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This Wiki
Welcome to TekWiki, a wiki for the community of Tektronix oscilloscope enthusiasts.
The purpose of this website is to help people get information about classic Tektronix equipment. You don't need an account if you just want to read pages and download files.
- There is nothing for sale here. This site is not affiliated with the company Tektronix; it was built purely by volunteer effort.
To find what you need, you can browse the various tabs on the top of this Main Page where most instruments are listed, e.g. the "Tube Scopes" section. We also have visual index pages for important series of instruments that help identify instruments from photos.
Even easier is using the "Search TekWiki" box on the top of the page, e.g. to locate instruments by type number.
The manuals stored on this site are named following their Tektronix part numbers. They are indexed on the Manuals page and always linked to the respective instrument's page, so it is easiest to start from a specific model's page.
Every now and then you may find a red link on one of our pages – this means that the linked page has not been written yet, or we do not yet have a copy of the linked document. If you have any helpful information, please see below.
For a flat list of all products for which we have articles on this wiki, please see Product Pages.
Documentation
Manuals, Catalogs, Reference Documents, and Other Publications
- Manuals
- Concepts Series
- Application Notes
- Tektronix Magazines - Tekscope, Service Scope, and Service Teknotes
- Tektronix Catalogs contain a wealth of information.
- Tektronix Films
- Telequipment Catalogs
- Telequipment Manuals
- Telequipment CRTs
- Tektronix Cartoons
- Tekalendar 1971 (also good for 2021 and 2027)
- Reference Material – Parts catalogs, data sheets/books, ...
Technical Information
- ACVS
- Aquadag
- Bandwidth Limit Filters
- Bridged T-coil
- Deflection blanking
- Delay line
- Direct-view storage CRT
- Distributed amplifier
- Distributed deflection plates
- Ft doubler
- Interfaces
- Multi-band acceleration
- Nixie tubes
- Phantastron
- Sampler
- Sampling
- Scan converter
- Spiral accelerator
- Time domain reflectometers
- Trace rotation
- Transfer storage CRT
- Tunnel diodes
- Vacuum tubes
Repairs/Maintenance
Please see Individual Instrument repair reports for specific issues.
Common Repair Issues
- 11A-series plug-in NVRAM replacement
- 200-series Miniscope pouches
- 3D Printing Models
- 7000-series Plug-in Sockets
- Back-lit switches
- Bad TI IC sockets
- "Black Beauty" or "Bumble Bee" capacitors
- Ceramic Strips
- Cleaning
- Connectors
- Dust filter
- Electrolytic capacitors
- Fan mounts
- Germanium transistors
- High ESR capacitors
- HV transformers
- Leather handles
- Line Sockets
- Logic analyzer input lead replacements (P64xx)
- Mercury switches
- Miniature relays
- NVRAM errors
- Potentiometers
- Pushbutton switches
- Cleaning and Maintenance of Rotary Switches
- Rotary input switches
- ROM images
- Sampling diodes
- Selenium rectifiers
- Tektronix-made Integrated Circuits
- TM500 extender solutions
- Troubleshooting sampling scopes
- Tunnel diodes
- Turret attenuators
- Vacuum tubes
History
- Notable Tektronix employees
- Products by year
- Report on 067- Fixtures (OCR)
- 1956 Tek Personnel Photos
- 1958 Tek Personnel Photos
- "You and Tektronix" staff manual, 1956
- Special Colors
- Tektronix part numbers
- Tektronix: The Entrepreneurial Period
- Tektronix 1968 Annual Report
- Tek publications list, June 1985
- Tektronix Buildings
Database
External Links
- Discussion groups
- Tek-related groups on Groups.io (formerly on Yahoo): TekScopes / TekScopes2 / tek500 (TM500/TM5000)
- Old Tek Scopes group on Facebook
- wellenkino.de Oscilloscope Forum and Gallery (in German)
- Resources
- Gianni Becattini's beautiful illustrated books dedicated to Tektronix oscilloscopes New Editions as of January 2024
- Printed book from Gianni available (as of March 2024)
- KO4BB Didier's Wiki / KO4BB Tektronix Manuals
- Library of Congress Vintage Manuals, Brochures, Catalogs, & Reports
- Barrytech Tektronix Vintage Equipment
- Tektronix Analog Oscilloscopes on Wikipedia
- Museums and Collections
- vintageTEK museum
- Tekscope Museum (German)
- The Museum of Tektronix Scopes (UK)
- Julian Bunn's Tek page
- KC0WOX's Tektronix Page
- Richard Sears' Vintage Oscilloscope Page
- amplifier.cd Equipment photos and repairs (German)
- Oscilloscope Museum - Tektronix page
- Our sister project, GRWiki, documents General Radio products