Perspectives of a Canadian in the Old/Deep/New/Geographic South: This is where I ramble on about nothing in particular and post a few nice pictures.
Things I do for fun
The inputs for the oscilloscope are regular BNC connectors, but the ground connector is one I’m not familiar with. It looks kind of banana plug-ish, but longer than what I’d normally expect for a banana plug.
Here’s the ground connector on the scope
There’s also this BNC adapter for some other kind of plug. Looks kind of like a phono connector.
I was able to find a manual and service manual for the scope, which will come in handy.
Next step will be to plug it in and see how things are.
The inside of the signal generator looks in pretty good shape, almost like it was assembled yesterday. Plugged it in, turned it on and was rewarded with a soft orange glow from the two vacuum tubes inside.
There’s one very large electrolytic cap that’s marked 20 MFD which according to the schematic appears to be a 20 μF cap. It has two positive leads going into it and I’m not entirely sure I’d be able to find an exact replacement for it. Probably need to sub in 2 20 μF caps if it does need to be replaced.
The guy at http://www.heathkit.nu/ replaced the two signal outputs on his IG-102 with BNC connectors, which seems like a pretty good idea and something I think I’ll try to do as well. Otherwise I’d probably have a hard time finding leads with the original style connectors to use. I’ll need to find some panel mount BNC connectors (female) and might need to snip/replace some capacitors to replace the old connectors.
My latest acquisitions: A Hitachi V-1060 oscilloscope and Heathkit IG 102 signal generator (thrown in with the scope).
I haven’t had a chance to power up either of them, although I’m told the scope turns on and has a stable trace. Calibration is unknown and could probably use degaussing. Seems to be in pretty decent condition, although some new test leads are in order.
The signal generator is more unknown. Outside it looks pretty decent and all the knobs are in decent working order. Probably needs a new lead/probe. It’s pretty lightweight. Will be interesting to see what’s inside before I try to power it up.
My new vanity call sign showed up in the FCC ULS database this morning!
Just in time for BarcampCHS.
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EtherProg from Jason/NT7S assembled. Didn’t take too long. I think I’m getting better at this. I’ve also figured out how to keep the tip of my soldering iron clean, which, as it turns out, really makes soldering a whole lot easier.
Now to figure out what to do with it.
I need to find conical tips for my soldering iron or else get another one with easier to find tips. The new tips I ordered for my Radio Shack soldering iron are all chisel tip, which will probably be too big for SMT work.