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Re: Focus adjustment on JDR 3500 o'scope

Subject: Re: Focus adjustment on JDR 3500 o'scope
From: "Arfa Daily"
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 21:54:41 GMT
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.repair
"Juan Jimenez" <flybd5@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
news:451bec7e$0$19619$88260bb3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi folks,
>
> Does anyone have a calibration/maint manual for a JDR Instruments model 
> 3500 o'scope? I bought it cheap for my son ($100), he is building his own 
> analog synth, and it works great, but the focus control no longer brings 
> the trace into focus when I turn it all the way to the right. I need to 
> adjust this but I don't have a manual.
>
> Detailed instructions will do as well.
>
> bd5 at
> bd5 dot com
>
> Thanks!
>
>

If it's not a problem with the tube itself, then likely one of the high 
value resistors in the chain which divides down the PDA voltage to the right 
level for the focus grid ( via the focus control ) will have gone high in 
value. In the absence of a set of schematics for it, I would follow the 
connections from either end of the focus control ( especially the clockwise 
end which is probably the higher voltage end ) back to wherever they go, and 
look for some big-ish high value resistors right there, and carefully check 
their values. If you find one that has changed substantially in value, make 
sure that you use a resistor with a high voltage specification to replace it 
with ( many readily available resistors are only rated for operation up to a 
couple of hundred volts )

Arfa



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