ven. 20 avril 2018

HP8662A Synthetized Signal Generator - Part 3

This is the part 3 on my series about my HP 8662A Signal Generator, and is about the third main problems I found with this unit, as evocated in part 2: Error 04 is lit and there are some very unpleasant spectrums at some frequencies.

Low Fequency Section

If the …

jeu. 12 avril 2018

HP8662A Synthetized Signal Generator - Part 2

This is the part 2 on my series about my HP 8662A Signal Generator. After fixing the PSU, several more problems needed to be addressed:

  • a few sloppy keys on the keypad,
  • the know did not work at all,
  • and more importantly, some very unpleasant spectrums at some frequencies (covered …

sam. 24 mars 2018

HP8662A Synthetized Signal Generator - Part 1

I recently pulled an HP 8662A I bought a while ago from my cellar. I don't remember exactly in what condition it was advertized when I purchased it, but it was most probably advertized as non working (otherwise it would have been cheap enough, more, what the fun in buying …