Tisha, Magnus encouraged me to share my "Happy Easter" with you, or at least this demo that's kinda like an easter egg:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MZpnVs6CWc Enjoy, all. On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 8:24 PM, Tisha Hayes <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks to those who responded to my requests off-list for details on > correcting a partially functional HP 3586b. Here is where I am at with it; > > Replaced the incandescent lamp inside of the 5060-0329 rotary encoder for a > white LED with a resistor to work at 5VDC. > Ordered a 75 ohm BNC chassis jack > Installed two BNC-SMB cables for the 50 MHz connections that are normally > covered with blank plugs on the back panel > Removed all of the buttons and soaked them for a few hours in a mixture of > hydrogen peroxide and oxy-clean to remove the brownish oxidation > (in the process) of pulling the little wafer springs out of each switch and > rotating the metal around 180 degrees so the buttons do not need to make a > hard "click" > replaced the NiCad battery with an NiMH > > The unit already had the 10 MHz precision oscillator module (thanks to > Perry Sandeen for that). > > I have a couple of Rb standards that are already used for metrology > (spec-an's, tracking generators, R-590 and a couple of other receivers). I > will probably stick with those as frequency references as they are usually > running for days at a time. > > *Ms. Tisha Hayes, AA4HA* > _______________________________________________ > 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.
