AH#12 - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: JohnS_AZ
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 15, 2010, 04:51:14 pm
content: Hey Chris ...Where the heck are the pictures of the guts of your scope?

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 15, 2010, 05:12:00 pm
content: why the new topic ?

author: Time
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 15, 2010, 06:48:25 pm
content: A CCD is a charge-coupled device, not a charge-capture device. Chris said the latter at one point.Just an fyi

author: JohnS_AZ
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 15, 2010, 06:52:13 pm
content: QuoteBecause there wasn't one for AmpHour #12.

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 15, 2010, 06:54:49 pm
content: oh right see it now, i'd clicked on the new posts since you last visit so never took note of the forum section. yea Chris show the pici's

author: ChrisGammell
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 19, 2010, 03:11:35 am
content: Hey John,Great point! I was meaning to actually post those on my blog soon. Gotta keep them coming in somehow, eh?I'll be sure to post a link here when I do.Chris

author: ChrisGammell
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 19, 2010, 04:22:19 am
content: Here you go John, just for you:http://chrisgammell.com/2010/10/19/they-dont-make-em-like-they-used-to/

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 19, 2010, 05:35:43 am
content: chris, why did you post 5+MB images, wow that took some waiting

author: ChrisGammell
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 19, 2010, 12:48:57 pm
content: Shoot, thought those resized automatically (they do through the WP interface but I didn't use it). I'll fix it. Sorry!

author: JohnS_AZ
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 19, 2010, 03:24:45 pm
content: Cool pix Chris! Thanks.Niggly point ... are you sure it's a Tek 485? Your first picture of the panel seems identical to my 475A, and I googled pictures of 485s, and they don't quite match. *shrug*

author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 19, 2010, 04:25:09 pm
content: My guess would be 465M, since he mentioned it was the ruggized version of the popular model on the show, and I believe it was somewhat modular. If I remember correctly, it's not actually related to the 465 (the 465M name was for marketing reasons), but based on the 455.

author: JohnS_AZ
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 19, 2010, 04:42:39 pm
content: I've never needed to take mine apart so I have no idea if it's modular or not.

author: ChrisGammell
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 19, 2010, 07:04:08 pm
content: Wow, I wasn't even close (nor did I look, sorry!). It was the 425M.

author: DJPhil
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 19, 2010, 11:11:27 pm
content: Much love for the 465M. If I remember right it was designed to be dust proof so it's totally sealed and has no fan (unlike the 465). They don't suffer for it either (think military temp range), but they're not often well taken care of on the outside. Still, it's nice to see pictures of a scope's guts without a fleck of dust on it after thirty years! I'm not sure if the 425M would be the same, but those pictures make me think so as everything is nice and clean.

author: ChrisGammell
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 19, 2010, 11:16:05 pm
content: You aren't kidding, mil-spec ain't nothing to mess with.