zachtheterrible said:
Could someone take a look @ this here oscilliscope? **broken link removed** It seems nice, but i did a little research, and the page says that its designed for slow moving or non-repetitive signals. **broken link removed**, yet its capable of 100 MHZ. What does that mean?
I've never used a storage scope, but as I understand them you can use then as a normal scope as well - in this case with 100MHz bandwidth. The storage option can also be extremely useful, in that you can effectively 'freeze' the screen - you know how with a VCR you can pause the tape and read something which only appears very briefly?, a storage scope does the same sort of thing - it allows you to 'freeze' the image of something which only happens once or occasionally. A good example would be to capture the output of an IR remote control, these have a slow repetition frequency and 'flicker' too much to see what's happening on a conventional scope - with a storage scope you can simply store the image and look at it at your leisure.
However - a storage scope is likely to be more complicated for you to use!.
And what does this mean
eflection factor from 5 mV /div to 5 V/div in a 1-2-5 sequence. I will be able to see more than 5 volt peaks, right?
That's the standard sort of layout on scopes, the values mean 'per cm', so a maximum 5V/cm mean that each vertical square on the CRT represents 5V. By using a x10 probe this expands it to 50V/cm, which is usually as much as you need.
My scope at work has 8x1cm vertical squares, so can show a 40V p-p waveform, or 400V p-p with a x10 probe.
Personally, as a TV service engineer, I find the 5V/cm too limiting, which is why I don't use Tek scopes at work!.
Lastly, is this a good oscilliscope for doing RF stuff?
It looks a good general purpose scope, 100MHz is a good high bandwidth, but probably a little too low for VHF where you seem to be playing!. 100MHz is the 3db point, where the response has dropped by 3db - it usually falls very rapidly past there.
By comparison, I use a 50MHz scope at work, and have 30MHz, 20MHz, and 10MHz ones at home. Generally scopes aren't a huge amount of help in RF projects, so high bandwidths aren't as much benefit as you might think - but are always nice to have :lol: