Hitachi V665 scope offer for beginner - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / beginners

author: KTP
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 12, 2012, 02:36:52 pm
content: Hi guys. While cleaning up a bit and taking a break from smt soldering, I uncovered a forgotten Hitachi V665 oscilloscope (60 mhz, 2 channel analog with digital readouts/measurements). This is a decent made-in-japan scope that I think could be quite good for a motivated but poor beginner. I dusted it off and made a few measurements and was quite suprised how crisp the display still is. In the photo channel 1 is just connected to the built in probe calibration hook and channel 2 is a sine wave (but is traveling a bit so looks fuzzy in the photo but in reality is as sharp as channel 1...lazy me). This scope has the original probes and operator manual, pretty small and light for an analog model.So...if there is someone in true need (not some one post wonder registered today who will just stick this on craigslist tommorow) I will offer this great starter scope for the low low price of free (you pay shipping) I think this would only be good for people in USA and Canada because of high cost of international shipping. I am located in WA state if you prefer pickup. I would like to see it go to a beginner who is fascinated by this field but just doesn't have the funds right now to afford a scope.The older, wiser guys on here can chime in on the fitness of this scope for beginners, but I think it should have a good home. It even has gnd as an input coupling option, which should make Dave very happy.Here are the pics:

author: tramjoe
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: July 12, 2012, 03:25:29 pm
content: Hey, I would have been lining up for this offer just a few weeks ago, but now that I bled myself to get an owon SDS scope that wouldn't be fair to others :-) So I thought I would just chime in to say how great of you this is ! Hope that baby finds a great home

author: mariush
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 12, 2012, 03:27:53 pm
content: Would you please check how much it would cost to mail it to Romania where I live? That is if I'd qualify for this offer...I'd love to have a scope, was checking the Rigol 50 Mhz in Dave's videos one but at 300 euro it's a bit above my budget and I'm not very fond of ordering such expensive items off eBay.If the shipping will be about 100$, that's something I could afford.

author: KTP
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 12, 2012, 03:39:28 pm
content: Quote from: mariush on July 12, 2012, 03:27:53 pmCertainly. I have seen you post before, and would love for you to provide this scope with a good home. I bet shipping is going to be expensive though...maybe if we did some sort of parcel post. This is one case where for customs it really IS a gift (I bet they never believe that). You can PM me the city, or I can just pretend I am shipping it to Bucharest on the USPS and UPS sites.

author: KTP
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 12, 2012, 03:59:33 pm
content: Ok, USPS for 20 pound package (I overestimated weight and size because I don't know how much the extra protection of bubblewrap would add) is about $120 for Express Mail International 3 to 5 day delivery. I used Bucharest for the delivery address.For UPS I had to use Bubesti 517042 (no idea where that is, it just worked for Romania) and got the low low price of $644 US for their worldwide expidited rate and $782 for their saver rate. Someone needs to give UPS a dictionary so they can look up "saver".So, unless others can chime in on a cheaper way, it looks like United States Postal Service express mail is the cheapest shipping to Romania. It might be a tad less than $120 US if the final weight and dimensions are smaller.Edit: It looks like Priority mail international (6 to 10 days) might be even a bit cheaper...around $94. At least this is sort of getting under your $100 limit.

author: mariush
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 12, 2012, 04:50:11 pm
content: Yes, it's reasonable shipping costs, certainly around what I expected.At this moment, I'm leaning towards waiting a bit to see if you get other forum members interested that are closer to you. I'd like to have it but it would be a shame to be broken during shipping from so far away.If I don't see other people interested and I don't change my mind, I'll ask you through a private message for the Paypal address to send you the money for shipping. Thanks again.

author: KTP
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 12, 2012, 05:09:33 pm
content: Quote from: mariush on July 12, 2012, 04:50:11 pmSure thing. It isn't worth $94 if it arrives in 20 pieces, this is true. We will see what others say, thanks.

