Hi
I'll just start by admitting that I'm completely ignorant when it come to electronics. However, I have a problem with an old oscilloscope that I'm hoping someone on here will be able to assist me with.
It's a Telequipment D43. I brought this beauty 2nd hand about 9 years ago and apart from smelling bad it worked perfectly. For the past 7 years it's been sitting at the bottom of my mum's cupboard though. A couple of weeks ago I finally managed to bring it over to germany where I now live but when I switched it on it was dead. I found that the glass fuse in the back had broken or blown. It's a 1.5A 16mm x 5mm and I have been unable to find anything similar in Berlin. Instead I tried a 1.6A 20mm x 5mm and held it in with gaffer tape but it blew straight away. The settings at the back of the scope allow you to adjust the voltage for the mains. Mine was set to 220 +20, should I adjust the voltage to 220 +10 to suit the german current? Or do I need to find the correct fuse? After the fuse blew the machine stank like dirty pond water so I don't know if it went mouldy sitting in that cupboard all those years. I did open it up to look inside but apart from some dust it looked ok.
Sorry for being so green, any help would be really appreciated though!
Here is a link to the model I'm using:
http://www.google.de/imgres?q=old+o...nw=84&start=0&ndsp=53&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0,i:75
I'll just start by admitting that I'm completely ignorant when it come to electronics. However, I have a problem with an old oscilloscope that I'm hoping someone on here will be able to assist me with.
It's a Telequipment D43. I brought this beauty 2nd hand about 9 years ago and apart from smelling bad it worked perfectly. For the past 7 years it's been sitting at the bottom of my mum's cupboard though. A couple of weeks ago I finally managed to bring it over to germany where I now live but when I switched it on it was dead. I found that the glass fuse in the back had broken or blown. It's a 1.5A 16mm x 5mm and I have been unable to find anything similar in Berlin. Instead I tried a 1.6A 20mm x 5mm and held it in with gaffer tape but it blew straight away. The settings at the back of the scope allow you to adjust the voltage for the mains. Mine was set to 220 +20, should I adjust the voltage to 220 +10 to suit the german current? Or do I need to find the correct fuse? After the fuse blew the machine stank like dirty pond water so I don't know if it went mouldy sitting in that cupboard all those years. I did open it up to look inside but apart from some dust it looked ok.
Sorry for being so green, any help would be really appreciated though!
Here is a link to the model I'm using:
http://www.google.de/imgres?q=old+o...nw=84&start=0&ndsp=53&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0,i:75