Electronics Forum / Equipment / November 2003

I just acquired an HP 8640B and now I'd like to get rid of my HP 606A but I
need to go below 500 KHz.  I wonder if anyone has had any experience with
the HP 11710A or B that they'd care to comment on.  I'd also like to know if
there's any other reasonably priced LF sig gen that's ...

I have an odd problem with one of my TVs, and maybe this is the right forum
to get help.
We're in a rural area with no cable or broadcast TV, so we have two
satellite systems, DishNetwork and 4DTV/C-Band.  The receivers are in the

Does anyone know how I can check if the Philips 36 widescreen tv (36PW9767)
is NTSC compatible?

I remember reading a usenet post several years ago that cautioned about how
to connect a sig gen to a circuit under test. A tech stated that he had to
replace the internal resistor in several units because one tech kept burning
it out due to load mismatch. I believe it had to do ...

Looking for some advice/experience (from folks who have actually used
these particular items! :-) on choosing between the Weller WES51 and
Hakko 936-12 (both ESD safe) soldering stations.  I'm upgrading from
my Radio Shack iron for occasional home/hobby use (DIP and SMT PCB

I Know that this is a dumb question but, I am curious anyway.
Lets just say that I need an 18 volt DC power source and that the source
has to come from one of those transformers? that plug into the wall and
change AC to DC.

What am I looking for? I don't even know what to call it. But it would sense
temperature (or light or sound level or electrical current or ...  ) and
input data (through serial or USB ports?) for capture into a database.
Presumably I would graph the results with Excel. Input data ...

Hallo from Poland - sorry for errors in my english !!!
I have a problem with SONY CD-player CDP-XE800. After some basic mechanism
cleaning. The player stop working. Firstly the sound was very silent -
MUTING was always ON. I tried to find what happend - after fer voltage

I have an HP 54645D with a GPIB module installed, and I'd like to get data
into my computer. I don't need anything fancy and I don't want to control or
program the 'scope.
I'm using the phase function to measure the drift between 10 Mhz oscillators

Hi everybody! i want to know how do the gloves used for virtual
reality, for translate the movements of the user's hands to the pc.
Same thing with the helmet used in this activity, ¿how translates the
head movement when the user moves his head to see something in virtual

I bought an 8165A function generator on eBay and, while the function
generating stuff appears to work fine, the display is a bit wacky.  It works
fine for a few minutes, but then both single LEDs and the seven-segment
displays start to do goofy things (like staying lit when they are ...

I have a HP 8640B RF Generator with some broken nylon gears inside. This
appears to be a frequent problem. Does anyone know where to obtain spare
gears?
Best Regards

Help!
I am looking for a boot disk/image for the Hewlett Packard 1650A logic
analyser.
From what I gather the disk format is not DOS, and there is little

Want to buy:
0955-0277 YIG Tuned Filter for HP 8563A Spectrum Analyzer.
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I looking for STK65020 = 5 pcs, MB89255A = 10 pcs and datasheet. Please
reply as soon as
possible, thank you.
Regards,