Look Inside This Rare Tektronix TU-50 Test Unit!
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- čas přidán 5. 07. 2024
- Let's look inside this Tektronix type 50 TU test unit and see what we need to do to make it work again. Click the SHOW MORE tab below for links.
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Mr Carlson have you ever considered streaming live your restoration work as you do it? I personally would really enjoy watching you solder everything in.
Hey mr. Carlson.
Kind of a question here.
first of all what type of connector is on the panel and the cable for the attenuator Box?
And also the connector on the so-called special power cable.
Show me the woman on the power cable loose looks like a reverse schuko plug lumos were some sort of Euro plug but in reverse?
At least a quick glance of it on the video.
Also have you ever heard of someone using a voltage regulator tube as a night light.
Once I found a place that was wired for that there was a like a voltage doubler a few other components in a junction box with a tube socket on the front of the cover plate.
And there were tag strips riveted to the junction box cover.
Unseen box cover like that with tuba relay sockets for other purposes but not that
I went to someone's old house evidently to go in at live there or built it probably both what's a tech genius.
There's all sorts of weird sockets and stuff you would have loved it.
And I also saw something in a closet they weren't quite sure what it was.
Big insulator and A rod on it.
And various weird things on the wall and such some things I can't even describe.
And when they first when we was going on I said don't touch any of the sockets or anything.
I said to them so I can think that it might be tube type of equipment which means possible high voltage.
Turns out a couple cases I was right.
You should have seen the basement an addict in other places as well.
But the way that thing with the rod later determined that was a radio transmitter.
Also a lot of stuff is Tiny and everything else it seemed like a really old motivation system.
I found other devices with antennas but not transmitters receivers.
And relays everywhere.
Also this house had the 50s 60s wiring with the remote control switching with relays which is also tied into the system.
You could have imagined any type of connector it would be there.
So which I've never seen even to this day elsewhere.
And not the only place like that I've seen But amazing
Also once it was working again was just meant restoring power to part of it.
Of course disconnecting certain things that would probably not be a good idea.
One thing some transmitters because they operate it on the amateur radio band.
And I'll words whoever designed it was possibly licensed it's possible but that frequency was not allocated at that time don't know can't remember what frequency it was.
And it appeared that that was also part of alarm system for the house
So diy film capacitors DON'T die?
Also try saying that 10 times fast.
@@aaronbrandenburg2441 Photos would be welcome.
Thanks for the video.
I really love the look of the two wood floor radio, you had in this video.
What are the makes and models.
Mr Carlson's Lab channel has the best audio.
You know you want to fire that up in the dark while it's open! VERY nicely designed!
In my 50 years of working in electronics I've used and seen all of the equipment Mr. Carlson explains. I worked in a Calibrations lab at the RCA David Sarnoff Research Center, Princeton, NJ. Our group repaired and calibrated all the equipment engineers used on a daily basis. These days I hang out in my basement Lab restoring vintage Radios, record players and test equipment. I also enjoy bread boarding circuitry. My latest project completed was a tube tester. I build much of my own equipment. I do envy Mr. Carlson' collection. Electronic vacuum tubes are my favorite item to experiment with. I trade at Ebay.
All these extra videos are really helping with self isolation. We all appreciate it.
I am so glad to see you use a spanner to undo the nut. Most people use a pair of pliers. I give you 10/10 for this.
HOLY MOTHER OF GLASS TUBES AND CERAMICS!! You could leave that back door open and skip the tanning salon.... for two years. Very cool presentation Mr C
The inside looks like a worlds fair exhibit. Gorgeous piece of work.
Mr. Carlson, Do you have a biographic video? If not, I know many other subscribers would be very interested in your background. How do you know so much about electronics that were built before you were born? Is your family an engineering or scientific family? What was your education and who did you work for? Are you still employed in the electronics world? Love your Channel!
And yes, I am willing to answer those same questions 👌 not sure anyone would care...
Would love to hear your story, Paul!
I’d love to hear a full background as well. How did you become the Wizard of Electronics?
