A hard to resist problem

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Oh yeah I do have the tube. I took it out so I didn't break it
 
Since you're fairly new to electronics, FYI I think KISS probably means the + and - inputs of the op-amps, not their power supply pins!
 
I'm lost. Cowboybob has been ranting about his tiny scope.

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No money has been payed luckily and they opted to not be able to be contacted.
 
Don't worry it will help us to find out what is wrong. Your first port of call is to check all the supply lines. It is quite common for the reservoir capacitors to fail. That can take out the rectifiers. If there are any LEDs used for biasing, check those too. The potentiometers are low quality and tend to wear out too.
 
spec: nice find

What you really need now is a constant signal source. e.g. 1 Khz.

You can use your meter in relative mode (db) to help isolate the stage.

The difference of the inverting and non-inverting inputs of the OP amps is a place to start. Measured in normal mode and fail mode.
Surely you can do that. Without looking at the schematic, let's say the difference should be close to zero.
 
It's not hard to build an un-calibrated 'scope if you feel like the challenge. There was a very good book from Babini "how to build your own solid state oscilloscope". In the '80's I built it, worked well, very out of date now, (getting out of date even then) the tube must be antique! But the principle stands all the same. I built a very crude digital one too, with a 10 x 10 led matrix display, all hand soldered out of square 5mm LED's. It used a clock/counter as the timebase and some kind of bargraph controller (I think I designed my own because I didn't realise bargraph chips existed!) as the vertical control. Worked ok but not very usable.
If you can source the materials, building a simple 'scope is an educational project in lots of ways, and you end up with a useful piece of equipment at the end of it.
 
I'm intrigued Justin - what 'scope did you order? I don't see a model mentioned earlier in the thread?
You could check out alibaba and banggood too.
 
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