TDS 500B, 600B and TDS 700A Service Manual
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Maintenance
This section contains the information needed to do periodic and corrective
maintenance on the TDS 500B, 600B and 700A Digitizing Oscilloscopes. The
following subsections are included:
H Preparation — Introduction plus general information on preventing damage
to internal modules when doing maintenance.
H Inspection and Cleaning — Information and procedures for inspecting the
oscilloscope and cleaning its external and internal modules.
H Removal and Installation Procedures — Procedures for the removal of
defective modules and replacement of new or repaired modules. Also
included is a procedure for disassembly of the oscilloscope for cleaning.
H Troubleshooting — Information for isolating and troubleshooting failed
modules. Included are instructions for operating the oscilloscope’s internal
diagnostic routines and troubleshooting trees. Most of the trees make use of
these internal diagnostic routines to speed fault isolation to a module.
Related Maintenance Procedures
The following sections contain information and procedures related to mainte-
nance.
H Section 2, Operating Information, covers instructions useful when operating
the oscilloscope in order to troubleshoot it. It also details the service strategy
and lists options for obtaining maintenance service and for replacing failed
modules.
H Section 3, Theory of Operation, contains a circuit description at the module,
or block, level.
H Section 4, Performance Verification, contains procedures that may be useful
in isolating problems to modules by testing oscilloscope performance.
H Section 5, Adjustment Procedures, addresses after repair adjustment and the
interval between periodic adjustments. It contains a procedure for adjusting
the internal circuits of the oscilloscope.
H Section 9, Diagrams, contains a block diagram using individual modules as
blocks and an interconnection diagram showing connections between the
modules.
H Section 10, Mechanical Parts List, lists all field replaceable modules by part
number.