author: codeboy2k
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 12, 2012, 08:48:33 pm
content: I am one of the older guys, but I don't own any scope. my only tool is a handheld DMM, and a power supply. When I need a scope I often build it up from an FPGA kit I have here with a 500Ms/s ADC front end I built long ago. It's not a professional scope, but it works for me as long as I am careful not to fry it. I've used scopes, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers, bus analyzers, etc, at the past companies that I've worked for, and my father (an EE) had several at home that I used when I was younger, but I've never, ever had one at home for myself. I would love to own one to be able to do some more projects that I've wanted to get started on but felt held-back due to lack of tools. I'm not an EE, but I am self-trained since age 12, with years of experience already.I'm in Vancouver, Canada, just a few hours away from you. I am 48 and retired from work now, so please consider me less needy than, say a young student just getting started. I would love to see your generosity go to a student just learning electronics, and that it can help that person along in their career as it did help me to have access to these tools when I was younger.and... I actually prefer the clean, crisp display of the CRT scopes over the jaggy digital scopes, but the deep memory of the digital scopes does have it's advantages. I really love the CRT scopes with deep memory and capture ability. Think HP made some of these mixed mode CRT scopes early on.

author: KTP
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 12, 2012, 09:27:41 pm
content: I make no age discrimination and only a little discrimination on you Vancouver Canadians. You juiced me during the winter olympics!I did have in mind more of a person starting off, but then again...geez, you have to build your scope when you need one...and this thing has been sitting in my closet 8+ years...criminal.If mariush decides he does not want to risk the high shipping and damage, I am ok with you giving it a good home.

author: M. András
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 12, 2012, 09:29:01 pm
content: I would be intrested for the scope too. looks like you preserved another decent piece of an era which is long gone now, where they built things to last. i cant really play with switchmodes without a scope, unfortunatly i wont have the budget for a digital 1-200mhz one for atleast 1 year, agilent x3k series and the rigol 4k series cost a decent amount of money, others even more, i could get some old anagol scope in a local shop but most of them are replaced school etc units with unkown condition for a price as a chinese dso, im not in hurry or strong need for it, as some EE students with zero budget for gears, so dont count me as priority. i live in Hungary, Budapestedit: i dont see any switches for 1:1 and 10:1 probes, or it senses it automatically or simply you have to count the attenuation in when you read the display?

author: grumpydoc
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 12, 2012, 09:51:20 pm
content: QuoteYou can set the probe attenuation to either x1 or x10 by holding the selector switch down (or maybe up) and turning the selector left or right (one way for x1, the other for x10).I restored one of these a while ago together with a 1065 which is one of this one's 100MHz cousins - I thought they were very nice analogue 'scopes easy to work with and easy to work on as well. They also use almost no custom parts though they have a quad-in-line CPU which would be difficult to get hold of these days even without a mask ROM (I don't recall a separate ROM or EPROM but could be wrong about that).Service manual with schematics on my web sitehere.I sold the 665, still have the 1065 - probably will sell it but it's such a nice 'scope that I'm mildly reluctant to let it go.

author: codeboy2k
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 12, 2012, 11:05:52 pm
content: maybe hold a drawing for anyone interested, then it's fair

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 12, 2012, 11:11:03 pm
content: Awesome scope for beginners.Have tweeted it.Dave.

author: KTP
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 13, 2012, 12:31:08 am
content: Quote from: codeboy2k on July 12, 2012, 11:05:52 pmNah, I don't want to play games with people...that gets feelings hurt. I just wanted it to go to a good home. Mariush wants it and I think we can pack it well enough to Romania (have never shipped anything to Romania, will be interesting).I will keep you in mind since you are close if I decide not to ebay the Tek 2465A 350mhz 4 channel scope codeboy2k. They are for some reason not fetching much on ebay and I may not want the hassle of dealing with a buyer. I will need to get my MSOX in hand first though and check some auction results before committing to anything on the Tek.

author: codeboy2k
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 13, 2012, 02:54:53 am
content: Quote from: KTP on July 13, 2012, 12:31:08 amoh, definitely. as a non-beginner I am more likely to make better use of the 4-ch wider bandwidth scope anyways, as my first scopeyeah, keep me up to date.Cheers

author: alexwhittemore
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 13, 2012, 06:53:42 pm
content: Thanks for giving this away! My first scope was a Tek 2221a given to me by a professor with not enough time to bother fixing one or two tiny issues with it. It's been totally invaluable to me.