Re: Mark V current draw
Posted: Sat May 30, 2015 9:59 pm
Hey, I might have once owned that very same scope.charlese wrote:Holey Cow, Buckeye! I now know (- ahem - can look up)- more information about start up amps, power, circuit breakers etc. that I ever thought about before.
The last ocilloscope I used was in the Army back in 1954. Only green screens. Color is nifty.
When I was in high school in the 70's, a ham-operator friend gave me an old military-surplus scope. It was about the size of a large ice chest, and you could unscrew modules on the front panel that slid out like drawers, chock full of vacuum tubes. It weighed maybe eighty pounds, and must have cost a small fortune. Premium construction throughout. I seem to recall using it to look at the lovely waveforms of Karen Carpenter's voice on my basement eight-track system (salvaged from a wrecked car), but I don't think I ever did anything actually useful with it.
