got my scope today!!!

[Brian Marshall]

finally.  now hopefully life will get a little easier.

bri

[Peter Snowberg]

Congratulations!

You've now stepped into a whole new world. I thing biteing the bullet and getting a new unit was the right way to go.

Take care,
-Peter

[brett]

Congrats!

It's a wierd and wonderful feeling to be able to see what you are listening to.

Have fun!

[toneman]

now U can "see" what U R doing


i've been watching FF waveforms lately......

tone

[ExpAnonColin]

Yeah, incredibly useful man...  I often even use it to measure DC voltages when accuracy isn't totally important just because getting out the DMM is a pain.

-Colin

[brett]

Just an idea about somewhere to put the 'scope.

I got one of those hinged brackets that offices used to have for holding computer monitors, and bolted it to the back of my work bench (an ex-government desk).  With this arm/bracket thing the scope can be positioned at any height, anywhere above my work bench.  The bracket was being thrown out, so I got it for $1 !  

[smoguzbenjamin]

Smart idea... a space saver too

[Brian Marshall]

I got to use it last night.  i was testing out an oscilator circuit i have been working on.  Not sure if you all remember, but I was having problems making the wave form symetrical.  I figured out that the original square wave being generated at the comparator was not symetrical either.  quickly figured out this was due to my voltage divider.

i love it

[aron]

COOL! Man, I gotta break mine out again!

[puretube]

ya sure do!

[troubledtom]

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    - tom

[ErikMiller]

After telling my girlfriend about my oscilloscope, I offered to demonstrate it for her. She dutifully trudged up to the shop in the attic, probably expecting to get nothing more from it than the "boys with their toys are so cute" thing that a lot of women dig.

Actually, *I* didn't think she'd get much out of it either. I just wanted to show off the new toy.

Anyway, I started out by getting the waveform of that 1K test oscillator I built. Fine. Looks high tech.

Then I ran the signal into a Crucible Fuzz (which she has one of) and showed her the assymetric clipping, the shape of that waveform, and how it was so different from the pure sine of the oscillator. She thought that was pretty cool.

Then we tried it with an old Big Muff, and she pointed out that the waveform from that was symmetrical, unlike the Crucible's. Yep.

I touched the probe to her finger, and showed her that you can get a waveform from that, too, and then had her count the divisions and calculate the frequency of the waveform from her finger (60Hz, not surprisingly:-).

All in all, she was pretty fascinated, and we were both surprised at how fun it was to just mess around with this thing.

As Peter said, it opens up a whole new world.