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Fool'n around with DSO & AWG

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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 ?.

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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 ?.

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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.

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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!.

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Please in a EE forum make the effort to have units specified correctly !
Did you mean MHz not mHz ?

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