HP5532A for free
Hi guys,
I have a nice old Dixie tube HP5532A counter to give away that I picked up
at a local recycling store. It powers up, and I can coax it to count. It needs
a little cleaning, and some love. I figure someone collecting these would
have good use for it.
The first responder to this email will get it for only the shipping cost,
but in order to keep my effort reasonable, I need to ask for the following
please:
-
A US ship-to address
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A Fedex account number to ship against. I will package it and send it
against your account for free. Cannot do UPS, USPS etc unfortunately. Local
pickup is ok too. -
I don't know anything about the instrument, and don't have any manuals,
so cannot help
BTW: the warranty expired in 1967, so no chance getting Agilent to help :)
Let me know if you want it,
thanks,
Said
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On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:19:40 EDT, SAIDJACK@aol.com wrote:
Dixie tube
An old neon tube display for those South of the Mason-Dixon line?
(vs. Nixie tube for those North.)
Sorry, couldn't resist.
From: Rex rexa@sonic.net
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] HP5532A for free
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:33:18 -0700
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On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:19:40 EDT, SAIDJACK@aol.com wrote:
Dixie tube
An old neon tube display for those South of the Mason-Dixon line?
(vs. Nixie tube for those North.)
Sorry, couldn't resist.
I thought Dixie tube was a feature on the steam engine on one of those
Mississippi boats.
My old HP 523C does not have Nixie-tubes, such modern shit. No, it uses pure
neon lamps which light up a little display of 0-9. :)
I only have a 5-digit one, but there are others that had 6 digits.
I have the deluxe variant with a CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR. 100 kHz. Phantastron
dividers. The normal version has a Phantastron divider which you tune for a
divide by 5 or 6 depending on 50 or 60 Hz. That divider is set for 10 when
having the crystal oscillator assembly. As I recall it, the Phantastron uses up
a penthode and diode, but since double-diode tubes is used the tube count isn't
that high.
The fun thing is that IT STILL WORKS! Maybe not as high in frequency as it is
supposed to (it seems to garble things up at 120 kHz but it should handle 220
kHz or so since it has the high speed (!) counters in it. It has a thad lower
singel shot resolution compared to the 5370B and Wavecrests.
I scored a Marconi Nixie counter while dumpster-diving. Also works but it had
some minor issue as I recall it.
Last friday I tune up a friends 5243L and succsesfully counted 490 MHz with the
module. It has a large oven which was out of tune, but it was easy enought to
tune it up. He also has the 3 GHz and 12.4 GHz modules that is only supposed to
go into the 5245L, as the counter needs slightly more than 50 MHz counting
range and the 5243L is limited to a little more than 30 MHZ.
Cheers,
Magnus
There are frequent 5326's out there cheaper than shipping.
Steve
Magnus Danielson magnus@rubidium.dyndns.org wrote:
From: Rex
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] HP5532A for free
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:33:18 -0700
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On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:19:40 EDT, SAIDJACK@aol.com wrote:
Dixie tube
An old neon tube display for those South of the Mason-Dixon line?
(vs. Nixie tube for those North.)
Sorry, couldn't resist.
I thought Dixie tube was a feature on the steam engine on one of those
Mississippi boats.
My old HP 523C does not have Nixie-tubes, such modern shit. No, it uses pure
neon lamps which light up a little display of 0-9. :)
I only have a 5-digit one, but there are others that had 6 digits.
I have the deluxe variant with a CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR. 100 kHz. Phantastron
dividers. The normal version has a Phantastron divider which you tune for a
divide by 5 or 6 depending on 50 or 60 Hz. That divider is set for 10 when
having the crystal oscillator assembly. As I recall it, the Phantastron uses up
a penthode and diode, but since double-diode tubes is used the tube count isn't
that high.
The fun thing is that IT STILL WORKS! Maybe not as high in frequency as it is
supposed to (it seems to garble things up at 120 kHz but it should handle 220
kHz or so since it has the high speed (!) counters in it. It has a thad lower
singel shot resolution compared to the 5370B and Wavecrests.
I scored a Marconi Nixie counter while dumpster-diving. Also works but it had
some minor issue as I recall it.
Last friday I tune up a friends 5243L and succsesfully counted 490 MHz with the
module. It has a large oven which was out of tune, but it was easy enought to
tune it up. He also has the 3 GHz and 12.4 GHz modules that is only supposed to
go into the 5245L, as the counter needs slightly more than 50 MHz counting
range and the 5243L is limited to a little more than 30 MHZ.
Cheers,
Magnus
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