Reading an oscilloscope

The impact of input impedance is more apparent when measuring very high . More details are available in the manual. In particular, you should look at the Application Examples section and the Front-Panel Menus and Controls sub-section of the Getting Started section. A secondary school revision resource for AQA Additional GCSE Science about electricity and mains electricity. Here are the factors to consider in analyzing .

This tutorial will guide you through the basics of using an oscilloscope , it is meant for someone with very little or no experience with electronics or oscilloscopes.

Understanding oscilloscope basics is critical to almost all product design.

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Basic signal measurements using an oscilloscope - Duration: 9:39. EECE 2- How to measure the time constant of an RC circuit. Monitor the final output of the system using the oscilloscope. How large are your signals now?

Timebase controls how the horizontal (X-axis) is read. In the following figure, a sine wave with . Peak-peak voltage is twice the peak voltage (amplitude). When reading an oscilloscope trace it is usual to measure peak-peak voltage. Time period is the time taken for the signal to complete one cycle. It is measured in seconds (s) but time periods tend to be short so milliseconds (ms) and microseconds (µs) are often used.

Setting oscilloscope controls, calibrating the oscilloscope , connecting probes, and compensating the probes are also describe along with basic oscilloscope measurement techniques. The more display area you use, the more accurately you can read the measurement. Describes the implicaton of recording peak-to-peak readings as opposed to RMS readings.

From this you can work out the period and hence the frequency of the signal - do it across several periods on different timebase settings to double check your readings ). This tutorial is going to discuss these three functions and hopefully place them in context when using an oscilloscope.