I just got my first scope, it's an old analog, 2-channel, seems to be fine but what do I know.
Here's what I've done so far:
Before powering on I set the knobs per the manual.
Powered it up, said ooh and ahhh.
Found the beam!
Saw that I could read DC 5 volts on each channel!!
The beam is nice and bright and straight at DC 5V!!
(hard to tell but it was exciting)
Now what? I placed the probe on my finger tip. EKG???
I think it was picking up 60Hz on the probe cable but don't know.
I found the 500ms pp, 1kHz probe compensation port, found the small screwdriver and adjusted the probes on each channel
(thanks to w2aew)
So I think the scope's okay, but what I think's not backed by anecdotal or empirical evidence.
It's only what I think and I don't always believe what I think.
(does anyone?)
What other things can I do to test the scope?
How can I create some interesting tests for this scope with what's at hand?
My lab consists of a DMM and an oscilloscope and a digital soldering station plus some minor tools.
I have a salvaged PS from a dvd player that has DC -12V, 12V, 5V outputs.
I have a breadboard and various resistors, transistors, caps, motors, transformers salvaged from a tv/video combo and a dvd player.
(I have the solder burns to prove it!)
Here are the probes I just got:
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/buysellwanted/good-ebay-deal-buy-it-now-scope-probes-$8-99-free-shipping-in-us/I've got a pdf of the manual but it's a pdf of jpg images and the aspect ratio of the images doesn't fit my reader and so I need to convert that which is a PITA.
I really need to convert it into text and a proper ebook but that leads me to tesseract and on down the rabbit hole I go.