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Behalf Of Mark Sims
Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2009 7:55 PM
To: time-nuts@febo.com
Subject: [time-nuts] Volt-nuts cooperation?
Not nearly as good a deal as my $50 including manuals and shipping HP
3457A... you gotta love sellers that don't check the fuse...
Als
Does this happen even if the electrolytics are reformed before use?
Ed
Mark Sims wrote:
Not nearly as good a deal as my $50 including manuals and shipping HP 3457A...
you gotta love sellers that don't check the fuse...
Also one should be very wary of new-in-box vintage equipment. It tends t
Not nearly as good a deal as my $50 including manuals and shipping HP 3457A...
you gotta love sellers that don't check the fuse...
Also one should be very wary of new-in-box vintage equipment. It tends to have
a much greater failure rate than used equipment! The major culprit is bad
electro
Lucky me, I bought an HP3455A new still in the box for $300!
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From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com]on
Behalf Of Mark Sims
Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2009 5:05 PM
To: time-nuts@febo.com
Subject: [time-nuts] Volt-nuts cooperation?
The 3458A
The 3458A has two types of calibrations. The first is done every year or two
using the external references. The other is an internal self calibration which
you should run every day or two. This is pretty much standard for every high
res meter on the market today (except most want you to send
Hi Dick,
I am a little confused as to your needs. On the one hand you feel the hp3458A
is
a fine instrument only needing CAL every 2 years, yet you then say it needed
to
be CALd every 2 days to stay repeatable. That does not sound very
encouraging
and is indicative of other problems.
I
A couple of times a year, I could really use an HP 3458A. No way can I
justify spending upwards of $4-5k for such limited use. So, maybe some
of us could form a buyer/user group to share the cost of one of these
instruments, which could put it in the range of affordability for
each. For exa
