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Old 9th Jan 2021, 1:22 pm   #1
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Default Hameg 205-3 broken!

This morning, whilst I was grappling with an Italian FM generator (and that's a story in itself), my trusty, owned-from-new, thirty year old Hameg 205-3 'scope failed! Suddenly, no timebase at all, and swinging the X-pos control from end to end moves the spot very, very slightly from side to side. I suppose it's a power rail or something of the sort. Fortunately, Rhode & Schwarz offer the manual for free download, but still...
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Old 9th Jan 2021, 4:20 pm   #2
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Murphy........ again.
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Old 11th Jan 2021, 8:36 pm   #3
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Well, it looks like that was a simple one. The manual sensibly suggests a careful internal inspection and re-seating of connectors. Nothing obviously wrong, but I did re-seat a thick ribbon which looked a little loose. Turned on with meter at the ready, and was greeted by normal operation! Turns out that ribbon carries the drive to the deflector plates...
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Old 11th Jan 2021, 11:38 pm   #4
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Default Re: Hameg 205-3 broken!

Pleased it was a relative easy fix as I've always thought that reliability is one of the great strengths of Hameg analogue 'scopes. I've been using my 203-5 today which, touch wood, hasn't missed a beat since I bought it a few years ago.

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Old 12th Jan 2021, 8:13 am   #5
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I've certainly used mine - all that's really wrong with it is a that a couple of BNC sockets are slightly loose and the coupler for the timebase trim pot has the usual fractured hub - I'll replace that with a metal coupler in due course. Not at all bad for somethimg I bought around Christmas 1990...
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