S-3

Tektronix S-3
Sampling Head S-3A head Compatible with 7000 and 3S series sampling heads Produced from 1969 to 1989 Manuals Tektronix S-3 Manual (OCR) Tektronix S-3 Manual Foldouts (whole, color) Tektronix S-3 Modification at Serial Number B020120 Tektronix S-3A Manual (070-1148-01 also exists) (All manuals in PDF format unless noted otherwise)

Manuals – Specifications – Links – Pictures

The Tektronix S-3 sampling head is a plug-in head for use with the 7000 series sampling plug-ins or the Type 3S2, 3S5, and 3S6 samplers.

The plug-in includes a permanently attached 1× probe with the sampling bridge enclosed in the probe. Optional 10× or 100× attenuator tips (010-0364-00, 010-0365-00) provide extended input voltage range; the optional VP-2 voltage pickoff converts it to a 50 Ω feed-through sampling head.

Key Specifications

Rise time	≤350 ps (×10, ≤400 ps; ×100, ≤500 ps)
Input impedance	100 kΩ // 2.3 pF (×10, 1 MΩ // 2 pF; ×100, 1 MΩ // 1.7 pF)
Maximum signal	2 V_p-p (×10, 20 V_p-p; ×100, 200 V_p-p)
Maximum safe input	max. ±100 V, max. sine input 20 V_p-p (×10 or ×100, max. ±350 V, max. sine input 200 V_p-p)
Features	no trigger pickoff for internal triggering offset voltage of either ±1 V or ±2 V (at ×1) can be selected via a toggle switch on the front panel

Links

Documents Referencing S-3

Document	Class	Title	Authors	Year	Links
Service Scope 53 Dec 1968.pdf	Article	Digital Systems Come Of Age	John Bowne	1968	3T5 • 3T6 • 3S5 • 3S6 • S-1 • S-2 • S-3 • S-4 • 568 • 230
Service scope dec 1968 ocr.pdf	Article	Digital Systems Come of Age	John Bowne	1968	3T5 • 3T6 • 3S5 • 3S6 • S-1 • S-2 • S-3 • S-4 • 568 • 230 • 240 • 241 • 250
Service Scope 52 Oct 1968.pdf	Article	The State of the Art in Sampling	Al Zimmerman	1968	S-1 • S-2 • S-3 • S-4 • S-50 • S-51 • 285 • 3S1 • 3S2 • 3S5 • 3S6 • 3T2 • 3T5 • 3T6 • 3T77A • 568 • 230

Differences between S-3 and S-3A

The S-3A sampling head has a 10× improvement in baseline shift due to cable flexing. All other specifications are identical to the ordinary S-3.

The major differences in design involves the strobe board in the box part of the probe eliminating the snap-off diode and adding a common mode choke in the S-3A , but some changes are also made to the circuits in the body of the probe.

Difference between the S-3 and the P6038

The S-3 probe contains a compensated attenuator before the sampling bridge. The P6038 does not. The S-3 probe has a JFET buffer between the holding cap and the probe cable. The P6038 does not. Both use the 152-0368-00 sampling bridge. The sampling pulse is generated by a snap-off diode (152-0368-00).

Repair of Sampling Diodes

Individuals have reported success in replacing the S-3 sampling diodes with Agilent matched pair Schottky diodes.

Pictures

S-3

S-3 probe sampling bridge
S-3 probe sampling bridge
S-3 schematic
010-0367-00 10X attenuator

S-3A

Front
S-3A probe
010-0364-00 ×10 attenuator for S-3A
S-3A probe internal
S-3A probe internal
S-3A strobe board
S-3A probe both sides
S-3A schematic
S-3A showing 280 ps risetime when probing a 50 Ω impedance with no probe attenuators.

S-3