Right. I'll try to do the same: locating a 54717 to rent. On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 8:52 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Haven't run into that battery problem.. but rented the 51717 from an Ebay > offerer for low $$ in the past. > > I simply sent him an email saying, "I see you are selling that unit in your > ebay store, can I rent it from you for a week"? > > And he did.. > > I did have a power supply go bad, and simply bought an 83480A digital comm > analyzer for about $200 on Ebay, that has the same exact platform, and one > can re-use the parts on the 54720D (power, monitor, etc etc). > > That entire unit came cheaper by margin than trying to buy just the power > supply itself. > > bye, > Said > > > In a message dated 4/17/2012 03:38:41 Pacific Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > Good, the HP54720. We have one but, unfortunately, lost the calibration > (backup battery dead). Now it need the HP51717 to complete the > calibration. > So be warned not to let the backup battery go flat: replace it trying to > supply, with a diode, the NVRAM. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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.
