Perhaps LeCroy has changed it's spots from the NIM and CAMAC days, but any documentation, like service manuals, was completely unavailable. I tried several times.
I am not about to buy anything where at least a schematic is not available. I have never sent an instrument in for factory service, and never will. It's far too expensive. -John ============== > > With Scopes the company that has impressed me is LeCroy, not only are all > their manuals on line, but where they really shine is service prices, > their parts and repairs are very very reasonable. > Although Agilent, and Tektronix make fine products, I am now exclusively > LeCroy. And NO I do not own stock in LeCroy. > Thomas Knox > > > >> Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:44:40 -0500 >> From: bow...@gmail.com >> To: time-nuts@febo.com >> Subject: [time-nuts] Tek to HP conversion... Was: Re: Fwd: FE-5680A >> Contact FEI >> >> I was a Tek aficionado for many many years. My first personal scope was >> a >> tek, my first work scope was a Tek. I've owned at least half a dozen >> over >> the decades. The three scopes I own today are Tek. But everything else >> on >> my lab bench has changed over to HP (with the exception of a couple of >> TM5006 mainframes full of specialty plugins). >> >> The quality, availability, and most important to me, the consistency of >> HP >> gear has been impressive. I've yet to go into a lab where the majority >> of >> basic RF equipment, counters, sig gens, spectrum analyzers, etc was not >> HP. >> Unless they were lucky enough to have R&S. >> >> The ability to get manuals, parts, and just plain guidance on the HP >> gear >> has been great. >> >> Now if I can score an HP Primary or GPSDO standard, I'll be happy. >> >> >> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 1:26 PM, paul swed <paulsw...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > I believe in HPs case a unique situation occurred on the old gear. >> > That is there were and are people at agilent willing to take the time >> to >> > preserve their history. After all its still pretty fantastic stuff >> even at >> > 20, 30, and yes I have a piece in the 40-50 years old era. Generally >> > amazingly well built. I do know that when test and measurement was HP >> their >> > support was top notch both for me professionally and personally. It >> did >> > effect what I chose to buy for the business. But on the personal side >> they >> > always helped I was above board about why I was calling. >> > Ahhh for the good ole days. >> > Regards >> > Paul >> > WB8TSL >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com >> To unsubscribe, go to >> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >> and follow the instructions there. > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.