Society of Robots - Robot Forum

Electronics => Electronics => Topic started by: blackbeard on November 15, 2009, 03:20:07 PM

Title: need help from the older folks out there
Post by: blackbeard on November 15, 2009, 03:20:07 PM

so i've dug up my old function generator which i still have no idea how to use. when i say old i mean OLD as it's from the 1950s and uses vacuum tubes. the model is Ts-413C/U which from what i've read is a 1953-1954 US air force signal generator. it's in good condition and turns on well enough so i'd be willing to put it to work if i knew how to use it  i'm likely going to order a few tubes online for it in any case. so anyone know how to use it? here's a pic

[img=http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/3944/dscn7202s.th.jpg] (http://img4.imageshack.us/i/dscn7202s.jpg/)

Title: Re: need help from the older folks out there
Post by: Soeren on November 15, 2009, 04:55:11 PM

Hi,

Too bad the pic is so blurred, but are you sure it's a function generator?
It looks like a "measuring transmitter" (for lack of the correct English term) which is used to generate (whatever)HF+modulation for aligning receivers etc.

Title: Re: need help from the older folks out there
Post by: blackbeard on November 15, 2009, 05:20:45 PM

ok here's a better pic of one just like mine

http://photos.edebris.com/catalog/browse/4184/1/1/50/220271782d20010434252243f85be38d (http://photos.edebris.com/catalog/browse/4184/1/1/50/220271782d20010434252243f85be38d)

it says it's a signal genorator but from what i can tell it's limited to 1vac