Welcome Randy! Yes, you can just swap the RS-232 card, it's easy. As for 'scopes, well we have an old dual trace one at the shop, I doubt it is faster than 40 megs and seems to do just fine if it is thumped correctly. My tech never uses the thing. He uses a logic probe and the Fluke for fixing most of his boards. The memory test, BUS test and ROM test grab about 90% of the problems, and it is a bit of scouting to get the remaining problems... Radio Shack had a good book on service theory, or SAMS Photofacs(?) publishes a few that are great for beginners. I've been beating games up since the 70's and I'm self taught...no courses in game repair back then. John :-3)# At 08:34 PM 08/02/2002 -0500, Randy Bissett wrote:
Greetings all; ... To compound matters, I picked up a second Fluke 9010A base unit off of ebay. And herein lies my first question. The Ebay one has a digit going out, it flickers, gets real dim, then comes back. The plus side is that it has a RS232 port on it, my original one does not. Can I easily swap the RS232 to my original unit? I havent taken the cover off to see if its just a card or if its hardwired in.
Second question concerns Oscilliscopes. First of I know I need one, How do I know? I have been told I do :). I do know I can display the output of Vector games on one that has XY inputs on it. What other uses for it, I am very vague on, but am willing to learn. The problem I am running into is knowing which units have XY inputs and which ones dont. I have been mainly looking at Ebay auctions & while they list alot of features, only one scope have I found so far has actually listed XY inputs ( a TEK 465M). Is there some other name this feature goes by that I am unaware of?
Kev has been very patient & helpful, but I dont want to wear out my welcome in his inbox :) So I bring my questions here & hope my lack of knowledge is not to embarrassing apparent. I have picked up a few books & my Fluke came with a 4 cd set instruction set that I have just begun. ANY help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for your time Randy
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