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Handheld Oscilloscope

Calendar May 1, 2010 | Posted by admin

Handheld Oscilloscope

An oscilloscope is used to show what is happening to a voltage as time passes. For example, in your house, you have outlets to a 110 Volt sine wave. What that means is the voltage is swinging from a positive value (about 130 Volts because the 110 is a RMS value) to a negative value. Consequently, a time dependent picture of this voltage would look like a sine wave. I should note, most oscilloscopes aren’t built to tolerate such large voltages, but this is a useful example because most people have wall outlets.

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Oscilloscope Probe

Calendar May 1, 2010 | Posted by admin

Oscilloscope Probe

It is essential to have proper functioning oscilloscope probes. If you have an old or malfunctioning probe, you will be sure to cause a great deal of frustration, panic, loss of time and possibly money. Be more accurate and consider purchasing new oscilloscope probes if yours haven’t been replaced in a while.

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PC Oscilloscope

Calendar May 1, 2010 | Posted by admin

PC Oscilloscope

A PC oscilloscope is an economical solution to anyone’s scope needs. A PC oscilloscope uses a little external hardware, the computer monitor, and software of some sort. For a digital PC oscilloscope, the external hardware must include an analog to digital converter (ADC) and a voltage divider. Luckily PC oscilloscope manufactures include everything you need to implement this economical version of the oscilloscope.

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