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| shapirus:
FWIW, as an example, here's what I am able to capture with a Rigol DHO804 tricked into thinking that it's a DHO924. Cost $342.16 at the time of purchase, but I did use some Aliexpress sale coupons active at that time. 1. A ~10 nanosecond pulse: 2. The shortest pulse that it can capture and detect its true amplitude (of course including the overshoot), meaning there's at least one sample point present at the peak: 3. About the shortest pulse that it is able to trigger on; here the displayed amplitude is below the true value (vertical scale is the same, but I raised voltage of the signal source to output ~5 V): (I am not sure whether I hit the limitations of the scope or of the pulse generator here, but naturally I would expect that it's the scope, because it's clearly about the spot where 1.25 Gsa/s becomes the limiting factor) As you can see, it has no issue triggering on a 1 kHz repetition rate. As a matter of fact, it happily triggers on a 0.1 Hz signal: All of the above was captured using a 100:1 probe, so ~25 mV on the scope input. It can trigger on lower values just fine, but I haven't tested how low it can go when the pulses are very short. I also haven't tested it on capturing two consecutive short pulses, but really there's no reason for it to be able to capture one, but not two. A caveat: this was captured with a single channel being active. When you switch on another one, sampling rate is halved, and the results become accordingly worse. Now, I'm not saying that it's necessarily a good idea to get, for scientific work, a scope like this, for which the observations you want to make are not very much above the limits of its capabilities, but I do want to point out that a multi-thousand dollar scope is not necessarily a strict requirement. I think it's the probes that you'll need to spend most of the money on, at least as soon as it comes to high voltage and/or differential probing. |
| tggzzz:
--- Quote from: tautech on March 06, 2024, 07:58:27 pm ---39kV 1000:1 2pF 50 MHz 900M \$\Omega\$ HVP-39pro fits the bill. --- End quote --- Make sure the voltage vs frequency derating curve is acceptable :) |
| tautech:
--- Quote from: tggzzz on March 06, 2024, 08:31:22 pm --- --- Quote from: tautech on March 06, 2024, 07:58:27 pm ---39kV 1000:1 2pF 50 MHz 900M \$\Omega\$ HVP-39pro fits the bill. --- End quote --- Make sure the voltage vs frequency derating curve is acceptable :) --- End quote --- OP states: like kHz or slower |
| blackdog:
Hi, Good pulse response is not possible with passive probes. I have several 500MHz probes and none of them have as few abberations as a good coax connection. Coax type If possible, then always use good 50 Ohm coax, normal RG58 is not good enough for correct pulse response. Bandwidth I am thinking more of a 500MHz model scope with at least 2GHz sample frequency. My 2 cents :-) Kind regards, Bram |
| tggzzz:
--- Quote from: tautech on March 06, 2024, 08:36:39 pm --- --- Quote from: tggzzz on March 06, 2024, 08:31:22 pm --- --- Quote from: tautech on March 06, 2024, 07:58:27 pm ---39kV 1000:1 2pF 50 MHz 900M \$\Omega\$ HVP-39pro fits the bill. --- End quote --- Make sure the voltage vs frequency derating curve is acceptable :) --- End quote --- OP states: like kHz or slower --- End quote --- Yes. So? |
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