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- From: wtm@uhura.neoucom.edu (Bill Mayhew)
- Subject: Re: Basic bench equipment query
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.142138.2576@uhura.neoucom.edu>
- Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 14:21:38 GMT
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- If you are going to do much digital work, you really should try to
- get a 100 Mhz - 150 MHz bandwidth scope. To make reasonably
- accurate rise time measurements, you need approximately 10 times
- input bandwidth versus the repetition rate of the signal. Yes, it
- is possible to compute rise times from a scope with a more limited
- bandwidth, but it is rather inconvenient and best left as an
- exercise for an engineering school measurement techniques course.
-
- I've got an old Tektronix 547 at home that has a less than 30 MHz
- bandwidth, but that is somewhat mitigated by having a 1S1 sampler
- plug-in unit for > 1 GHz sampling, but that is only useful for
- repetitive signals.
-
- Having extended bandwidth also assists greatly for spotting
- glitches in pulses. You'll definitely appreciate that if you do
- any fiddling around with digital stuff. I've had a Tek 2445 on my
- bench here at work for about 8 years now, and have been quite
- pleased with it. The 2445 doesn't have nearly the bells and
- whistles of some of the newer units, but it does have 150 MHz
- bandwidth, four inputs, triggered/delayed/intensified sweep and
- measurement cursors. I'd imagine that 2445s are probably starting
- to come down in price in the surplus market now. In the unlikely
- event a 2445 shows up at a hamfest, it is usually gone in a few
- minutes.
-
- By the way, if anybody has a working 1L5 spectrum analyzer plug-in
- to get rid of, I might be interested....
-
-
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