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I've a logic probe it has 2 switches on it mem/pulse & cmos/ttl 3 led red,yellow, green, thats all I know about it , how you use them is still in progress, I think it maybe a you tube job at some stage," some of the gear , with no idea.
Oddly enough, I just used mine the other day. I have the Micronta (Radio Shack) 22-302 model I got back in the early 80s. I still find it useful. Anyway...
The Micronta's switches are "Normal/Pulse" and "CMOS/TTL", which should behave as yours does:
Normal = Just your average high/low probe.
Pulse = Adds the pulse LED to show you that the changes are being clocked while using the high/low LEDs to show relative logic levels of those pulses. That is, if the pulse LED is blinking, with the low LED bright and high LED dim, then you've got pulses with a duty cycle/rate below 50%. If they're the same brightness, it's about 50%, and if the high is bright, over 50%.
Also, on my probe, the high is paired with a piezo beep of a high frequency, and the low with a lower frequency. Simple, but annoying after a while.
CMOS/TTL = The logic levels defined by the various families set where on the pulse the logic low becomes a high. Since TTL is a 5V standard, it has a very strict definition. Since CMOS operates from about 3-18V, those levels are adjusted. If you're not sure which to use, pick CMOS over TTL.
For a quick go/no go check, you can't beat a logic probe. No batteries to leak, portable, and very versatile. In fact, I used the probe to check MOSFETs on the PCB of an R/C Helo. Since it ran off a 3V Lipo, I just set it to CMOS/Pulse, and probed the gate pins for PWM pulses from the uController.
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