Oscilloscopes Newnes Fifth Edition ppt

[...]... period of support expires This f i l t h edition of the hook, which was lirst published in 1981 and has never been o u t of print since, ha\ been extensively revised Chapter 11, describing how storage cathode ray tubes work, has been retained It was added at the third edition when ’analogue’ storage scopes (i.e those using direct-view storage c.r.t.s) were Preface to fifth e d i t i o n xi available from... left ready to start a n o t h e r traverse, usually called a 'trace', 'sweep' or 'scan' As noted above, some oscilloscopes use an LCD display This is a trend w h i c h will continue; in future m o r e and more models, especially portable and h a n d h e l d oscilloscopes and digital storage oscilloscopes, will opt for this display technology Figure 1.3 shows the picture that might appear on the screen... use, a n d some guidance on their advantages, limitations and quirks m a y not come amiss And while oscilloscopes using a storage cathode ray tube no longer seem to be available (except on the second user market), one of the major oscilloscope m a n u f a c t u r e r s still produces analogue storage oscilloscopes, using a 'scan converter tube' The principle of operation of these is also t o u c h e... The chapter has therefore been retained, but with the substantial pruning carried out at the previous (fourth) edition, while still covering all the fundamentals of the subject The book n o w includes photographs of later models of some of the instruments which were illustrated in the fourth edition, plus details and photographs of instruments from various m a n u facturers whose product lines were not... w h o have assisted by providing information on, and pictures of, their products F r o m these, a selection of photographs has been included illustrating real-time oscilloscopes, both storage and non-storage, sampling and digital storage oscilloscopes and their accessories In each case, the caption at least gives brief details of the performance of the instrument, whilst in several cases it has been... make observations For some reason the subject of the design and use of oscilloscopes is generally not called oscilloscopy but oscillography, from oscilloand graphein, to write There are other types of oscilloscope besides those using cathode ray tubes For example, pen recorders, ultra-violet chart recorders and XY plotters are all oscilloscopes or oscillographs of a sort, as indeed is 'Fletcher's Trolley'...x Preface to fifth edition satisfactory Apart from blurred lips the newsreader was not too bad but a football match was a disaster The blue ball with its long curved yellow tail looked like a comet, and when thc camera... Likewise, in the vertical or Y direction, t h e sensitivity or ' d e f l e c t i o n factor' is 100 V p e r division On oscilloscopes w i t h a 1 3 c m ( S i n c h ) n o m i n a l s c r e e n d i a m e t e r , t h e divisions are c e n t i m e t r e squares H o w e v e r , s o m e oscilloscopes h a v e a s m a l l e r s c r e e n size t h a n this In s u c h cases, graticules with f e w e r c e n t... Calibration Workstation, the model 9500 can calibrate analogue and digital oscilloscopes with bandwidths up to 1.1 GHz Active Head Technology T M delivers calibration waveforms directly to the oscilloscope's input connectors, without the need for connecting leads, for the ultimate in accuracy (reproduced by courtesy of Wavetek Ltd) 16 Oscilloscopes Figure 2.8 The VDS2152 Virtual Digital Scope from CELL,... h a n The basic oscilloscope 17 internal graticule, ensuring freedom from parallax w h e n viewing the trace from any angle The OX71 is only one of the Metrix range of oscilloscopes but it is fairly typical of a wide range of basic oscilloscopes available from a number of manufacturers Some may have one or two facilities not found on the OX71 and vice versa, and like the OX71 most are (within the limits . Reprinted 1984 Second edition 1986 Revised reprint 1987 Reprinted 1989 Third edition 1990 Reprinted 1992, 1994 Fourth edition 1995 Reprinted 1997, 1998, 1999 Fifth edition 2001 Reprinted. vii Preface to fifth edition ix 1. Introduction 1 2. The basic oscilloscope 8 3. Advanced real-time oscilloscopes 18 4. Accessories 33 5. Using oscilloscopes 52 6. Sampling oscilloscopes. Digital storage oscilloscopes 115 8. Oscilloscopes for special purposes 149 9. How oscilloscopes work (1): the c.r.t. 176 10. How oscilloscopes work (2): circuitry 188 11. How oscilloscopes