Well,
My name is Mark and I am suffer with Test Equipment Acquisition Syndrome (TEAS).
It starts quite mildly but soon creeps up on you; symptoms are said include:
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I've fiddled about with it and given it a good clean, replaced some caps and transistors in the PSU and also a (socketed - thanks Tek) IC regulator and bingo:
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My name is Mark and I am suffer with Test Equipment Acquisition Syndrome (TEAS).
It starts quite mildly but soon creeps up on you; symptoms are said include:
- Buy some broken test gear cheap
- Buy service manuals for the broken test gear (often costing more than the gear)
- Troubleshoot broken test gear
- Seek obsolete components to repair the broken test gear
- Buy more test gear to help with the repair of the test gear you are working on
- Build shelving and storage for test gear
- Buy second and third same items as "spares" and find they are better condition than that you already have
- Go to 1 and repeat
You get the idea.
There is help available here, but the condition is quite hopeless.
My latest acquisition is a Tek 466"storage" scope.
Its in very good condition for its age and notably has "LEDs" instead of "indicator lamps" so is a more recent one of these models:
I've fiddled about with it and given it a good clean, replaced some caps and transistors in the PSU and also a (socketed - thanks Tek) IC regulator and bingo:
There seems to be very little wrong with this. Now all I need is another for spares....
Miss Luna cat is become slightly less timid, but not much:
