Help with MAC ETS 2800 Scope?

[Thrashercharged]

I recently bought a MAC ETS 2800 Automotive scope and I'm needing a manual or some help from someone that knows how to use this! All I find on the internet are the press releases telling me the features of this scope.

I use lab scopes so I understand how to use scopes in general but apparently there's a lot of features I'm not using on this scope.

Thanks for any help!

 

[2ndGearRubber]

https://assets.tequipment.net/assets/1/26/Documents/S2800-Man.pdf

ETS2800 manual. Not necessarily the MAC versions manual, but the table of contents picture matches what MAC ETS2800 brings up on an image search.


Control functions look mostly like a graphing calculator meets multimeter.

 

[rogermac]

Have you tried contacting Mac Tools Customer Service at 1-800-Mactools. They should be able to help with a manual.

 

[Thrashercharged]

@rogermac - yep, I've email MAC but the email address their website sent me to didn't have MAC in the address so it was kinda strange and I wasn't confident it'll actually get to a MAC employee. Also, since they don't publish a .pdf of any of their manuals on their customer support site like most all companies do these days, I wasn't very confident they'd be able to help, especially with something this old and a product they obviously source from a 3rd party.

@2ndGearRubber - thanks! That link is exactly what I need! How did you ever find it? I knew this was a 3rd party product MAC just puts their name on, but how did you figure out the actual manufacturer was Unisource? Yep - it does look like a graphing calculator meets multimeter.

thanks for everyone's quick help!

 

[2ndGearRubber]

"MAC ETS 2800 Automotive scope" - shows some ebay listings. You know what you're looking for, and I then realized the manual was pretty thick, not just a button schematic. Checked an image search, nobody had an obvious scan of the manual in the first scroll. Kinda looked like those old Fluke scopes ( fluke 98?), figured MAC wasn't doing the R&D themselves. "ETS 2800 Automotive scope", 4th result down.

IME anytime MAC/MATCO/SNAP ON is in the title, remove that when searching to try to find OEMs. Including MAC brought up mostly expired for-sale listings.



Glad you got what you need. Might be worth printing, if you plan on keeping for a while. 130 pages printed and bound might be worthwhile if that PDF I linked ever expires or disappears.

 

[Thrashercharged]

@2ndGearRubber "IME anytime MAC/MATCO/SNAP ON is in the title, remove that when searching to try to find OEMs. Including MAC brought up mostly expired for-sale listings."

Thanks for the hint about removing the brand name in the search. Yeah, all I was finding were press releases and expired sales listing. I saved the .pdf - I do that with all manuals when I search and find them just in case the links go away. I have an entire folder structure of manuals and "How to use" type docs! Thanks again for your help!