{"id":2365,"date":"2021-03-10T13:16:45","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T21:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wonghoi.humgar.com\/blog\/?p=2365"},"modified":"2021-03-10T13:16:46","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T21:16:46","slug":"hp-54003-61617-probe-hp-10017a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wonghoi.humgar.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/10\/hp-54003-61617-probe-hp-10017a\/","title":{"rendered":"HP 54003-61617 Probe = HP 10017A"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I have a 54003-61617 probe lying around and I never got a chance to find out what bandwidth so I rarely used it. After some digging, thanks to searchable PDFs, I found on 1986-04<\/a> edition of HP Journal (Archived copy here) that 54003-61617 probe is equivalent to 10017A:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By the way I noticed HP Labs still had the old HP Journal PDF files hosted on the website except without indexing: https:\/\/www.hpl.hp.com\/hpjournal\/pdfs\/IssuePDFs\/YYYY-MM.pdf, replace YYYY with year and MM with month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HP Journal (hparchive.com<\/a> has an excellent collection) is an excellent source of hard-core electronic engineering education materials, better than anything you can get in colleges because electronic circuit design (not IC designs) is not an academic research area anymore. As of 2000, the only way to get into this area is to work at companies (apprenticeships) instead of formal training like classes. There’s a little problem though because this specialty (analog electronics) is so disorganized, very often even veterans in analog electronics has blind spots like not taking advantage of math tools\/thinking enough (they tend to be very good at back-of-envelope calculations).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finding the specs for 10400A series (10017A) is not easy either because the datasheet is not on Keysight (the new name for HP’s instrument division). It’s listed in an 1998 catalog “How to Select A Probe<\/a>” kindly hosted by Marc Mislanghe (who passed away in 2014) as HPMemoryProject.org<\/a> that listed the specs of 10017A in attempt to find an approximate ‘modern’ substitute:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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HP 10017A (54003-61617) mini-probe has the following specs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n