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That $50 shutter speed tester that took me 6 hours to figure out
Picked up a cheap oscilloscope from a garage sale and thought I could fix my faulty shutter tester in an afternoon. Big mistake. The timing circuit on that thing was so finicky I spent 4 hours just chasing a ground loop that turned out to be a bad solder joint. Then another 2 hours recalibrating the trigger threshold because the manual (if you can call it that) used a voltage reference that didn't exist anymore. Everyone says these old testers are plug-and-play simple, but my experience says otherwise. Has anyone else run into a repair that should have been quick but ate up half your day? I'm curious if I'm just unlucky or if this is common with vintage test gear.
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the_william1d ago
Respectfully, I see it a bit different. This kind of time sink is just part of the deal with vintage test gear, especially the obscure stuff nobody wrote a proper manual for. You basically paid $50 for a 6 hour lesson in timing circuits and ground loops, which is a pretty good deal if you ask me.
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wendy6281d ago
That $50 paid for itself in lessons learned, lol.
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