Some trivia for viewers that have never heard of EG&G on the lamp tube, the 'E' is for Harold "Doc" Edgerton, who was the pioneer of very high-speed strobe photography back in the 1930s. Some of their early work was high-speed photography to image implosion tests during the Manhattan Project.
nice to see you're back with expensive lab equipment teardowns ! I am expecting a few parcels with quite special detectory stuff to take apart too, I try to fund my purchases with youtube income, ebay sales and some scrap metal sales.
Nice teardown and awesome bit of kit. Liked that light source module. Probably made like that so that the user can change the bulb with ones with other gas fillings, for diferent spectral contents
I wish you had powered it on before taking it apart. I would have liked to have seen what is displayed on the VFD, the stepper motors move and maybe even the xenon arc lamp light up a bit if its not too far gone.
I did off camera, menu was very basic. I could set the ex and em to particular nanometers and hear the gratings move. It threw an error when i tried to start. Maybe because that lamp wasn't wasn't working. That was about it.
Thanks for this teardown :) Did they installed some LEDs in parallel to the fuses at 11:43, so they would light up, if a fuse blew? That cute quartz cuvette could be the heart of a nice small diy dye laser :D
Interesting bit of kit, with some really nice bits of salvage gear. You must be flush with photomultipliers by now :) but those diffraction gratings are a nice score. That xenon flashlamp does indeed look like it's a goner. May I ask, what do you pay for something like this to show up at your door? I've been looking for a good glass diffraction grating myself, and this doesn't seem like a bad way to go about getting one!
That is a lot less than I imagined for such an instrument. I've been looking into building my own spectrometer/monochromator and these diffraction gratings are quite a lot nicer than the ones I've been able to find/afford through the usual channels, so maybe we could come to some arrangement? I'm not sure how one usually goes about contacting someone on youtube, but I am reachable at [edited out]. Cheers!
@@DextersTechLab, if you don't come to an arrangement with Chuck, another TH-camr may be interested in the diffraction grating and some of the other gubbins. Justin from *The Thought Emporium* is trying to build a fluorescence microscope for his makerspace. I think he's based in Jacksonville, FL, USA: th-cam.com/video/8mnj5evjMX4/w-d-xo.html
Some trivia for viewers that have never heard of EG&G on the lamp tube, the 'E' is for Harold "Doc" Edgerton, who was the pioneer of very high-speed strobe photography back in the 1930s. Some of their early work was high-speed photography to image implosion tests during the Manhattan Project.
nice to see you're back with expensive lab equipment teardowns ! I am expecting a few parcels with quite special detectory stuff to take apart too, I try to fund my purchases with youtube income, ebay sales and some scrap metal sales.
Thanks! Part of the problem has been the lack of things available and getting outbid on what i do bid on!
Nice teardown and awesome bit of kit. Liked that light source module. Probably made like that so that the user can change the bulb with ones with other gas fillings, for diferent spectral contents
Holly shit 30 years and still 3v7
another great teardown, being 280 nm is interesting for the filter that's right on the border of UV B and UV C normally you choose one or the other
I wish you had powered it on before taking it apart. I would have liked to have seen what is displayed on the VFD, the stepper motors move and maybe even the xenon arc lamp light up a bit if its not too far gone.
I did off camera, menu was very basic. I could set the ex and em to particular nanometers and hear the gratings move. It threw an error when i tried to start. Maybe because that lamp wasn't wasn't working. That was about it.
There is a service manual available as well: www.agilent.com/cs/library/usermanuals/public/1046.pdf
Thanks for this teardown :) Did they installed some LEDs in parallel to the fuses at 11:43, so they would light up, if a fuse blew?
That cute quartz cuvette could be the heart of a nice small diy dye laser :D
They could well have done, the lamp PSU board also has a LED indicator labelled 'FUSE'.
Interesting stuff! Please don't stop the Quantel vids! :-)
Don't worry, given i seem to be the only one featuring Quantel stuff i feel obliged to continue!
Interesting bit of kit, with some really nice bits of salvage gear. You must be flush with photomultipliers by now :) but those diffraction gratings are a nice score. That xenon flashlamp does indeed look like it's a goner. May I ask, what do you pay for something like this to show up at your door? I've been looking for a good glass diffraction grating myself, and this doesn't seem like a bad way to go about getting one!
I paid £44 for it, if you think you might be able to use the gratings i could post them
That is a lot less than I imagined for such an instrument. I've been looking into building my own spectrometer/monochromator and these diffraction gratings are quite a lot nicer than the ones I've been able to find/afford through the usual channels, so maybe we could come to some arrangement? I'm not sure how one usually goes about contacting someone on youtube, but I am reachable at [edited out]. Cheers!
@@DextersTechLab, if you don't come to an arrangement with Chuck, another TH-camr may be interested in the diffraction grating and some of the other gubbins.
Justin from *The Thought Emporium* is trying to build a fluorescence microscope for his makerspace. I think he's based in Jacksonville, FL, USA:
th-cam.com/video/8mnj5evjMX4/w-d-xo.html
nice high pressure cuvette with quartz glass windows...mmmmh
Maybe I missed this, but is your new intro made on a paintbox?
It is yes, my Paintbox Express and Ramcorder.
@@DextersTechLab so cool!!