I found this in Surplus and want to know if I can use this to Generate Signals for Testing purposes with pics and or Scope, generally what can I do with it.
I'm guessing from all the other equipment that was in the same vicinity, old Network Analyzers that it was used in conjunction to diagnose Networks.
I found this in Surplus and want to know if I can use this to Generate Signals for Testing purposes with pics and or Scope, generally what can I do with it.
I'm guessing from all the other equipment that was in the same vicinity, old Network Analyzers that it was used in conjunction to diagnose Networks.
However the lowest frequency it will generate is 3Mhz (according to the link from camerart), so it may be a bit high in frequency for what you want.
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Just read a bit more about this sweeper, the frequency range depends on the plug-in unit at the right hand side of the chassis. Without looking at that it is impossible to know the frequency range.
Wow, been a long time. You can find the manual here. You have the mainframe unit, does it have a plug in installed? In their day they were a heck of a unit. The swept spectrum depends on the installed plug in unit. During my microwave days we used them to sweep attenuators for calibration checks.
Those units were the gold standard of their day. The large 50 pin connector is a HPIB (Hewlette Packard Interface Bus) which allowed connection to a computer. The manual I linked to covers the HP Basic commands that were used. The manual also covers the pin out of the connector. Just before I retired we trashed dozens of those old HP cables and adapters. Years ago I gave away a detector kit that was used with those units. If you come across an old graphics plotter (paper) the sweep out is 0 to 10 VDC as I recall. Hell with the plug in that is installed you have yourself a pretty cool signal generator.
That's what I was after, I thought it would be fun to do experimental circuits on the audio and maybe Plasma Speaker would be fun to look at on my O-Scope and such. But, from what Jim is saying and dr pepper it may not offer that for me? I think I might be able to get it for for around $10. Because nobody knows what it is and the Network IT guys don't need it anymore.
Providing that is what this thing does; help Analyze Networks.
It certainly looks cool and I thought maybe, but now I don't know? I'm sure you, Jim and dr pepper would have some fun with it though.
Its worth more than 10$, just because it can go to microwave freq's.
I did have some ideas on modulating a royer circuit, something along the lines of halting oscillation at zero cross, the circuit sort of allready does this with 2 diodes, if you time it right you can stop the oscillation at zero cross, and modulate the length of time its stopped for, with a high switching freq you'll be able to produce audio modulation, I think, its a bit early in the morning here to think that hard.
KV, somewhere around here I have an old HP 200 CD audio oscillator. These things were beast in that they gave good output power. Let me look around and if I have it and you want it it's yours for the asking. The old HP 200 series used vacuum tubes and a wein bridge oscillator circuit for very good low distortion 20 - 20 KHz audio frequencies out. This thing would drive the ringer on the old telephones. I know it has to be here somewhere. Odds are I never use it as I haven't used it in 20 years. This is what they are.
The center image is a TS 510 Sig Gen. Gawd, this is like a trip down memory lane for me. The TS 510 was made under government contract by several manufacturers, they were a very good sig gen. The TS 510 support manuals can be found here in pdf formats.