Category Archives: Hardware

Waterblock sanding

Posted on April 13, 2020 by A. Cicuta

Materials: grit 800 wet sanding paper water elbow grease time Before After A.C.

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Solartron 7150 added to the stack

Posted on December 17, 2019 by A. Cicuta

Now the trio of my 5.5 digits or better DMMs is working and logging which means I am out of IEEE 488 cables which means I ordered two more as there is a lot of my equipment that is really asking … Continue reading →

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HP 3456A & HP 3457A

Posted on December 11, 2019 by A. Cicuta

I am not dead yet, just very tired. This photo is just to show that something is happening on the DMM side of things. As soon as possible, I want to write about linux-gpib, DMM and logging. A.C.

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HP 5300A/5302A

Posted on November 21, 2019 by A. Cicuta

This basic counter came with a lot of equipment I purchased some time ago. I didn’t need another counter but I wasn’t going to complain of getting another piece of test equipment. Anyway, when I turned it on it didn’t … Continue reading →

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HP/Compaq 2510p: changed DC power connector

Posted on March 10, 2019 by A. Cicuta

I rather like my HP/Compaq 2510p so I have been really displeased when the laptop suddendly powered off even if it was attached to its power supply. The fact that I recently bought a new battery for it only added … Continue reading →

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HP 6634A repair (blown filter capacitor) part 2

Posted on September 17, 2018 by A. Cicuta

I finally remembered to order the three capacitors I needed for this repair in my last order and so I went ahead and did the repair. To reach the main board I didn’t exactly follow the service manual: after opening … Continue reading →

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HP 6634A repair (blown filter capacitor) part 1

Posted on June 24, 2018 by A. Cicuta

I was hoping to write a post about the calibration of my HP 6634A as the output voltage was a bit higher than what it should have been but as you can guess from the title that didn’t happen. Anyway, … Continue reading →

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HP 5345A “repair”

Posted on February 4, 2018 by A. Cicuta

As I wrote here I added this counter to my collection. However it didn’t work right and I was rather sure that I wouldn’t have time to fix it anytime soon. I was wrong. Yesterday I took a pause from what … Continue reading →

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HP t5540 again: netinstall of Debian on a SSD

Posted on December 10, 2017 by A. Cicuta

I already talked about this thin client Everything worked fine but the case was a bit hotter than I would have liked with a SATA HD crammed inside. So I decided to buy a SSD to play a bit. The … Continue reading →

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Vonets VAP11G

Posted on November 26, 2017 by A. Cicuta

I am a fan of wired ethernet connections. This may or may not have to do with my interest in ancient/obsolete/old workstations and their operating systems. You can forget to use a wifi connection with your old Sun Ultra 1 but … Continue reading →

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