[vcf-midatlantic] Semi-OT: Old Test Equipment

[Dave McGuire]

On 11/03/2015 11:05 PM, Systems Glitch via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
> Fired up my GenRad 1217-B Pulse Generator, which is mostly tubes (I
> think there's transistors in there somewhere, haven't had it apart in
> a long time), and set the pulse width to 1 mS:
> 
> http://imgur.com/X1KwZ8e
> 
> Automeasure on the Tek 2432A says 1.04 mS, not bad! Especially since
> 1 mS is the range select, and the actual width is set with a vernier
> dial!

  Very cool.

> Unfortunately it's probably worth more for the tubes than as a
> pulse generator, nowadays.

  Nonsense.  Those look like pulses to me.  And have you priced good
pulse generators lately?

            -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA