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Re: Focus adjustment on JDR 3500 o'scope

Subject: Re: Focus adjustment on JDR 3500 o'scope
From: "Juan Jimenez"
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 21:03:13 -0400
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.repair
Sounds reasonable. Thanks!

juan

"Arfa Daily" <arfa.daily@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> "Juan Jimenez" <flybd5@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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>> 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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