Repairing 14 Tektronix TLA5202 Logic Analyzers
[Matthew D’Asaro] was recently entrusted with an entire classroom fleet of fourteen broken Tektronix TLA5202 logic analyzers — a pile of equipment that once was worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. His task: Fixing them. He fixed them all, and on the way documented a number of common failure points in these old but still great devices.
[Matthew] found that Tektronix’s portion of the electronics took the ravages of time and classroom use quite well, only the embedded desktop PCs inside the machines simply weren’t built for the ten-year. Some of the hard-drives had to be replaced, but most units …read more
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