[time-nuts] Repairs and mods underway on HP 3586b

2018-04-01 Thread Tisha Hayes
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 I

Re: [time-nuts] Repairs and mods underway on HP 3586b

2018-04-03 Thread Bob Darlington
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 wrote: > Thanks to those who responded to my requests off-list for detail

Re: [time-nuts] Repairs and mods underway on HP 3586b

2018-04-04 Thread Tisha Hayes
Bob, Thanks so much, as soon as I saw the key sequence I knew where that was going! If only more manufacturers had a sense of humor. We had a test-jig in our development lab that would go through a repeating sequence and spit out a text string for each step it completed; "It slices" *BEEP* "It