Questions tagged [oscilloscope]
A piece of measurement equipment which can visualize one or more signals simultaneously on a time scale.
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What type of oscilloscope can be used to troubleshoot 100BASE-T1 automotive ethernet?
I would like to implement the 100Mbps single pair automotive ethernet specified in 802.3bw, otherwise known as 100BASE-T1. I was told that in order to troubleshoot and test on this standard, the ...
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How to measure capacitor value using an LC circuit?
How would I measure the value of capacitor using an inductor of unknown value but with a function generator producing a sine wave of 1MHz?
I have an oscilloscope handy.
I lost the labelling on the ...
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How to use a CSV file from an oscilloscope for further analysis
I saved and opened this data from my oscilloscope:
How to plot the real scale waveform data? Do I have to multiply it with vertical scale?
And what about the time? What to do if I want to plot the ...
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High Speed Digital Signal Measurement
What is the best way to measure a 40 MHz clock signal?
I tried using an oscilloscope with an 8pf passive probe, and the signal was unrecognizable. Would a logic analyzer work better in this case?
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Wave disappearing on oscilloscope
I am trying to observe a wave on my oscilloscope (with a CRT display). I can see a point on the screen tracing out the waveform, but the wave does not stay on the screen for me to say. This wave is ...
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How to measure high frequency with an oscilloscope without loading circuit down too much?
I am experimenting with building a high frequency common emitter circuit shown here. It operates at 144MHz and it should have around a gain of 4.
Here is the simulated circuit. I do not have any load ...
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Class AB Amplifier - Weird oscilloscope output
I have built this little kit for a class AB Amplifier. This is the schematic if you do not want to follow the link
It works fine, I can hear decent sound.
I then tried to check the output with an ...
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Can you measure the voltage of a capacitor with using an oscilloscope without a function generator?
Can I just use my oscilloscope to measure the voltage across a capacitor or will I need a function generator for that?
For some reason it shows what looks to be like a capacitor charging if I am not ...
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Measuring SNR on a mulltiplexed coax power and data cable
Please excuse the basic knowledge I have in this field.
Within my workplace, we constantly use long 300m-6km coax cable which carries HV (Up to 400VDC) and DSL data.
We have encountered problems ...
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Oscilloscope with 400 MHz but only 100 MS/s?
The Tektronix TDS430A is a 400 MHz 100 MS/s oscilloscope. I know other ocsilloscopes which could be toggled between analog mode and digital mode, so that these numbers would make sense. However, it ...
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Problem with Leader LBO-5880 oscilloscope
I have a Leader LBO-5880 oscilloscope I just bought this weekend.
I don't know much about this oscilloscope: how to operate it for normal function oscilloscope without any programmable set.
I have ...
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How do I tell whether if it is my oscilloscope or circuit catching mains 50 Hz?
I see that my oscilloscope has some 50 Hz when the probe only is connected to the oscilloscope, which is normal. But I want to know if my circuit is catching the 50 Hz main from e.g. the power supply. ...
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Oscilloscope and power supply measurement
If I use a switch load and an digital oscilloscope to test my linear power supply response, then which type of trigger should I use, if I want to display on CH1 the PSU output and on CH2 the output of ...
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Oscilloscope drawing - low-pass filter
I'm doing a project that can draw an analog clock on the XY mode of an oscilloscope using the Atmega88-20PU with the default clock frequency of 1MHz. To display the image I use a PWM signal applied to ...
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Can LabVIEW be used instead of an oscilloscope to measure signals?
I've been thinking about buying an oscilloscope for self usage. However, searching for oscilloscopes on Google reveals that they are very expensive - the cheapest I found was about $200.
It turns out, ...
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Wheatstone bridge to create offset
While comparing schematics of two old analog oscilloscopes (Tektronix 475 and Goldstar 9020,) I was expecting many differences to get better frequency response since the first is a 250MHz and the ...
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Decoupling channels on an oscilloscope?
I have 2 x AD9833s programmable waveform generators running off the same SPI bus.
