[time-nuts] Chinese Scopes

[Azelio Boriani]

Right. I'll try to do the same: locating a 54717 to rent.

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 8:52 PM, <SAIDJACK at aol.com> wrote:

> Haven't run into that battery problem.. but rented the 51717 from an Ebay
> offerer for low $$ in the past.
>
> I simply sent him an email saying, "I see you are selling that unit in your
>  ebay store, can I rent it from you for a week"?
>
> And he did..
>
> I did have a power supply go bad, and simply bought an 83480A digital comm
> analyzer for about $200 on Ebay, that has the same exact platform, and one
> can  re-use the parts on the 54720D (power, monitor, etc etc).
>
> That entire unit came cheaper by margin than trying to buy just the  power
> supply itself.
>
> bye,
> Said
>
>
> In a message dated 4/17/2012 03:38:41 Pacific Daylight Time,
> azelio.boriani at screen.it writes:
>
> Good,  the HP54720. We have one but, unfortunately, lost the calibration
> (backup  battery dead). Now it need the HP51717 to complete the
> calibration.
> So be  warned not to let the backup battery go flat: replace it trying to
> supply,  with a diode, the NVRAM.
>
>
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