Yes, it's an excellent 'scope, and most of the pot's are sealed so all you have
to do to get the noise out is work them back and forth a few times. Since
you're geting such a good deal on this thing, do take the time, trouble, and
expense to get the correct probes to go with it, and get three of them. You'll
not regret it.
IIRC, the probe that was shipped with mine when it was new was the TEK P6105's.
It's a 10x 13pf 100 MHz probe with adjustment for compensation. You'll want one
for each channel plus one for the delayed time base or for external triggering.
Aside from the nicety of having a spare or not having to change between
connections, an additional one doesn't really help life much. Trust me on that,
as I have half a dozen of various lengths. Unless you work on rack-mounted
equipment much, probes longer than 2 meters are probably unnecessary, but only
you can decide that. Shorter probes may prove a handicap.
The probes from this set have a number of attachments, and accessories. If you
work on hardware that uses wire-wrapped components, there are probe tips that
are intended for attachment to wirewrap pins that you'll find very useful. I
curse the day I discovered these, because of how helpless I feel whenever I
don't have them if I'm working on wirewrapped equipment. I've numbered them
with cable markers and find them indispensible, since I can put a dozen or more
of them in a circuit and the move the probe tips from labelled point to point.
There'll be other things you discover along the way as well.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Linder" <dlinder_at_uiuc.edu>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2001 11:44 AM
Subject: Tek 465 as a hobby scope?
> I found a Tektronix 465 o-scope today for $50 - it's missing probes, and
> the owner was going to look for the manual, but I'm wondering if this
> would be a good scope for hobby purposes?
>
> The previous owner feels that it probably needs a good cleaning, like some
> of the knobs.
>
> Any insights?
>
> - Dan
>
>
> Dan Linder / dlinder _at_ uiuc.edu
> Graduate Student, College of Engineering, Dept. of Computer Science
> - Dept. of Computer Science Teaching Assistant
> - DRES Computer Accessibility Researcher
>
>
Received on Sun Aug 26 2001 - 13:52:05 BST