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I have recently received an old 70's era Tektronix 465b dual trace oscilloscope. Unfortunately I have close to no clue how to use it.

I understand the concept of triggering but this scope has two triggers, named trigger A and trigger B(DLY). Is trigger A for channel 1 and trigger B(DLY) for channel 2?

Some insight would be greatly appreciated as the manual is nearly useless in describing this.

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Anthony
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    http://www.kennethkuhn.com/hpmuseum/scans/Tek465b_op_.pdf – Scott Seidman Nov 14 '14 at 15:05
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    This is a very fine scope. Learn to use it, take care of it and find out how to repair it if it breaks. It will serve you well in electronics. – John Honniball Nov 14 '14 at 15:30
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    As @JohnHonniball says, that's a good solid scope, and it can be more trustworthy than a digital oscilloscope (no aliasing, for example). Also, unlike some slightly newer scopes from Tek, it's pretty repairable if you have the service manual. – Spehro Pefhany Nov 14 '14 at 16:32

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The 465B has two time base, A and B. The B time base is called delayed time base and can be used to zoom on a portion of a signal to see it in greater details. You can also trigger on this zoomed signal by using the trigger B (and the "DLY" is for "delayed" or "delay").

You can watch some videos from w2aew on youtube here. He has differents tutorials on Tektronix oscilloscopes.

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In Tek's Triggering Fundamentals, page. 12, it gives explanation about "Delaying triggering" and "AB.Sequence.Triggering". And i think you may need this old guy's service manual: http://bama.edebris.com/manuals/tek/465b.

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