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Products => Test Equipment => Topic started by: k.valentino on May 16, 2019, 10:43:57 am

Title: Robust oscilloscope probes
Post by: k.valentino on May 16, 2019, 10:43:57 am

Hi  :),

need more robust oscilloscope probes (not too expensive) - for automotive and general testing.
My scope is Micsig TO1104 (with 4 probes 10:1 Micsig P130A (http://www.micsig.com/html/33.html)). In most cases, I use it for automotive tests and car module repairs, but sometimes I also repair electrical appliances and devices

I seen good references for Testec TT-HV 150 (https://www.testec.de/en/assets/pdf/TT-HV/TT-HV-150_Datasheet_DE.pdf) probe (1:100 high-voltage probe – 1.5 kV), is it ok for automotive and general use?

Or it is better to buy the most common 1:10 probes - like this Testec TT-MF 312 (https://www.testec.de/en/assets/pdf/TT-MF/TT-MF-312_Datasheet_DE.pdf)?

What would you recommend?

Title: Re: Robust oscilloscope probes
Post by: tautech on May 16, 2019, 11:16:29 am

If they're gunna get beaten up then the cheapest you can find will work just fine.
Let a P6100 probe search on eBay be your friend.  ;)

Title: Re: Robust oscilloscope probes
Post by: David Hess on May 16, 2019, 02:44:02 pm

In my experience, high impedance x100 probes are more difficult to use in place of x10 probes in general purpose applications.  They are more finicky and tend to pick up more noise so I only use them when required.

Tektronix used to make heavy duty oscilloscopes probes so you might look for something like that.  This one from Probe Master is the only thing I found in a quick search:

https://probemaster.com/3900-series/

Those P6100 probes that Tautech mentions are cheap but also pretty fragile.  Still, you could probably buy 4 of them for the price of the next cheapest good probe.