stock VFD for HP equipment (like 53131) have 
appeared on eBay (China, east Asia) in past month.

greg

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I recently got in an HP-58503B GPSDO from a local equipment liquidation 
auction. I had to pay too much, but wanted one to verify Lady Heather's support 
for the HP GPSDO's. It powered up at the equipment auction preview. but not 
when I brought it home. After replacing the power supply with a Meanwell RQ-15C 
- $20-$40 instead of $375 for the PowerOne that was in it and replacing the GPS 
receiver (it had a lot of difficulty tracking more than 2 sats) I have it 
working properly now.  

The unit has 83,000 hours of run time. I think it was last powered up in 2013. 
After a week the holdover uncertainty is around 8 us and the DAC is at +43%.

The display is a bit dim and blotchy. Does anybody have a replacement display 
that would look better? Contact me off-list if you have one or know of a source.

Mark Sims

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