MetCal Procedure for MDO3024

[PMEL-73]

Hi all,
Does anybody have a MetCal procedure for a Tektronix MDO3024 or similar scope?  Know anybody that sells one?  Thanks in advance.
Russ

[Hawaii596]

Check with Michael Schwartz of Cal Lab Solutions.  This is not a paid promo.  I looked at MetCal GOLD and didn't find any MDO series procedures.  Michael does not have that model listed on his website, but he does have some of the MDO4000 series.  If anyone can do it, Michael I believe could.  I would ask him about it.  Maybe PM him here or send him an email.  If he doesn't specifically have it, I think he could develop it.

[CalLabSolutions]

I just finished up the Tektronix MDO3000 Series Mixed Domain Oscilloscopes all because of this site and the people who contribute to it.  This was a pretty big project, 4 Channel 1 GHz Oscilloscope, 3 GHz Spectrum Analyzer, Arbitrary / Function Generator and DMM all wrapped up into one instrument.  (13 Pages of calibration data)
So, I just wanted to give a big shout out to all the people who read this site and support metrology in general.  And especially to the Admin who put this site together and has kept it up for so many years.
Mike.

[RFCAL]

I hope everyone is aware of the dismall in cal percentage of the MDO after 1 year. We have seen above 50% failures for the RF Section-Pwr Level Accy. We send them back to Tek for warranty repair and they run a software adjustment. They will not give up the adjustment software, so I wonder what happens after the 3 year warranty period is up.Does Cal Lab Solutions have an adjust procedure?

[CalLabSolutions]

Don't have an adjustment procedure yet.. The two units I tested the software with really looked good.  But I was a little miffed that the *OPT? didn't return all the options like the manual said it would.  I had to find some alternative commands to get all the installed options.  (Seems Tek is not the mater of all things oscilloscope like before.)

It's good to know the failure rate maybe a little high on these instruments. I hope someday soon there is a database with this kind of information in it we call all ponder over..

Mike

The two models I tested the RF Sections looked really good

[Smokey]

We just got done building a procedure for the MDO4104B-6 only to have to send it back to TEK for adjustment due to failing the RF Level Cal. This was a brand new unit from the factory. Sad to say but TEK is no longer the O'scope king!

[griff61]

We just got done building a procedure for the MDO4104B-6 only to have to send it back to TEK for adjustment due to failing the RF Level Cal. This was a brand new unit from the factory. Sad to say but TEK is no longer the O'scope king!

Certainly not the quality king anymore.
Is it just me or does every manufacturer Danaher swallows up take a nose dive? Seems like they all head towards the Wavetek level of quality and dependability.

[Hawaii596]

I remember sitting in a meeting with the president of LeCroy, around I think 2003 or so.  I was working for Motorola at the time.  He commented that sometime a little while before that, some of the engineers at Tektronix had jumped ship and gone from Tektronix to LeCroy.  Seems like that was around when LeCroy's game ticked up a few notches.  Old LeCroy stuff, not so great.  Newer LeCroy stuff, quite a bit better (though a little complicated at times).