4 Jul
2006
4 Jul
'06
5:02 p.m.
On Tuesday 04 July 2006 04:29 pm, der Mouse wrote:
I don't know. It doesn't look much like mil-surplus to my eye, but I
suppose it coukld be.
I think in my case it's the battleship gray paint and the little metal plate
with various ID numbers on it that probably gives it away. :-)
I gather from later stuff that you wrote that it's probably somewhat bigger
than mine is too. Mine also has a handle on the top. And some bits on the
bottom to wind the cord around.
And the most unusual AC plug I've ever seen, it was three-prong but you could
pivot the third prong out of the way if you wanted to use a 2-prong outlet...
I tried to disable all forms of sweep, so as to get just a stationary
spot. (This has worked in the past with that 'scope.)
Ok.
Turns out that's not it, anyway, as you have probably seen from later
messages - the X position knob does in fact work just fine.
Yeah. Good luck with that transformer situation.
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M Dakin
Back in the late '70s and early '80s, I used a
particular
oscilloscope, a "TYPE 304 H" "CATHODE-RAY OSCILLOGRAPH" from
"ALLEN
B. DUMONT LABORATORIES, INC., PASSAIC, N.J., U.S.A." (all quotes
come from the front panel markings).
I'm not sure if the one I have is the same unit or not, but I have
one in storage that's of this make. Apparently military surplus? My unit has a
cover that fits over the front, and in which probes
etc. can be stored. Does this sound like what you have?
No. My unit has no cover, and, while that might not mean much in
itself, it also does not have any apparent way for a cover to attach. [...]
Seems to me that another thing that you might consider is whether or
not there's any sweep being triggered. Since the X position knob does nothing, I speculate
that that pot
has gone bad and is, in terms of the circuit it controls, always
hard over against one margin. Does this sound plausible?
Not really.