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Products => Test Equipment => Topic started by: ts125rider on October 24, 2023, 03:46:02 pm

Title: Tektronix TDS 520D Channel hack
Post by: ts125rider on October 24, 2023, 03:46:02 pm

Hi!
I’ve got a Tektronix TDS 520D oscilloscope, which is kinda old digital oscilloscope and has kinda weird channel configuration.
It has 2 regular channels and 2 “auxiliary” channels. It can display only 2 channels any given time.

This scope looks very similar to TDS540D which has 4 regular channels and it can use all of them in the same time.

Do you think that the TDS 520 can be hacked to think it is a TDS 540 and use all the channels?
Does anyone have experience with that?

Thanks,
Mate

Title: Re: Tektronix TDS 520D Channel hack
Post by: TERRA Operative on October 25, 2023, 12:05:19 pm

The TDS520 and TDS540 scopes have different acquisition boards, so it is unfortunately not possible to have all four channels active simultaneously on a TDS520.