Re: [time-nuts] Heads Up to HP 5371A 5372A Owners

2010-01-09 Thread Steve Rooke
Thanks for the heads-up Ed! Steve 2010/1/9 Ed Palmer ed_pal...@sasktel.net: I was recently having trouble with one of the 54002A input pods on my 5372A.  It was occasionally being recognized as a 54001A pod.  I took it apart and found that 7 of the 8 solder joints between the circuit board

[time-nuts] Heads Up to HP 5371A 5372A Owners

2010-01-08 Thread Ed Palmer
I was recently having trouble with one of the 54002A input pods on my 5372A. It was occasionally being recognized as a 54001A pod. I took it apart and found that 7 of the 8 solder joints between the circuit board and the connector at the back of the pod were bad. I checked my other pods and

Re: [time-nuts] Heads Up to HP 5371A 5372A Owners

2010-01-08 Thread J. Forster
HP is NOT perfect. I have a 5519A LaserInterferometer head which was acting up. They are distinctly non-trivial to fix. Anyway, this one had a critical feedback detector that had NEVER been soldered to the PCB. Moral: Look for the simple faults first. -John = I was recently

Re: [time-nuts] Heads Up to HP 5371A 5372A Owners

2010-01-08 Thread paul swed
Thats good to know the same pods are used on the 54100d scope I believe. At least its the same concept so the same failure mechanism may be at work. On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Ed Palmer ed_pal...@sasktel.net wrote: I was recently having trouble with one of the 54002A input pods on my