Fundamentals of Digital Oscilloscope Usage

[budm]

http://www.techonline.com/electrical...lloscope-Usage

[mariushm]

Re: Fundamentals of Digital Oscilloscope Usage

Not digital, but still oscilloscope:

NJARC Oscilloscope School a.k.a. "Scopes For Dopes"

Fundamentals of oscilloscopes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZKMrzTGxLQ

Discussion thread on eevblog : http://www.eevblog.com/forum/beginne...ss-%28long%29/

To make it easier to navigate this long video - over 2 hours long, here is a list of time-stamps and the topics that begin at those timestamps. Using this "table of contents", you can easily move the youtube player location to the topic of interest.


0:00:00 Opening and Agenda
0:02:50 Brief History of Oscilloscopes – with Al Klase
0:15:00 Start of Basics of Oscilloscopes – with Alan Wolke
0:19:00 Basic Block Diagram of an Oscilloscope
0:19:50 Oscilloscope / Display Overview
0:23:00 Display Section Functions and Controls
0:28:10 Vertical Section Description
0:33:17 Vertical Scale / Coupling Controls, Input Impedance
0:38:04 Vertical Mode Controls
0:48:05 In-circuit Example of using two traces on the oscilloscope
0:52:41 Horizontal Section Description
0:53:48 Horizontal Sweep Types & Controls
1:10:15 Triggering (Synchronization) Section Description
1:13:19 Trigger Source, Mode and Coupling Controls
1:19:56 Trigger Level and Slope Controls
1:23:29 Introduction to Oscilloscope Probes
1:31:45 1X and 10X Passive Probes
1:34:00 10X Probe Compensation and Use Considerations
1:48:48 XY Mode of Operation
2:00:12 Front Panel Control Layout
2:02:20 Pop Quiz!
2:03:00 Wrap Up: Oscilloscope adds Intuitive Feel to circuit operation
2:04:45 Questions and Answers
2:13:35 Brief History of Oscilloscope Tubes

One of the people in the video has a Youtube channel and a lot of very informative and useful tutorials and videos about oscilloscopes, among other also nice things (opamp tutorials, circuits, basics of capacitors and inductors, rf stuff) :

http://www.youtube.com/user/w2aew/vi...ow=grid&view=1

[budm]

Re: Fundamentals of Digital Oscilloscope Usage

@mariushm, good links, thanks.