Generator A is on channel 1 (yellow in the picture below) and is a sine wave set at 1 kHz.
Generator B is on channel ...
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Location of power supply
I am making my own 2GHz DSO and I have question regarding position of my power supply.
Many companies and hobbyists that are designing their own osciloscopes, not include power supply on their ...
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Dc power supply outputting sine wave at both terminals
I connected a DC power supply (set to 706mV) to a 1kohm resistor as this:
The semantic is like:
However, strange things happen when I use the oscilloscope to view the voltage waveform at point A and ...
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Why is Multisim Oscilloscope ALWAYS doubling my input voltage?
My Multisim Oscilloscope is ALWAYS doubling my input voltage.
If I put a 5Vp in from the function generator, it will show a sine wave with a 10Vp in the scope.
This is extremely frustrating and I ...
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Do I need more capacitance for my crystal?
I've used the formula "CL = (C1 * C2) / (C1 + C2) + Cstray" (where C1 = C2) to calculate the capacitors I need for my board. CL is 18pF, I ballparked Cstray at 5pF, meaning I should use ...
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Oscilloscope “noise”?
I'm just getting a start learning about electronics, and purchased a new oscilloscope -- a DreamSource Lab DScope U2P20 4, which uses the open-source DSView software 5. I built a simple 555 timer ...
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Short circuit while measuring
I wanted to measure a LVDS signal across the termination resistor with my oscilloscope. I tried to measure it with DC coupling and AC coupling. Using the AC coupling option led to a short circuit I ...
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Measuring frequency of a coin vibration motor
I'm trying to determine the change in frequency with voltage of a coin vibration motor (https://solarbotics.com/product/vpm2/) using an oscilloscope. So far I have tried two different set ups.
Set up ...
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Peak-to-Peak vs Mean Voltage Measurement
I am using an oscilloscope with 2 probes to measure the average voltage across a resistor over time.
In regard to the measurement modes for the 2 channels on my oscilloscope, I am not sure whether to ...
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What is this fluctuation I get when I use the DC electronic load?
I have a buck converter. I am loading the buck converter using an electronic load - EA-EL 9200-18T
When I load 100mA at the output of the buck converter, I get this waveform:
To try to find out what ...
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If a square wave has infinite bandwidth, how can we see it on an oscilloscope?
If a square wave requires infinite bandwidth how can we display it on oscilloscopes?
Link: Oscilloscope fundamentals.
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Can measuring back EMF spikes damage the oscilloscope?
I want to measure the voltage across an inductor as soon as I disconnect one of its terminals to visualize how back EMF changes with and without a fly-back diode. From videos on Youtube: https://www....
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How do oscilloscopes and multimeters recognize waveforms?
Let's suppose that I am measuring a real-time periodic signal with an oscilloscope. Then I know that the oscilloscope is able to calculate the average value of the periodic waveform, and maybe even ...
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Oscilloscope probe coupling [duplicate]
I am using this buck converter.
Schematic:
Buck Converter Specifications :
Input Voltage - 18V to 32V
Switching Frequency - 300kHz
Output Voltage 9V
Load Current - 0mA to 200mA Maximum.
When ...
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Sending an audio signal using piezoelectric sender and receiver - strange electrical behavior
I'm building a rudimentary sonar using piezoelectric discs and I wanted to test it to see if a receiving disc could hear a sending disc. I have the sender hooked up to a ATTiny85 that is sending a ...
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Are there two types of curve tracers?
I recently discovered the device class 'curve tracer', the kind that you hook up to an oscilloscope via BNC in X-Y mode to test components.
It appears to me as if there would be two variants.
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Bad oscilloscope probe does not measure DC
I seem to have messed up my oscilloscope probe during PCB testing. Too high a voltage was applied and there was arcing between the probe and a pin on the PCB. The probe can still read square waves ...
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How do I measure an 'industry standardised' noise given Vrms ~ oscilloscope settings?
