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How do the oscilloscope probes differ ?

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texas oscilloscope probes

Can someone explain the difference in all the probes? Like what is a 1X and 10X and things like that?

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Re: Oscilloscope probes

1x means the probe has no internal voltage divisor. 10x means the probe has an internal voltage divisor by 10. Usually probe has a small switch 1x/10x. For example you have maximum vertical scale 5V/div and 6 vertical divisions on the screen. That means you can measure voltage up to 5x6 = 30V. If you have a probe with internal divisor by 10 you can measure voltage up to 5x6x10 = 300V (with the internal divisor switched on).
 

Re: Oscilloscope probes

TIP from one of the analog books:

How to make a Hi -frequency probe for low cost --
Take a 50 Ohm cable cut it and add a high value resistor (500K-1Meg) discrete component in series. This would be better than the commercially vailable probes.!!
(not the high end ones)
brmadhukar
 

Re: Oscilloscope probes

here's alink on probes
 

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