Looking for opinions on TEK 2337

[John Crighton]

Hello All,
I am looking for opinions and comments from the group
on the Tek 2337 oscilloscope. I have seen a couple
for sale recently and was just wondering if there were
any major bad points to look out for.
The drop down lid put me off and so I did not pay too
much attention in the past but now I am reconsidering.

Any fancy ICs and vital parts no longer available?
Is it difficult to repair? Overly complex? Extremely
compact inside? That sort of thing.
I couldn't find out anything at the Tek site on the 2337.
Any idea on how old the 2337 might be?

I am not keen on the drop down lid with the digital
voltmeter and the B trace triggering controls in the lid.
It looks odd to me.
Does the flexible cable give much trouble?

From what I have read on these groups an early
model 465 was recommended for hobbyists with
some repair skills as there were few Tek made
special ICs in that model. That is the model I have
been looking out for but no luck yet. Maybe the 2337
is OK. I look forward to your replies.

Regards,
John Crighton
Sydney

 

[Tracy Nelson]

John Crighton wrote:

From what I have read on these groups an early
model 465 was recommended for hobbyists with
some repair skills as there were few Tek made
special ICs in that model. That is the model I have
been looking out for but no luck yet. Maybe the 2337
is OK. I look forward to your replies.

Depending on what kind of hobbies you have, you might want to look at
one of the older Tek scopes. The 547 is a pretty readily-available
machine, has 50MHz bandwidth (I've heard it can be pushed to ~75MHz with
the appropriate plug-ins), and is easy to repair (no custom ICs). The
465s are nice, too, and I've heard nothing but good things about the
454As. I have a 547, a 647 and a couple of 310As, and I find that for
most of my work, the 547 is more than adequate.

If you're really serious, you might want to check out the TekScopes
group at groups.yahoo.com. Lots of expertise there, and a lot of people
interested in the 2000-series scopes.

Cheers!
-- Tracy Nelson

 

[Jim Yanik]

Tracy Nelson <tnelson158@attbi.com> wrote in
news:n70cb.418079$cF.128654@rwcrnsc53:

John Crighton wrote:
From what I have read on these groups an early
model 465 was recommended for hobbyists with
some repair skills as there were few Tek made
special ICs in that model. That is the model I have
been looking out for but no luck yet. Maybe the 2337
is OK. I look forward to your replies.

Depending on what kind of hobbies you have, you might want to look at
one of the older Tek scopes. The 547 is a pretty readily-available
machine, has 50MHz bandwidth (I've heard it can be pushed to ~75MHz with
the appropriate plug-ins), and is easy to repair (no custom ICs). The
465s are nice, too, and I've heard nothing but good things about the
454As. I have a 547, a 647 and a couple of 310As, and I find that for
most of my work, the 547 is more than adequate.

If you're really serious, you might want to check out the TekScopes
group at groups.yahoo.com. Lots of expertise there, and a lot of people
interested in the 2000-series scopes.

Cheers!
-- Tracy Nelson

I would NOT recommend a 2300 series scope.Full of TEK made ICs,and hard to
service.Also,there were not a lot of them sold,so finding parts scopes will
be a problem.2337 has the DMM/delay time counter in the lid,and the cable
was a problem.HV had problems,too.Plus the CRT screen is kinda small.


2300s were -supposed- to be a 'ruggedized' scope,but were far from
rugged,IMO.

465/475 are good scopes,2200 series are good scopes,avoid 2245/46/47 and
A,B variants.

Or go for a 7704A or 7904 with 7A26 and 7B80/85 or 7B92 PIs.Even a 7600
scope (and PIs) is better than a 2337.
--
Jim Yanik,NRA member
jyanik@kua.net

 

[A E]

Tracy Nelson wrote:

John Crighton wrote:
From what I have read on these groups an early
model 465 was recommended for hobbyists with
some repair skills as there were few Tek made
special ICs in that model. That is the model I have
been looking out for but no luck yet. Maybe the 2337
is OK. I look forward to your replies.

Depending on what kind of hobbies you have, you might want to look at
one of the older Tek scopes. The 547 is a pretty readily-available
machine, has 50MHz bandwidth (I've heard it can be pushed to ~75MHz with
the appropriate plug-ins), and is easy to repair (no custom ICs). The

I've pushed mine to 3.9GHz. Pretty neat huh?

465s are nice, too, and I've heard nothing but good things about the
454As. I have a 547, a 647 and a couple of 310As, and I find that for
most of my work, the 547 is more than adequate.

My 547 is like a DC-3.

If you're really serious, you might want to check out the TekScopes
group at groups.yahoo.com. Lots of expertise there, and a lot of people
interested in the 2000-series scopes.

Cheers!
-- Tracy Nelson