Re: Did I break my scope probe?

HI Nikolas

On 2 May 2005 01:08:41 -0700, "Nikolas Britton"
<nbritton@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Does this have something to do with adjusting the compensating
>capacitor in the probe, is the p6006 adjustable, do you twist the probe
>until the square wave is square?
>
>I guess if thats true then it would make sense that the probe adjust
>signal is all out of wack because I dismantled the probe and then when
>I put it back together I didn't compensate it, yes I'm a total newbie
>with scopes.

I'm not familiar with that specific model of probe - the ones I've
used have a small 'screw-head slot' in the body of the probe that you
tweak with (ideally) a non-metallic tweaker unti a square wave looks
square.

On my old Hameg scope there's even a handy 'calibration' output on the
front panel, so you can just hang the probe on there & adjust it.

Certainly sounds like you've accidentally 'adjusted' the scope probe -
now all you need to do is find out how to set it back <g>

Good luck
Adrian
Suffolk UK

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