I have an example of a noise source, but the specific device is unimportant to the fundamental aspect of this question. I'm trying to measure it's level with an industry standardised method so that I ...
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Oscilloscope probe noise
I am trying to measure a DC signal in the mV range.
Below is the waveform I get after I connect the oscilloscope to its probe and without connecting it to anything:
I am getting a ripple like ...
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Power over coax filter selection
TL;DR - How do I determine the appropriate inductor size to filter out signals at 115.2 kHz? Is the channel frequency determined by the baud rate or the signal rise time?
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Why does this connection not become a low impedance between Positive (Isolated system) and Ground (Earth)?
I was going through a lecture regarding oscilloscope grounding methods and saw this image.
Assume I have the isolated widget powered by an external battery. Now, I am going to measure the signals ...
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Why do oscilloscopes have such high sampling rates when the bandwidth is low?
Lets say we have an oscilloscope with Bandwidth:70MHz and Sample Rate:2.5GSample/s.
Since we can capture adequately signals of frequency 14MHz (1/5 of bandwidth rule of thumb,) why do we need such a ...
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Why does my CD 40106 and CD 4069 inverters have such a bad output signal shape at 10 MHz?
I am measuring both the 10 MHz (5V pk-pk) input signal, and the output signal of the above mentioned inverters. Why does the output signal looks so much different than the input? I have decoupling ...
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How is the high frequencies are found in the rise time of signal? [duplicate]
I have read an article from Tektronix on how oscilloscope probes affect your meausurment
here i read that:
The consequence of a large capacitance value is severe because the front edge of the signal ...
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Poor man's oscilloscope - more simple
In our lab we have NI cards and work with -10 to 10V. Oscilloscopes are rare and some mobile and quick-and-dirty solution would be fine for debugging. Therefore the 'poor man's oscilloscopes' that ...
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Are analog CRT oscilloscope becoming rare? [closed]
Back in the early 2000s I bought cheap Commodore 64 sets from eBay, we were able to get huge collections for under 100 USD. Today they are rare and commensurately expensive! Today you can get analog ...
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CAN Frame Malforming on Oscilloscope
I have a working 500kbps CAN bus between an Arduino Uno and a RaspberryPi. Both are connected to MCP2515/TJA1050 boards from Amazon and communicating over SPI. The RaspberryPi dumps the CAN data via ...
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RMS and average value of a DC signal - Which is the correct way to eliminate the inaccuracies due to incorrect measurement setup?
I have a 5V DC signal and there are some ripples on top of the DC signal in the range of 50-100mV (maybe due my measurement inaccuracies or the switching noise coupling from other sources.)
In that ...
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What could be the reason if the AC coupling option goes away when I attach a differential probe (P6248) to a Tek MSO5204 scope?
When the scope is not attached, I could see both AC coupling and DC coupling options for the channel settings. The moment I attach the differential probe, the AC coupling option goes away. Any reason?...
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What's the secret to “real” oscilloscopes
Okay, so at some point we've all connected things to a sound card input or an arduino analog input pin and said "look, mom! I made and oscilloscope!"
And, yes, technically you can get a ...
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Search coil with ferrite not working
I am measuring magnetic fields from 50kHz to 500kHz with this search coil (air coil.) It is a wound of bell wire from the hardware store connected to an oscilloscope probe tip and ground:
I have ...
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How do so many high end oscilloscopes support Gsps when most microcontrollers have ADC rates at Msps?
How do so many high end oscilloscopes support scanning rates at Gsps?
Most micro controllers have ADCs reading only at few Msps.
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Why does overshooting occur when probe's adjustable capacitor is under-value
I can't wrap my head around how overshooting (the spike) happens when the 10X probe capacitor trimmer (Cp) is under-tuned (i.e. adjustable capacitor's value is not high enough). There are countless of ...
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Sine wave shows up on oscilloscope but keeps moving
I'm fairly new to electronics and new to using an oscilloscope. I followed a youtube video to setup a sine wave using an Arduino Uno and a capacitor to detect on my Tektronix 2235.
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