Congratulations Magnus. Everyone needs at least one HP 5370, the more the better, even though mine are 'A' models...
One thing that has been mentioned before: the 5370 runs hot, both in terms of performance (good) and heat-wise (not so good). Be careful with the rear heat sink. You can fry eggs on it... It is noisy too. Didier KO4BB Magnus Danielson wrote: > Hi Fellow Time-nuts, > > My HP5370B arrived yesterday. I thought I needed to have one. > > The bad thing was that the packaging was not really as I would have wishes, so > the package had been misshandled and was "soft" on the walls. The left handle > was severly bent and also the lower back-foot was twisted out of place and the > screw was bent. The display rate knob was also bent, but still turns. Looks > like a separate incident. Opening things up and everything looks OK. I also > did the arrival checkout and it checks out OK. The oscillator don't seem to be > too off in frequency so I don't think that it was hurt by the crash. > > I have been fairly fortunate so far in shipping in general, so this was a > border case. This will not be my only counter thought, so I have a higher > tolerance for discrepancies. It is certainly not DOA, just a bit beat up. > > Besides those issues, it looks like a good unit and I will need to clean the > cover off. > > I will trim it up eventually (that is, later this weekend, maybe today). A few > of the tests in the full program could be a little hard to do with the gear I > have where as many will be fairly easy. > > Just came to realize that I now have 4 HP 10811 oscillators throughout my > instruments. However none laying on the side. Yeat. > > Cheers, > Magnus > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
