{"id":23,"date":"2011-01-06T23:25:33","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T03:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.correctivephrenology.com\/blog\/?p=23"},"modified":"2011-01-06T23:25:58","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T03:25:58","slug":"fantastic-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.correctivephrenology.com\/blog\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"Fantastic find"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s ebay treasure is an HP 5370B Time Interval Counter. It was listed as &#8216;Won&#8217;t Power Up&#8217;. A careful look at the pictures showed intact Agilent calibration stickers over the top and bottom panel access screws and the possible shadow of the power selector being set to 220.<\/p>\n<p>So I took a risk, set a bid in esnipe, and actually won it for $154. Working, these go for anywhere from $300 to $800, new they were about $23k, so I was pretty excited.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it arrived today. I hurriedly took it from it&#8217;s box brought it up to the lab, and started checking it out. Sure enough, the power was set for 220, and the calibration stickers were quite intact. I flipped the power to 115V, plugged it in and it fired right up.<\/p>\n<p>Plugging it into my GPS disciplined Oscillator \/ Frequency Standard and once it warmed up, it shows itself to be about 0.12hz off at 10Mhz. One part in 100,000,000. Not bad! Some tuneup ought to be able to be able to correct that by at least another order of magnitude, if not 2. First I need to make sure the standard is that good!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastbobs.com\/bob\/pictures\/scopes\/5370.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"5370 Time Interval Counter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastbobs.com\/bob\/pictures\/scopes\/5370.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s ebay treasure is an HP 5370B Time Interval Counter. It was listed as &#8216;Won&#8217;t Power Up&#8217;. A careful look at the pictures showed intact Agilent calibration stickers over the top and bottom panel access screws and the possible shadow of the power selector being set to 220. So I took a risk, set a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.correctivephrenology.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.correctivephrenology.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.correctivephrenology.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.correctivephrenology.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.correctivephrenology.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.correctivephrenology.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25,"href":"http:\/\/www.correctivephrenology.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.correctivephrenology.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.correctivephrenology.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.correctivephrenology.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}