#Wavetek 195 manual pdf manuals
#Wavetek 195 manual pdf manual
#Wavetek 195 manual pdf portable

#Wavetek 195 manual pdf manual

It is not at all uncommon to spend more for the manual than I did for the piece of equipment. Some can be had for free, some can be had for a few bucks, and some can be had from retail manual dealers.

#Wavetek 195 manual pdf manuals

To paraphrase Yogi Berra, 'You can see a lot by looking.' But finding manuals is almost as much fun as finding the equipment. Not mandatory, and I've certainly fixed a lot of stuff without them mainly by visual inspection. For the most part, these are necessary in order to repair things. I've said nothing about operation and service manuals. I haven't gone back and reworked various descriptions. So often times I make comments, such as 'the best scope I own,' which may no longer be true. While the descriptions and repair notes are accurate, each reflects my state of mind and state of equipment at the time I wrote it. At the bottom of this page are some general comments on repair. As I collected more equipment, the repair descriptions became more and more verbose and described much of the repair journey. Those pieces that were received in some state of disrepair (something more than simple dirty switches/pots or misalignments) and were repaired by me have some brief repair notes in blue below their descriptions. A couple of pieces were literally picked out of the garbage can.

But that's the whole point, isn't it? The pieces that were not bought were usually given to me by friends and relatives. Sticking to this constraint means that the items are usually broken. My constraint is usually to pay no more than 2% of the latest catalog MSRP. Virtually all of the pieces were bought on eBay. But for my money (which it is), I am an HP connoisseur and simply can't bear to let one of their pieces perish if the price is right. Each major manufacturer had their own ways of doing things which often times were strikingly unique. Other major vendors include Tektronix, Fluke and Wavetek. HP equipment makes up the largest subset by far (> 150 pieces). Maybe even in the time it takes you to read this page. There are currently 447 pieces in my collection. Almost every piece in the collection that I received broken has been successfully repaired and restored to original specifications. But compared to most equipment made after 1990, for which 'repair' means 'board replacement,' these earlier pieces offer a fun and usually solvable challenge. On the other hand, they sometimes used custom ICs that are only very rarely now available. Manufacturers like HP and Tektronix usually prepared exquisite service manuals, something unheard of today. Most of the collection dates from what I consider to be the peak period in repairable semiconductor based test equipment, 1970 to 1990. This is my (ever changing) collection of old test equipment. Note: New/modified repair notes are not individually listed as latest additions since they occur too frequently to keep track of them all! WHAT'S NEW? LATEST ADDITIONS TO THIS WEBSITE: Now there are probably several hundred people that occasionally visit this website and I am sure that some do not like my style. But as I gave the address to a few friends and colleagues, it became clear that my audience was larger than just one, and they seemed to enjoy my commentary on the equipment. I wrote it in an irreverent style because I was the only one who was ever going to see it.

#Wavetek 195 manual pdf portable

This site was started many years ago as a simple portable way for me to keep track of my test equipment and the repairs I made. So if you got here, you probably are very good at hunting down test equipment information.

I do not go out of my way to publicize the URL, other than a few random posts on electronics forums over the years. Before we begin, let me say a few things about this website.