howdy, i'll be setting up my lab soon for tinkering with electronics. hehe i think i got that uni-t because he rags on them so bad lol?
but anyway i was looking for an oscilliscope...and i saw a vecotor oscilliscope. seems very different from a normal oscilliscope so it probably cannot be used really the same way? was curious
but anyway..
i also remmeber that i have about 50 VHS tapes i need to convert to digital. can a vectorscope be used to clean it up and make it look better?
i was trying to figure out it... well if anybody happened to know i had about 16 hours to make the purchase. it's 50 bucks and it looks like there are 2 vectorscope in a rack mount that appear to be working.
so...2 for the price of one? seller says it came from a radio station
but does anybody know if it can be used for that?
IF not...would it really be useful as a normal oscilliscope?
or...just some help about what i could use it for really...especially cleaning up vhs if that's even possible
i plan on taking electornics apart...tinkering, building some things in the future
There are Vectorscopes & Vectorscopes.
Video Vectorscopes range from the early 520series Tek units,& their modern equivalents, which not only measure colour signal vectors---they also measure differential gain & phase,through smaller ones which are vectorscopes only,to "vector displays" which require an external device to provide the decoded colour signals,
There are also audio vector displays which are used for stereo sound signals.(the ones you are looking at may be that type,which are useless for video.)
If the tape signals look lousy because your VHS playback device is lousy,there may be adjustments within the device you can do----whether a vectorscope would be useful is doubtful.
If you are using the composite output of your VHS device,you may be able to use something like a Colour Stabilising Amplifier to "tweak things up a bit".
Component video may give you better results.