17-05-2015, 10:26 PM
I saw this on ebay and wondered what the devil it was. I've browsed a lot of Tek Catalogues over the years and this didn't ring any bells at all. Fortunately the Manual is on BAMA - http://bama.edebris.com/manuals/tek/160/
This is what it looks like, if 'it' is the right term ...
... and this is the General Description from the manual.
It wasn't far away and I was determined it shouldn't go for peanuts to a scrapper for it's Valves. Anyway, I was intrigued. I got it for less than £1 a Valve which seemed reasonable and went and collected it. Fascinating bloke but that's another story.
So, what's it like? Well, it's pretty clean and tidy and most of the Controls turn although a few are stiff or stuck, but nothing that doesn't look recoverable. Power distribution is via Octal Sockets on the back and all the Signal Connections are on the Front. It really is Modular so the obvious place to start was the 160A PSU.
The perforated Cover is held with a Twist-lock at the back. It's the usual Tektronix Standard with a giant Transformer and Positive and Negative Regulators plus unregulated Outputs. You can never accuse Tektronix of being mean with Valves - there are 10. It was fitted with the usual horrible American Mains Connector for which fortunately I have a Cable. However, as often seems the case, the Earth looks burned so that had to go. Internally it all looked clean with nothing obviously suffering, so I fired it up. The Regulated Outputs set up OK and the unregulated ones were all high, but that's OK because they were all unloaded.
To be continued.
This is what it looks like, if 'it' is the right term ...
... and this is the General Description from the manual.
It wasn't far away and I was determined it shouldn't go for peanuts to a scrapper for it's Valves. Anyway, I was intrigued. I got it for less than £1 a Valve which seemed reasonable and went and collected it. Fascinating bloke but that's another story.
So, what's it like? Well, it's pretty clean and tidy and most of the Controls turn although a few are stiff or stuck, but nothing that doesn't look recoverable. Power distribution is via Octal Sockets on the back and all the Signal Connections are on the Front. It really is Modular so the obvious place to start was the 160A PSU.
The perforated Cover is held with a Twist-lock at the back. It's the usual Tektronix Standard with a giant Transformer and Positive and Negative Regulators plus unregulated Outputs. You can never accuse Tektronix of being mean with Valves - there are 10. It was fitted with the usual horrible American Mains Connector for which fortunately I have a Cable. However, as often seems the case, the Earth looks burned so that had to go. Internally it all looked clean with nothing obviously suffering, so I fired it up. The Regulated Outputs set up OK and the unregulated ones were all high, but that's OK because they were all unloaded.
To be continued.
