Re: Oscope advice

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Original poster: "Jim Lux by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>

465s are great scopes (as indicated by the remarkably high Ebay prices for 
a way obsolete (commercially) scope)..

One gotcha, though... make sure the tube is good and not burned.  I'll bet 
a replacement CRT for these is quite expensive.  The other thing is to not 
even bother buying one of these that isn't working, thinking you'll fix 
it.  You'll have a tough time finding replacement parts (particularly 
transistors and such for the vertical amps).

However, if it's working, and just needs readjustment, or recalibration, 
then, have at it...


At 05:29 PM 8/6/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>Original poster: "Peter Lawrence by way of Terry Fritz 
><teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Peter.Lawrence-at-Sun.COM>
>
>Terry,
>       I'm thinking of getting a used Tek 465 scope for tesla coil
>measurements. Do you have any comments on that model, or any related
>advice.
>
>-Pete Lawrence
>
>(ps, feel free to post response to tesla list if you think others will
>be interested).
>================
>Hi Pete,
>
>Tektronix has never made a bad scope ;-))  Avoid those giant ones that are 
>bigger than a cow.  Any of the smaller (12x18x8) style CRT scopes are 
>great.  I have long forgot which is the 465...  I looked on ebay and those 
>are great scopes!  They don't have fancy microprocessors ore anything but 
>they don't let you down.  Try and get the service manual if you can incase 
>you ever have to fiddle with it.  But they made zillions of those things 
>so everyone knows how to fix them if they ever were to break.
>
>Cheers,
>
>         Terry
>