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Tektronix 181
Time mark generator
181, early version

Produced from 1955 to (?)

Manuals
(All manuals in PDF format unless noted otherwise)
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The Tektronix Type 181 is a time mark generator introduced in 1955. There is a benchtop version, the 181, and a rackmount version, the RM181.

MOD 110 substitutes a oven-stabilized1 MHz crystal oscillator (OCXO), the CO181 (Tek part number 158-007), thereby achieving 2 parts per million frequency stability in a 24 hour period, the same stability as the 180A. A 181 with the OCXO mod is a "181 S1".

Internals

Internally, the 181 is similar to the 180. The oscillator drives a chain of synchronized monostable multivibrators. Each multivibrator is triggered by the output of the previous stage, and cannot be triggered again for the duration of its pulse width. In the 181, the pulse width ratio of one stage to the next is 1:10, i.e. when a stage triggers on a pulse at its input, it propagates that event to its output, but inhibits the next nine pulses (by time, not by counting).

The 181 also provides a 10 MHz output. This is generated by a 10 MHz resonator that is driven by an amplified and waveshaped copy of the 1 MHz crystal oscillator output. Since it is a harmonic, the 10 MHz output has same relative frequency accuracy as the reference oscillator.

The power supply of the 181 produces +300 V and −150 V regulated voltages and +400 V, −8 V, and −25 V unregulated. The voltage reference is a 5651 tube. The output tubes for both regulators are 12B4 and the feedback amplifier tubes are 6AU6. The 181 does not contain a fan or a thermal cutoff.

Pictures

Components

Some Parts Used in the 181

Part Part Number(s) Class Description Used in
12AU7 154-041 154-0041-00 154-0287-00 Vacuum Tube (Dual Triode) dual medium-μ triode 104 104A 122 160 161 162 181 190 310 310A 316 317 3C66 502 502A 507 511A 512 516 517 517A 524 526 535 536 545 545A 545B 547 549 555 561 564 570 575 581 581A 585 585A C D E N Q Hickok 1825
6AL5 154-016 154-0016-00 154-0038-00 Vacuum Tube (Dual Diode) high-perveance dual diode 163 181 190 1M1 310 310A 315 316 317 3B1 3B1S 3B2 3B3 3B5 502 502A 503 511 511A 512 516 517 517A 524 526 535 535A 545 545A 549 551 565 570 581 581A 585 585A C T Telequipment D52 Telequipment D56 Telequipment S52
6AU6 154-0022-00 157-0073-00 157-0059-00 154-0284-00 Vacuum Tube (Pentode) RF pentode 107 160 181 190 60 2A60 72 3A72 3C66 310 310A 316 317 360 502 502A 506 511 511A 512 513 516 517 517A 524 526 529 RM529 531 531A 535 536 545 545A 546 547 549 555 561 561A 561S 564 565 567 570 575 581 581A 585 585A 80 C CA Q
6BQ7A 154-028 154-0028-00 157-0022-00 157-0003-00 Vacuum Tube (Dual Triode) dual triode 107 163 181 310 315 316 360 524 531 532 535 536 541 545 570 T
6X4 154-035 154-0035-00 Vacuum Tube (Dual Rectifier) dual rectifier 128 130 181 511A 512 517 517A 570