Racal 836 Nixie Universal Counter-Timer

Thomas Stratford

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Mar 21, 2016, 2:12:08 PM3/21/16

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I recently brought this Racal 836 32MHz Universal Counter-Timer for £20 at Newbury Radio Rally last year. This counter is ruggedized military version of the 9036, has a fast warm up self contained 10MHz crystal oven oscillator option fitted and was made around 1972. When I first got the unit it wouldn't perform the self check facility and after being lead down the garden path I finally found several dry joints which were causing problems, re-soldering these fixed the problems. I managed to source an original technical manual from eBay.

Tubes are Hivac XN 13, all are soldered onto the plug-in driver boards.

Some more pictures can be found here Racal 836 Album on Flickr

David Forbes

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Mar 21, 2016, 2:28:06 PM3/21/16

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How cute! It looks just like a miniature version of the venerable HP 5245L.

On 3/21/2016 11:12 AM, Thomas Stratford wrote:
> I recently brought this Racal 836 32MHz Universal Counter-Timer for £20 at
> Newbury Radio Rally last year.
>

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David Forbes, Tucson, AZ

Nick

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Mar 21, 2016, 3:03:53 PM3/21/16

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Very nice Thomas - good to see it working again.

Cheers

Nick

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Thomas Stratford

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Mar 21, 2016, 3:35:13 PM3/21/16

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Thanks

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