I think is short and simple. Born with a soldering iron in hand, cut of belly cord with side cutters, got down to his workshop and that's it.
I would love to hear your background. Our backgrounds are our makeup, they determine who we are and why each of us are different but the same if you know what I mean.
Thanks Mr Carlson for all you do. I really love your videos. Watching and doing is the way I have learned most everything I know.
I started work as an engineer in 1983 at GE in Utica, NY. I recall the extremely nice Tek scopes we had, and the plug-ins. But I was a digital guy, so I used logic analyzers and simulators a lot of the time. This piece is built like the space shuttle. Gorgeous!
I'm not electric engineer. But I love to see whats inside.
Is relaxing, somehow.
Me too, and this machine was so well built inside it's amazing.
You don't have to be an electronic engineer to recognize when quality equipment is explained by a master in his art.
The layout inside this is a treat to look at. It's beautiful.
And the attention to detail, such as all resistors installed in the same direction. Classy.
It is which is surprising, as if its job was only in their factory, it didn't have to please a customer.
@@boredfartless4221 engineers usually take a lot of pride in their work and have an aesthetic sense going into their designs ;)
I worked in calibration labs in the Canadian Airforce, and in a private standards lab when I retired, I’m amazed that something as exotic as Test Equipment is on CZcams, I enjoy your channel.
Tek scopes used to come with a reel of silver solder inside.
Silver bearing solder. It is only 3% silver.
Tektronics equipments of this era was so beautiful and well made.
Man this apartment is crowded ... But not unorganized.
Great collection !
Tektronix built their equipment like tanks. Excellent quality. Looking forward to the alignment on this unit!
Professor Carlson, your videos are excellent works of teaching and instruction.
Love these short overviews you've been doing. Looking forward to the restorations even more. You're one of exactly 3 CZcams hosts I turned on notifications for; I'll be watching. Thanks!
As a keen pet owner with a Golden Labrador, I was initially disappointed to find a CZcams search brought up your channel. However, having arrived for canine labs, I stayed for your brilliant electronics. So glad I found you. Dee, UK.
I could look @ the inside of that thing all day Paul. TFS, G :)
Thanks Mr Carlson!! 5 new videos over the last month, this will get me through the lockdown.
Holy Cow, you have moved a bunch of equipment around or you did some filling up the shelves and tons gear! I love it. Everything to do with Tektronix is so special to me. Thanks for sharing with us.
Nice to see the rows of silver soldered components. We used to wash out scopes out (disconnecting transformers removing tubes etc) with a commercial cleaning system and low level oven!!! Put back together and worked like a champ!!!
I was in the US Army signal corps depot maintenance . We did all the repair and calibration of electronics gear. It was good duty while stationed in Germany . The passing of time there was more like having a cool job than being just a soldier in the Infantry. In civilian life I went to RCA Institute , NYC and studied electronics, so my the time I was drafted I was working at NBC Ch. 4. My civilian experience landed me straight into the signal Corps in Red Bank and Fort Monmouth.
During my youth in the 70's in Frankfurt and later on I had the impression most of the American soldiers quite enjoyed their time in Germany. Germans liked the Americans as well. Anyway, the center tube in the hanging array seems to have a bad getter.
Love those orange stacked selenium rectifiers.
Loved the shortwave radios in the lab. My father recently died, and i just finished restoring his 1937 Philco 37-650. I think dad would be proud....
Very beautiful inside! I normally don't like point-to-point construction as seen in radios, because of the mess, but this instrument is neatly made and organized.
I spent nine years calibrating test equipment mostly o-scoped and plug-ins PMEL in USAF
Hey Herb, I work as a service repair technician at Tektronix in Beaverton Oregon. If you are looking for work, we have two openings in the Scope Repair Cell and would love PMEL training in our group. My team lead is a PMEL wiz and the knowledge is indispensible.
This reminds me about metrology 101 calibrate the calibrator where did he get the next level certs.
@@rootvalue Interesting that you worked at PMEL in the USAF. I was a contractor working for the USAF out in the Nellis NTTR before I retired a couple of years ago. I brought our test equipment to PMEL for our shop, and talked to a guy there about it as I did some test equipment repairs in my earlier career.
Just what I need to align my Tektronix 310A oscilloscope! She opens like a tube caddy suitcase. No selenium rectifiers in it. 12 silicon diodes. Has a mere 30 tubes
in it however. I love how the engineers designed the layout of everything inside so very nicely in the TU-50. Thanks for sharing Paul!
TU-50? It is broadcast amplifier?
fantastic video, thank you. More of this please...your knowledge is so big
I don’t know much about electronics- but it doesn’t matter, I love these vids. I always tell myself that I’m only gonna watch a few minutes....and here I am hours later. Fascinating.
For anyone trying to decide on whether a Patreon subscription is worth it, YES, it's worth it! For the minimum $5 per month you get access to many more detailed videos and Mr. Carlson has shared some awesome designs, schematics, parts lists, etc for some really cool test equipment that you can make for yourself. Definitely worth the $$$. I am working on watching all of the videos, taking notes, making parts lists, and getting my electronics bench setup. (Yes, it takes a while. Some items are pricey, so I'm learning while I'm wading through the videos and getting the needed equipment) Also, since the Covid crap has happened, some parts are difficult or harder to get, especially if they are from overseas, so I can still study while waiting for things to get back to normal. Thanks, Mr. Carlson, your videos are very interesting and entertaining at the same time. (No, I don't know Mr. Carlson and he didn't ask me to do this. I'm telling ya, IT'S WORTH IT!) Best regards.
Hey Mr Carlson, do you mind enabling auto-generated captions for this video?
If you disabled the accessibility feature by accident, sometimes it can be resolved by setting the video language in Settings to English.
Thanks for your help for those of us that need it! ❤️
I tested it now, and it works fine. Does it work for you now as well?
There is just something about pre-IC Tektronix gear. Absolutely beautiful.
I recall being shown a Tektronix-produced film in the late sixties in my high school "radio shop". It described their oscilloscope designs and how they increased their reliability and stability by incorporating their ceramic strips plated with silver for their interconnects.
Tektronix scopes were well-known for their very stable triggering capability as you know. They were the standard for the era.
I worked for one of their competitors and we always lamented how well Tek scopes triggered.
That giant rack of tubes in the time-mark generator is implementing a frequency divider chain. A giant, power hungry pain with tubes; one tiny IC today.
Ya... but that's no fun. Glass is where it's at!
I wish I could be a student of Mr Carlson , and work in his shop to help and learn. this fascinates me big time. I have been an auto tech all my life and like doing the electronic diagnoses on cars, and pretty good at it.When I saw this guy's videos it really sparked me. this is great stuff. love it. wish i started at a young age in this field. Thanks for the joy you have giving me.----Pete---
Wow! Every angle of the inside of that thing is a wallpaper photo! Amazing device. Thanks, mr C!
Thank you for captions, my friend!
I like the shorter format, it's easier for me to watch.
Absolutely love this format.
What a beauty...I'm so in love with this tube gears ! Thanks again Paul to share this with all of us !
Just wanted to say I love your channel... I've always been interested in electronics. But the vintage stuff I really like! Thank you!!!
Absolutely beautiful! This was from a time when true craftsmen built things like this. They just don't build things with pride anymore... pretty sad... Thanks for the video!
I really am enjoying these take a look video's Mr Carlson, thank you! Oh my when you opened the back, that's such a beauty.
Wow the layout of that is amazing!
Your into is so consistent sometimes I almost want to A-B it to see if I can detect differences. Thanks for taking time to share.
So clean and organised design inside, beautiful instrument!
This guy is going to align the alingner in a future video. Standby for fun!
Calibrate the calibrator!
(I always enooy saying that ...)
This takes me back to the mid 70’s when I worked in a cal lab Tektronix and Hewlett Packard were the only scopes that exceeded there specs .All other manufacturers you had to squint and look the other way when checking rise time and bandwidth
Thanks for keeping us entertained!!
