Electronic test equipment bench test gear for sale. Please note that items here are free and may not be the quality of purchased items. Equipment such as oscilloscopes, tube testers checkers, audio af signal sine wave generators, vtvms, triplett 630pl. Vacuum tube testers if youre working with any kind of vacuum tube assembly, then youll need to have a tube tester on hand to make sure that all of your valves are working properly. Tube testers are the major topic of alan douglas new book. Different types of testers are compared, and testers from 23 different manufacturers are tabulated and pictured. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. We now have a new crossreference section with hp nixie tubes and. Tube tester 6000 equipment hickok electrical instrument co cleveland, oh, build 19571962, 9 pictures, united states of america, schematics, tubes.
It begins with an extensive discussion of tube testing and use of tube testers, and progresses into curve tracing. Your tubes ordering info return policy our test lab visit our ebay store contact us links. This emission test circuit was an industrystandard and was popular enough to be used by many different topshelf manufacturers including triplett, eico, heathkit, knight, and small variations of the. The tone lizard website is down but if you take the url and plug it into the wayback machine you can see it. The classic emission tube tester is a solid choice for several reasons. I have some vintage vacuum tube testers for sale, and are listed here on this page. Tubes should be tested in everything from vintage radios to contemporary guitar amplifiers, and its easy to put all of your valves through a tube checker. But, he covers other types of test equipment as well.
This condensed catalog covers hickok test equipment produced in 1939. But it comes down to features, functionality, accuracy, repeatability and price. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Electronic circuits and tubes, cruft laboratory at harvard university, 1947, 994 pages courtesy of jim mcconville. Alan, thanks for writing, both the tube tester book and the set of radio manufacturers of the twenties. Tube testers and classic electronic test gear book. As a result, most tube testers will test one plate section stronger than the other, leading the modern user to a false conclusion that the tube is unbalanced. Welcome to friendly what are you looking for book tube testers and classic electronic test gear. Zte electronics is also looking for product testers to test their electronics.
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Imagine being able to test tubes, from the oldest antiques to the latest sweep tubes, without having to set any switches or dials imagine being able to print mutual characteristic curves for your audio tubes so quickly and easily that its possible to actually do so. If you test a tube when the unit has been on for 10 minutes and test the same tube 2 hours later, your results will probably be significantly different. Most require a component change rather than make a simple adjustment. My old school testers all have been completely gone over and updated with new components and are calibrated. Tube testers and classic electronic test gear alan douglas on free shipping on qualifying offers. The most important thing theyre good for is testing for shorted tubes and a rough indication of deadness if thats a word. Tube testers and classic electronic test gear pdf part i tube testers. Tube testers and classic electronic test gear alan douglas on. So i will provide a little insite into these two topics. Pdf tube testers and classic electronic test gear free.
I am lucky to live close to the best tube tester repair guy on the planet roger kennedy in torrance ca. A friend of mine, who is not an electronics guy, saw me reading it. People who are searching for free downloads of books and free pdf copies. This is some rather important news in the world of tube testers. Tube testers and classic electronic test gear book by sonoran publishing pdf best of all, they are entirely free to find, use and download, so there is no cost or stress at all. Hickok electrical instrument company, tube testers and radio test. Save this book to read tube testers and classic electronic test gear book by sonoran publishing pdf ebook at our online library.
Can the tester do the line of tubes you plan on testing, tube sockets, operating voltages, test data available. I believe this began as a book about old tube testers though there are very few that arent old, and the classic electronic test gear got tacked on to pad it out. I am not a writer so give me a break on my communications style and long windedness. The paperback of the tube testers and classic electronic test gear by alan s. But would like to have seen current selling prices for the items shown. The circuit is easytouse, easytomaintain, and easytooperate. I used it a bunch to test a lot of tubes, and it did the job for me. Supreme instruments tube testers and portable radio analyzers besides testing tubes, many of the tube testers and radio analyzers below also contain basic multimeters for measuring acdc volts, resistance, and capacitance and allowed for free point testing. If youre working with any kind of vacuum tube assembly, then youll need to have a tube tester on hand to make sure that all of your valves are working properly. Entitled tube testers and classic electronic test gear, it is available from antique electronic supply. Most vintage tube testers were not designed to test for balanced plate sections. Weve all seen the classic gec amp schematics, but heres the whole book. Tube testers evolved along with the vacuum tube to satisfy the demands of the time, and their evolution ended with the tube era.
Anyone who has a sizeable investment in vacuum tubes or vacuum tube hifi equipment owes it to themselves to have a good tube tester on hand to periodically check the tubes they are using. You can read all your books for as long as a month for free and will get the latest books notifications. Eico was established in new york city in 1945 by radio repair business owner harry ashley to manufacture electronic test equipment in kit form. Classic rf generator for general radio audio stereo repair. Test equipment tube testers, voms, signal generators, signal tracers and other test equipment may be found here. They work well, and are more accurate now then when i first. A tube tester is an electronic instrument designed to test certain characteristics of vacuum tubes thermionic valves. You can read online tube testers and classic electronic test gear here in pdf, epub, mobi or docx formats.
He started laughing, and said, who needs tube testers now. His first product, advertised in the july 1946 radio news, was the model 1 vtvmaudible signal tracer. Includes all kinds of crossreference links and downloads to make selection simpler. Tube testers and classic electronic test gear alan. All tube testers are test equipment and will require maintenance and calibration from time to time. It is as close to a reference guide as we will probably ever get, with an entire chapter devoted to tube curve tracers. Testing a quantity of different tubes required a great deal of setup time. Television if it has a tv screen in it or is related to tv youll find it listed here. Click read now pdf download, get it for free, register 100% easily. The first tube testers were simple units designed for specific tubes to be used in the battlefields of world war i by radio operators, so they. Buy tube testers and classic electronic test gear by douglas, alan isbn.
Alan douglas provides an overview of pre1970 vaccum tube era radio test equipment. Alan douglas has written the only book about tube testers in the last 35 years. Tube testers and classic electronic test gear, forum info or question sticky to the book. Tubes should be tested in everything from vintage radios to contemporary guitar amplifiers, and it s easy to put all of your valves through a tube checker. The first half is tube testers and the second half is everything else. Also alan douglas book classic tube testers and test gear. Both classic and modern fluke items, plus equipment from the flukephillips era. I have been asked to increase the definition of my videos, but so far have not been able to, sorry. Alan douglas is the author of tube testers and classic electronic test gear 3.
Free antique radio schematics, manuals, and schematics for. The site is in german but the manual is in english. Anything from boat anchors to vintage transistorized equipment. Vacuum tubes, electron tubes, tubes, tube testers and. In this 2020 updated post you will discover 33 free sites. In the heyday of tube testers, most testers were designed to be portable and economical for the service man and home user. But while easier to use, a tester like that still wouldnt be terribly helpful for pro audio work, where the minutia as you put it matters so much.
This overlooked adjustment, is not always a simple procedure on most tube checkers. Includes ecopy pdf download attachment of the eico 950 manual. Second hand electronic test equipment gear meters testers. Tube testers and classic electronic test gear by alan s.
The book contains a total of 166 pages, and part i, with just over 100 pages, is devoted to tube testers. There are a few other mentions of it, the tales from the lounge website, if it ever comes back up, has a page devoted to it. Do you want to get paid to test electronics for free and keep them forever. Tube testers and classic electronic test gear by alan douglas. Tube tester 6000 equipment hickok electrical instrument co. The old drug store tube testers avoided many of the controls that bench testers need by including lots and lots of sockets, set up for different tubes. Communications and related items ham gear, cb, marine, etc. Up next a practical guide to tube testers and tube. Tube lists 00 3v4 465 6az8 6b4 6dz7 6e5 6kz8 6l6 6zy5. Tube testers and classic electronic test gear antique radio. There is nothing simple about a good vacuum tube tester. Informative book on tube testers and classic test gear. In fact, most tube testers were very complicated to set up for each different type of tube to be tested. The best tube tester is the electronic equipment in.
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