[Test-Equipment] Tektronix TM500 TM5000 Extender boards

Miles Anderson k2cby at optonline.net
Thu Aug 31 17:13:56 EDT 2006


The kit arrived from jammaboards.com today.

It looks fine and just as pictured in the advertisement. The finger board is
glass epoxy. The traces are tin plated. The holes are plated through and
indexed with silk screen lettering. They even cut the notch in the board
where the indexing plug goes.

The only point to note is that the ribbon cable supplied with the board has
only 10 conductors. You will note that most of the TM500 devices use only 8
or 10 of the available contacts, so this really isn't a drawback. If you
want a genuine all-purpose extender, however, you are going to have to get
some more wire.

Now I've got to sit down to an evening of soldering!

Miles Anderson
16 Round Pond Ln
Sag Harbor, NY 11963



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