Timeline for Why does oscilloscope show large amplitude when I touch the probe?
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| Oct 25, 2015 at 5:57 | comment | added | got trolled too much this week | Also from opensourceinstruments.com/Electronics/A3013/HTML/Hum.html "We have never seen mains hum inside a faraday enclosure, which means that the mains hum we experience is electrostatic." | |
| Oct 25, 2015 at 5:11 | comment | added | got trolled too much this week | Capacitive coupling of your body to the mains. This book has an estimation in an average room. | |
| Jun 6, 2015 at 13:45 | comment | added | WhatRoughBeast | If your scope allows it, switch the input impedance to 50 ohms. Now see what happens. | |
| Jun 6, 2015 at 13:42 | vote | accept | v.m. | ||
| Jun 6, 2015 at 13:32 | answer | added | Andy aka | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 6, 2015 at 13:25 | history | asked | v.m. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |