Sujet : Re: Favourite Test Equipment
De : klauskvik (at) *nospam* hotmail.com (Klaus Vestergaard Kragelund)
Groupes : sci.electronics.design sci.electronics.repairDate : 06. Apr 2024, 00:35:46
Autres entêtes
Organisation : A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID : <uupuc2$1kv1m$1@dont-email.me>
References : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
User-Agent : Mozilla Thunderbird
On 05-04-2024 23:22, john larkin wrote:
On Fri, 5 Apr 2024 16:26:49 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
On 4/5/2024 3:49 AM, Jan Panteltje wrote:
On a sunny day (Thu, 4 Apr 2024 12:20:19 -0400) it happened bitrex
<user@example.net> wrote in <660ed343$0$1258343$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com>:
>
My most useful old machine dollar for dollar is my 8012B pulse generator!
>
<https://imgur.com/a/2GaSZVq>
>
Nice, real components...
>
>
$50 "not working." It was just a burned-out pilot lamp and dirty controls.
>
mm 50 dollars,
even today with people using dollars for wallpaper,
buys you a nice pulse generator on ebay..
>
It cost $1700 USD in the 1987 catalog, about $4500 equivalent today!
>
555 timer works fine too
Or use sox in Linux for all sort of audio, including sweeps:
https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/howto-sox-audio-tool-as-a-signal-generator.4242/
or just use a Raspberry Pi as signal generator:
https://panteltje.nl/panteltje/newsflex/download.html#freq_pi
Our DDG is about $4K, addmittedly over the top for a home lab.
http://highlandtechnology.com/DSS/P500DS.shtml
I love my beat-up old unit on my bench. Timing and levels are
brutally quantitative.
I bought a Siglent DDS SDG6022X for 1300USD, 200MHz thingie. I knew forehand that it could be hacked to 500MHz, so "saved" 3000 USD for 1 hours work :-)
https://www.batronix.com/shop/waveform-generator/Siglent-SDG6022X.htmlEEVBLOG has hacking details if anyone is interested...
Favourite Test Equipment
Re: Favourite Test Equipment