I know this might be obvious, but I just want to check I have things right.
I am working on a small portable tv/radio. The power cord has only live and neutral, one of those figure of 8 plugs, therefore there is no connection to earth ground. But my oscilloscope does have an earth ground connection.
I have read much about safety using oscilloscopes and how using an isolation transformer is best and safest, but I don't have one. Something that some do is removing the ground pin from the oscilloscope to isolate from earth ground - I am not planning on doing this. But since the tv itself has no connection to earth ground, is that effectively the same as removing the ground from the oscilloscope, but the other way around?
So, is it safe to use the oscilloscope on the Tv, (signal testing nothing to do with the high voltage), as there is no common ground between the TV and the oscilloscope?