I bought two several years ago, one was advertised as working and the other as broken. Turns out both had the same problem: the socket syndrome, common on these instruments. I paid $100 for each.
They would work intermittently. I have not seen one near that price recently. I have since replaced all the sockets with gold plated, machined pin sockets and the problems are mostly gone. Didier KO4BB Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless thingy while I do other things... -----Original Message----- From: Chris Albertson <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:40:12 To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement<[email protected]> Reply-To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] 5370A on eBay On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Don Lewis <[email protected]> wrote: > Just curious, pls.... > > What would be a reasonable price to pay for one of these counters? It seems to depend hugely on the risk you are willing to take. This most resent counter is listed as "not functioning as intended, returns not accepted" but does show a mostly working display. It might be just fine and work OK. Others are listed as being recently calibrated and come with 30 day warranty I think $250 to $500 for a "It may work, but no returns accepted" counter and a lot more for one with a warranty. Other counters are cheaper. the HP5328 is very affordable ($50 if you can wait for a deal) but of course is not nearly as nice of a machine. Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ 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.
