Oscilloscope Application
OSCILLOSCOPE LEADS
Oscilloscope leads are available as simple screened cable with 'crocodile clip' terminations or as 'probes' switchable between 'Times One' (X1) and 'Times Ten' (X10), also fixed attenuating X10 probes may sometimes be seen. Other types are rare enough to ignore. When a probe is switched to X10 an internal attenuator reduces the signal seen by the 'scope to one tenth of that at the probe's tip - what you measure with the 'scope needs...