Oscilloscope / Data-Acquisition Research

So, my trusty Tektronix 475 oscilloscope is dead.  

It powers up, the various mode switches toggle the corresponding lamps, etc. but there is no output on the display.  No amount of fiddling with the intensity/focus/beam-finder knobs will show any sort of trace on the screen.   Something in the internal signal path is dead.

While I am looking to see if it is repairable, I am also asking myself the various questions of how I could replace it. Here's my analysis so far...

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David Saturday 10 September 2011 at 10:44 pm | ΒΆ | David | No comments