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From: "Robert Fanfant"
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Subject: Re: New low bandwidth scope or used high band scope?
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Are the TEK TDS 220 series reliable?
-rob
"Jim Adney" wrote in message
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> On 27 Sep 2002 11:52:52 GMT Daniel Haude
> wrote:
>
> >I've had troubles with older (6 yrs) TEKs because they had a tendency to
> >break and were full of funny irreplaceable parts. Eventually we ditched
> >them and bought Hamegs (I know nothing about Hameg's high-freq
> >performance though. I need only up to 1MHz).
>
> You didn't go old enough. If you are willing to go back more than 15
> years you can get a very cheap Tek scope that will work forever and
> always be repairable. I think the family to watch for is the 464 465
> 465B 466 475 475A family. I'll leave out the 485 because it is more
> complicated than the others, but if you really need the 350MHz
> bandwidth it is a great scope.
>
> These will always be fixable because they were very well made so they
> seldom break, plus they made bunches of them thus creating a huge
> supply of parts scopes, then they have a minimum amount of proprietary
> electronic in them.
>
> -
> -----------------------------------------------
> Jim Adney jadney@vwtype3.org
> Madison, Wisconsin USA
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