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Originally Posted by Tubejunke
I am thinking that when there is no signal applied that the flat line is steady. Any advice here would be greatly appreciated
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Wow! I've never quoted myself before.. Anyway, with the two sets of possibilities that I have so far been given I had time to check things out. First off I realized that I was wrong in saying the above first sentence. It does this at all times; signal applied or not.
I tried everything mentioned thus far and every other combination of the many (too many) settings and nothing will give me that rock steady trace that I would like to have and have seen on even the oldest of units. Again though I have seen others that do the same thing in YouTube vids, but the videos I have seen it in are not about this particular issue.
All in all I like this scope. Once the college loaned me one of their digital pieces of junk in my opinion and I quickly realized why my professor had the labs set up with analog scopes. Admittedly, I know that digital units have come a long way and I would hope so as much money as can be spent on one. I guess there is at least one good reason why I am not an engineer which would be about the only reason I think that you would need the numbers and capabilites of the new generation of scopes.
They say there are a few odd ball guys in the upper echelons of electronics that still use older analog equipment, but supposedly they get a lot of ribbing from their peers. Sort of like me taking my Simpson 260 to work and getting 'the look', even from my boss who I went to school with. Funniest thing is one day we had a piece of equipment with a bad potentiometer. The house Fluke 5 had some issue besides the mind boggling array of way too fast moving numbers.
So it was Simpson to the rescue. Of course I was the only tech there who could operate it. My boss tried to brush off the embarrassment of not being the superior being my telling me that it was too old and could only measure 10Kohms (the highest selection) and we had a larger pot. I tried to explain multipliers, but time has moved forward too far I guess. People now just want everything simple, easy and basically done for them without thought. I did at least get to prove the undeniable tool that the analog meter is in this particular instance by showing them the sweep of the dial indicator up to the problem point within the potentiometer.
I better stop before I go on another rant about the dumbing down of electronics. In a sentence at least, you simply don't need to know what you used to.....