I am just in awe with the engineering, care and quality that goes into equipment like this. It's straight out of NASA - that incredible level. Fantastic. Thanks for sharing, Paul!
'wow ' This is beautiful just look at the layout of all the components so uniform and so neat, This reminds me of the inside of my 2011 mac pro
Incredibly clean for something that old that is fan cooled.
*Bravo!* Look forward to the repair and alignment of this device.
I would like to see you restore this beauty soon btw I got you on Patreon I just love how much detail you put in to these videos
Every time i come across one of you video's Max Headroom pops into my head.
You are a greate teacher and inspiration for all of us here... Thanks you!!!
I remember in the AFN TV branch in Berlin, there was also such a Tank to make maintenence....thanks to Mr. Carlson, this is a sort of Technical Art.
WOW!!! Very awesome!
Paul, I have a couple of genuine questions. 1) Where do you "score" your vintage test equipment?? 2) Just how many oscilloscopes you you current own? That is a VERY IMPRESSIVE collection.
You are AWESOME!
Patrick
P.S. I have always been very impressed by how organized and clean your lab/work areas are. This is the ONLY way I can work. An organized/clean/well kept work area, to me, directly reflects the intelligence , knowledge and integrity of the man. You are TOP NOTCH!
Thank You very much for your kind comment Patrick! I will talk about sources "and such" in a future video.
Amazing lab. Love the old gear you have around in your lab. Patiently waiting for more videos. Greetings from Thor in Norway.
Those toggle switches are so satisfying to listen to.
Was sitting here in a truckstop in Indianapolis when the bell rang for this video...btw you are one of only a few that i follow closely as well as Peter (trx) though i havent seen anything from him in some time and hope he is well and Buddy at the radio shop...cant wait to get off the road and start your course but where are coming up with some of these pieces???
Stay safe with all the covid19 panic and dont worry...im out here moving the toilet paper for all!!!
Hope to hear you on the bands sometime
Jeff de WD8JM
Keep up the awesome job
Spokane, Washington could use some TP
Praise The Lord for truckers! Thanks, Jeff! I was a trucker for 13 years. I am disabled now. I grew up with four younger sisters, so, stockpiling my own TP is a habit that is engrained into my psyche. LOL!
As a former driver the truck drivers are among our nations hero's. Stay safe and stay well. God bless our truckers and God bless America.
WD8JM DE W4GSM--- good for you and a big HI from Va. you also be safe and we thank you for your work. 73 from Dave.
You sir are a hero thank you for your keeping us all alive God bless you man and thank you again for keeping America running stay safe out there brother.
The quality build of that device! Hope you and your family are doing well.
lol think we just found why there's a shortage of certain tubes :) Love how incredibly informative you are Mr. C. keep up your awesome vids
Hello from the Chicago area! Thank you for your channel it's really getting me through this whole quarantine stuff.
You are so welcome!
Thanks, Paul! That was a real treat!
You're very welcome Robert!
Man, your videos are like eye candy. They look and sound great and of course are very educational.
Great looking device, Paul! I need to build one of those capacitor testers. Hope you're doing well and everyone in your household is healthy.
Checking alignment with a unit that may need alignment. Interesting conundrum that should be fun to watch and learn. Stay safe!
You have some fascinating and beautiful pieces of equipment there. Oscilloscopes are particularly wonderful looking things, I really liked the small one with the 2" screen you showed in a different video. I didn't know that CRTs were ever so small.
What a beautiful piece of equipment, and so well assembled. I bet I dos'nt need much (if any) callibrating.
I´m almost speechless about *the looks* of the inside of this device. It´s like Jony Ive found a DeLorean and transported himself back to the 60´s.
This is not the inside of an electronic device, it´s more like a cathedral. Apple Computers would have looked like that in the 60´s ( with an acrylic backplate in bondi-blue ).
Awesome, totally awesome.
Piece of art on the inside!
The Plastic Good-All's are usually "All Good" in the Conn gear I've fixed. It makes me happy when I see them because I usually have less work!
When your camera panned to your 500 series scopes could not fail to see the Jackson signal generator in the center of shelf. Have the same as well as a old oscilloscope by them
Thanks for your videos! 😊
I hope my insides are that beautiful when Im that old. Nice looking gear!
I have a tek 531a and a 564. Would be very cool to calibrate them on that very cool machine. Thank you for the great videos! Stay safe
Good evening, professor Carlson!!!
+50 years back in U.K. electronic laboratories it was a customary (indeed sacrosanct) quirky practice to always have an authentic American silver "dime" coin loose in the top flap or trolley draw of Tektronix 500 series scopes for removing the access panels (and also a small coil of silver-loaded solder somewhere inside). This would be a nice thing to add perhaps ?
Wow beautiful construction
This must have cost a pretty penny when new!
Loving this format!
Watching you is amazing experience ☺
Wicked internal layout , cant wait to see the pressed collectors in the ceramic holders.
I love these old Tek-gear, they're absolutely crazy well built. This unit inside kinda looks
like a miniature scale model of a power plant or a wierd doll house. =)
I have a 5-series oscilloscope myself, manuals and all, which unfortunately does not
work today. History is that it came from the maintenance department of a nuclear power
plant just 60km's from where I live. I will hopefully get it to work one of these days.
The caps are probably the culprit as it has not been used in quite some time.
What a piece of quality equipment, I love it. Sitting here in lock down at you tube the previous review I saw was a Crosley turntable, based on that I would conclude we are digressing as man kind.
Unlike the engineers who designed my last car, Its pretty clear whoever designed this thing must have talked with people who also service it as everything looks really accessible where such is possible.
Looking forward to the next episode...thanks!
The sleeve bearings on the fans of that era of tek instruments have open oiling ports that would often be way over filled. Over years of operation a thick film of oily dust would accumulate on parts near the fan.
Nice timing, I have a 190B constant amplitude signal generator sitting in the shop.
Excited for the new videos!
"This tester is so sensitive it will read leakage from this vinyl boot."
Yes, that is sensitive. :)
Actually, vinyl (PVC) is quite miserable, leaking like there is no other day! I have an experience where we had to remove our first installed vinyl cable and replace it with polyethylene type. All for the reason that our intended use as an extender cable for a paper insulated telephone cables test station caused our meter to immediately peg. The test station was attached to a big temperature chamber and was to tell when the cable reel was dry and ready for extruded lead jacket. That was way back when. I doubt anybody makes paper insulated cable today.
Excellent as expected
Love the Tek stuff. Most of our lab is slightly later period, multiple 7000 series, and TM500/5000 era accessory instruments, though we do have a few tube based scopes and tracers. Your aligner is really something.. Tek is so perfect inside... Many of the guys that engineered all this are passed away. I knew several of them, growing up teen years in the back yard of Tek in Beaverton. .... they had true pride in doing the best possible job. I still have a few bags of the ceramic strips, reserved for pet projects.
Thanks for sharing your story Jennifer!
I love my 7704A! It's such a thrill to be able to swap out the modules to do all kinds of neat measurements. I love the 7D15 I have that just happily sits in the left horizontal slot and gives me various timing, counting and frequency readouts without interfering with any other measurements. I lucked into the 7704A with a 7A12 and 7B53A free on craigslist!
Work of art.
From what I can see, the "repair," or "restoration" of this piece of equipment, should not take very long. Probably just some re-calibration necessary, as these things sometimes drift with age.
Thanks for all the informative videos, especially in this time of self imprisonment, as I like to call it. You help to make boring times much better!
Looks like Tektronix adapted a series 5 case, I bought a 545B (UK) series in 1993 very heavy and bulky and wife not to impressed :):) I often watch your 555 video and would love to see you calibrate a 5 series scope. Wonderful engineering and quality just like we see on this channel.
I hope you're doing well Mr. Carlson ☺️ I love your videos!