User:Qfissler
Not entirely neurotypical.
...and I sometimes apologise. But, seriously, the atypical style of thinking which I often employ is probably more widespread than we might first assume.
I like to break paragraphs into punchy statements - and I think that many others do.
I like to quote
text from the Tek manuals as fixed font blocks
...separate from the paragraph.
I often pepper my writing with breaks
I wonder why some people dislike what I think is best...
Playing with formatting. Maybe I'll try some other skins and using mobile to see why some formatting is preferred over others
Based in London, UK
Been using Tek scopes for many, many years.
I own a couple of scopes not on this wiki
Notes for other users
I've got a manual for the TelequipmenT Type 43 (D43/D.43/D.43R/S.43) which is from 1965, the one on this wiki is newer. The one I've got has appendices for plugins D, G and H which are not in the 1968 printing. I see that there might be separate manuals for the plugins on the wiki - I've not checked all three but I see that my appendix for the H plugin has different content. All I've spotted so far is that the one on the wiki doesn't list all of the transistors (though the schematic shows the types) and is missing the two variable inductors, L21 and L22, which are listed as:
2.2/5.1μH Variable Inductor (Brown/Yellow)
I might add this to the H plugin page or its Discussion section.
Notes to me
Wiki style hints
I need to remind myself to refer to the style guide for this wiki:
Tekwiki_Guidelines
OCR
The upload tasks page recommends that we overwrite a PDF if we OCR it - then all existing links would continue to work. I think that we should share more info about good OCR methods as mine seem to be less good than ones I download from this wiki. I'll share notes about what fails for me...
...I've forgotten what fails - but just tried `ocrmypdf` and that worked very well - the recognised text lines up with the image text - best results so far. Will also try `pdfsandwich`
~/Electronics/Scopes/TekTronix/2215/Letter$ ls -l total 888 -rw-rw-r-- 1 qfissler qfissler 228209 Apr 29 16:16 Cover.jpeg -rw-rw-r-- 1 qfissler qfissler 202448 Apr 29 16:17 P1.jpeg -rw-rw-r-- 1 qfissler qfissler 204825 Apr 29 16:17 P2.jpeg -rw-rw-r-- 1 qfissler qfissler 114941 Apr 29 16:17 P3.jpeg -rw-rw-r-- 1 qfissler qfissler 135700 Apr 29 16:17 P4.jpeg ~/Downloads/Electronics/Scopes/TekTronix/2215/Letter$ convert Cover.jpeg P* T940-letter-June-1983.pdf convert-im6.q16: attempt to perform an operation not allowed by the security policy `PDF' @ error/constitute.c/IsCoderAuthorized/421. ~/Downloads/Electronics/Scopes/TekTronix/2215/Letter$ img2pdf *.jpeg --output T940-letter-June-1983.pdf
~/Downloads/Electronics/Scopes/TekTronix/2215/Letter$ ls -l total 1760 -rw-rw-r-- 1 qfissler qfissler 228209 Apr 29 16:16 Cover.jpeg -rw-rw-r-- 1 qfissler qfissler 202448 Apr 29 16:17 P1.jpeg -rw-rw-r-- 1 qfissler qfissler 204825 Apr 29 16:17 P2.jpeg -rw-rw-r-- 1 qfissler qfissler 114941 Apr 29 16:17 P3.jpeg -rw-rw-r-- 1 qfissler qfissler 135700 Apr 29 16:17 P4.jpeg -rw-rw-r-- 1 qfissler qfissler 889550 Apr 30 23:25 T940-letter-June-1983.pdf
~/Downloads/Electronics/Scopes/TekTronix/2215/Letter$ ocrmypdf T940-letter-June-1983.pdf T940-letter-June- 1983-OCR.pdf Scanning contents: 100%|██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████| 5/5 [00:00<00:00, 234.99page/s] Start processing 5 pages concurrently OCR: 100%|█████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████| 5.0/5.0 [00:05<00:00, 1.01s/page] Postprocessing... PDF/A conversion: 100%|████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████| 5/5 [00:01<00:00, 4.98page/s] Recompressing JPEGs: 0image [00:00, ?image/s] Deflating JPEGs: 100%|███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████| 5/5 [00:00<00:00, 326.60image/s] JBIG2: 0item [00:00, ?item/s] Optimize ratio: 1.02 savings: 1.8% Output file is a PDF/A-2B (as expected) ~/Downloads/Electronics/Scopes/TekTronix/2215/Letter$
Manuals
It turns out that I have a couple of manuals for which there were no scans on this wiki.
I've scanned two already.
Another to do is the 7603 Operators Instruction Manual 070-1310-00.pdf - left reference here to remind me and opportunity for anyone to prod me in case they need it.
Experimental pages
Reminder to test these on mobile and various.
I learned recently that the thickness of the 7000 series plugin PCBs (and presumably others) is ⅟16". There's no unicode symbol for that so I thought I'd try and take note of these two options:
This is test text to check alignment 1/16" and trailing text.
This is test text to check alignment ⅟16" and trailing text.
This is test text to check alignment 1/16" and trailing text.
This is test text to check alignment ⅟16" and trailing text.
This is test text to check alignment and trailing text.
