Tektronix 7854 Service, Operations and Diagnostics Manuals in PDF on CD
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These manuals cover the Tektronix 7854 Oscilloscope. They are scanned from the original manufacturer's manuals. The scans came out well, and the information available in the original manuals is available and readable here. All color coding in the operator's manual has been retained in the scanned manuals. Although you may not have the 067-0911-00 (& up) Diagnostic Test Interface used by the (part number 070-2876-00) Diagnostic Manual, it can't hurt to have the info on hand should you acquire one (or perhaps to assist you in determining the value of acquiring one). These PDF files are sent on two CDs.
Two sets of the manuals are provided, in two resolutions. One is:
Text with photos: 600dpi, grayscale (contrast adjusted)
Text with Drawings: 600dpi black and white
Schematics: 600dpi black and white
Schematics and board overlays with color notes: 256 colors 600dpi
And of course they're fully-bookmarked as well as completely hyperlinked, and have BOTH the "chapter-page" numbering system AND the sequential numbering system.. PLUS, the smaller, faster resource PDFs which are also included are text-searchable.
The "very high resolution" or "reproduction grade" resolution looks nice, but for many purposes uses excessive resources. It's kind of like driving to work every day on a tractor. You can copy the large file to the hard drive in an attempt to achieve maximum performance, however, having that be a necessity is certainly of no benefit to you. Therefore, although it's great to have this resolution for those times you need higher definition (such as when printing), we include a second set of scans in standard resolutions for daily research and use on the bench. This is of EXTREME value with PDFs in the 400-600MB range, as many of you have learned too late. You also receive separate 'foldouts" documents of the service and diagnostics manuals that contain the "A3" (17"x11") sheets scanned full-size for they who prefer them. The "foldout" sheets are also contained in the "main" manuals as regular 8-1/2 x 11" sheets.
The second set of scans is done in resolutions that vary depending on individual page content, but are never higher than needed to produce a useable quality, quickly navigable file that will do the job without consuming more time and resources than are needed.
We send you both manuals in both resolutions on the CDs. You'll receive the "very high resolution" large files, plus the smaller, faster and for many purposes much more useable text-searchable versions. That way, you can navigate, search and etceteras with the fast file and only use the excessively large files when you want to print. ALL original manual pages are supplied. Some vendors loudly and proudly advertise page counts which are inflated by the addition of advertising pages and blank pages which increases their page count and allows them to appear to supply a more comprehensive document. Rather than resort to such a deceptive "marketing" practice, we assure you that these manuals are complete, and let the fellows with the giant fonts continue to play their marketing games.
There are four Application Notes/Articles/Publications that a "competitor" has placed into his offering of the 7854 manuals. They are free downloads on the internet, but the "competitor" is (*sigh*) making quite a bit of noise about them in advertisements, as though they were really something special, so although we don't normally include anything freely downloadable in the sets we sell (other than in VERY large collections on the order of 3.5 Gigabytes in size for they who don't have fast connections) we've included that same Application Notes/article/publication set. our "competitor" claims they're "4 APPLICATIONS NOTES" but that's just more marketing slant.. there are really only TWO App Notes, plus an article reprint and another publication. Included are:
Tek7854-AN-GPIB.pdf: "USING THE 7854 IN A GPIB CONFIGURATION" (16 pages in a 2 megabyte file) (App Note #42W-4416-1)
Tek7854-AN-PCBasic.pdf: "BASIC SOFTWARE PROGRAMS FOR COMMUNICATING BETWEEN THE 7854 AND AN IBM PC" (20 pages in a 2 megabyte file) (App Note #42W-5802)
Tek7854-AN-SPSBasic.pdf: "TALKING TO THE 7854 WITH TEK SPS BASIC" (9 pages in a 1 megabyte file) (Tech article)
Tek7854-AN-variety.pdf: "MEASUREMENT VARIETY. AN ENGINEERING CHALLENGE FEATURING THE 7854" (8 pages in a 1 megabyte file) (Publication #AX-4821)
These are not the quality we like to include in our offerings, and they are and have been freely downloadable on the internet, but they are the exact same PDFs our competitor so very proudly includes, and we are certainly not figuring them in when pricing the set.
