I agree that electrolit like to fail, after years of sitting on a shelf. I have had the 3455 for 6/7 years, and has not given me any problems. Year ago, a brand new RF section for an 8568 found me; this has been good, as well.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Mark Sims Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2009 7:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [time-nuts] Volt-nuts cooperation? Not nearly as good a deal as my $50 including manuals and shipping HP 3457A... you gotta love sellers that don't check the fuse... Also one should be very wary of new-in-box vintage equipment. It tends to have a much greater failure rate than used equipment! The major culprit is bad electrolytic capacitors. Electrolytic caps that had never really been powered up and that sat unused for ages tend to fail much more often than caps that had been powered up for a reasonable amount of time early in their life (even if they then sat unused for extended periods). ----------------------------- Lucky me, I bought an HP3455A new still in the box for $300! _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail® has ever-growing storage! Don’t worry about storage limits. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Storage?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutoria l_Storage_062009 _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