Some scopes, enclosures and plugins
| idx | Series | Model | Options | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 5000 | 5103N | D12 Dual beam display module. | Missing plugins. Strange light mark on CRT/implosion guard. |
| 1 | 5000 | 5103N | D12, 5A18N, 5A22N, 5B12N and all five manuals to suit. | Near immaculate. Close inspection reveals that the 5B12N is missing a chip! 155-0056-00 sweep gen / trigger - so the 5B12N is no longer a dual timebase... |
| 2 | TM500 | TM501 | Seems to work OK. | |
| 3 | TM500 | TM503 | Seems to work OK. Missing top cover. | |
| 4 | TM500 | TM506 | Option 7 | Seems to work OK. |
| 5 | TM500 | PG501 | Will service and calibrate this soon. | |
| 6 | TM500 | DC503 | Needs repair but mostly working. Completely worn print on five of the ten buttons. | |
| 7 | TM500 | FG504 | No power... | |
| 8 | TM500 | PG506 | Will service and calibrate this soon. | |
| 9 | 7000 | 7603 | 7A18, 7A18 & 7B53A | Engineer says it worked before he stored it but no trace visible now... |
| 10 | 7000 | 7603 | 7A26, 7A22 & 7B53A | |
| 11 | 7000 | 7613 | Opt 6 Spectrum Analyser Graticule, 7A15Ax2 & 7B53N | |
| 12 | 7000 | 7613 | 7CT1N | Latest purchase. Very pleased to own a CT! Focus drift on warming up. Modified case. |
| 13 | 7000 | R7623 | 7A15A, 7A26, 7B92A & folding rack handles. | My least favourite Tek scope? ...but gives me the 7A26 and 7B92A |
| 14 | 7000 | 7633 | 7A15A, 7A18 & 7B50 | |
| 15 | 7000 | 7633 | 7A26, 7M11 & 7B92A | |
| 16 | 7000 | 7704A | 7A18, Cal Fixture, 7D15 & 7B53 | Oh dear - moisture damaged - but a couple of interesting plugins! |
| 17 | 200 | 222PS | Carrying bag, pouch with probes as new, ops manual. | Pristine! Needs replacement battery pack and alignment - I could find that caps or dry joints need work when I try that... |
| 18 | 400 | 455 | Pouch, Front cover, manuals | Queued for repair - completely DOA. |
| 19 | 400 | 465 | Pouch, OPT 7 (DC PSU Input) | Queued for repair - no trace. |
| 20 | 400 | 465 | OPT 4 (EMI reduced), OPT 7 (DC PSU Input) | Queued for repair - no trace. |
| 21 | 400 | 465B | Front cover, pouch, manuals, calibration records. | Pristine (bar rear feet) |
| 22 | 400 | 465B | Twitchy - needs service. | |
| 23 | 400 | 465B | Twitchy - needs service. | |
| 24 | 400 | 466 | Analogue storage version of 465 | |
| 25 | 400 | 468 | Storage version of 465B | |
| 26 | 400 | 468 | Damage to A trigger control... | |
| 27 | 400 | 468 | Cover, Op Manual, OPT 4 (EMI), OPT A2 (3 metre power cord with UK plug) | |
| 28 | TDS2000 | TDS2012B | USB version of TDS2012. I'm amazed how accurate it is for frequency readout. I need to take photos for the wiki! | |
| 29 | 2000 | 2215 | Queued for repair: Got this from an engineer who says the trace is distorted. | |
| 30 | 2000 | 2445 | Pouch. | Queued for repair: Got this from someone who said it worked 8 years ago. Needs PSU caps and more. Row of knobs below CRT all smashed. |
| 31 | 2000 | 2445A | Pouch, front cover. | Queued for repair: Got this from an engineer who says it has been on Royal Navy tour to The Falklands. Pristine front panel. |
| 32 | 2000 | 2445B | Pouch | Queued for repair: Engineer replaced all caps and gave up when it didn't work. Collapsed deflection. |
| 33 | 2000 | 2465 | I'd forgotten I had this - it was in a bundle of things I bought... | |
| 34 | 2000 | 2465 | Bought for spares! I was told that channel 1 & 2 didn't work. On inspection, I can see that the impeller was removed as the shaft grip was broken. That's likely to mean that the chan 1&2 failure was caused by overheating - and I'd not expect U800 to have survived, either. | |
| 35 | 2000 | 2465B | Pouch, OPT 2 (Probe Power) | Queued for repair: RIFA caps + NVRAM (already backed up! Got FRAM replacement to fit.) |
| 36 | 2000 | 2465B | Pouch | My favourite scope! |
| 37 | Waveform Monitors | 1485C | Dual-standard Television Waveform Monitor. Wondering what to do with this... not useful with modern television signals... Maybe restore, take photos, put on display... Scope Clock? (external module - leaving it intact) |
| Model | Options | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| DM63 | I bought this cheap for spares. Hopefully the 155-0056-00 is working so I can complete my 5103N | |
| D67A | Front cover, manuals, calibration records | Immaculate! |
| D75 | Horizontal version of D83 | |
| D83 | I love this for the large screen - same tube as 7403N and 7603 |
I have others... I intend to share more info some time soon.