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| tautech:
--- Quote from: tekguy on October 01, 2022, 05:51:44 pm ---What is an awg?,the only thing i know as awg is american wire gauge ?. --- End quote --- In capitals means nothing other than an Arbitrary Waveform Generator better known to old farts as a FG but a AWG is many times more useful than an FG. Study of the first post or 2 indicates we need both Staircase and Ramp/Triangle waveforms, I may be wrong but I've never seen an FG that could do a Staircase. For this project a 2ch frequency source is required of which old school 2ch FG's are quite rare whereas 2ch AWG's are very common and for this usage perfectly suited. |
| mawyatt:
--- Quote from: tautech on October 01, 2022, 07:28:13 pm --- --- Quote from: tekguy on October 01, 2022, 05:51:44 pm ---What is an awg?,the only thing i know as awg is american wire gauge ?. --- End quote --- In capitals means nothing other than an Arbitrary Waveform Generator better known to old farts as a FG but a AWG is many times more useful than an FG. Study of the first post or 2 indicates we need both Staircase and Ramp/Triangle waveforms, I may be wrong but I've never seen an FG that could do a Staircase. For this project a 2ch frequency source is required of which old school 2ch FG's are quite rare whereas 2ch AWG's are very common and for this usage perfectly suited. --- End quote --- And the two waveforms (Ramp and Stairstep) need to be synchronized. One Ramp Sweep for each Stairstep, otherwise the curve plot will likely look very messy!! Best, |
| RoGeorge:
And for those who don't have an AWG, for curve tracing the AWG can be substituted with this: https://www.qsl.net/w2aew/youtube/curvetracer.pdf And for those who don't have a DSO either, any analog oscilloscope with XY mode will work. In fact, old analog oscilloscopes are working much better in XY mode than a usual DSO. ;D |
| tekguy:
very true,i have a tek 465 and a rigol dso 50mhz 1GSa/s the 465 knocks spots off of the rigol with an octopuss in xy mode,works but only just!. |
| tautech:
--- Quote from: tekguy on October 01, 2022, 09:30:42 pm ---very true,i have a tek 465 and a rigol dso 50mhz 1GSa/s the 465 knocks spots off of the rigol with an octopuss in xy mode,works but only just!. --- End quote --- Please in a EE forum make the effort to have units specified correctly ! Did you mean MHz not mHz ? |
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