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Products => Test Equipment => Topic started by: Housedad on December 07, 2018, 07:18:26 pm
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I have been looking at getting the MSIG DP10013 (130/1300v) differential probe and want to make darn sure that it is sufficient for my needs, so I am asking about it here. Cost is a issue right now, and what I do is all Hobby level, so $150 or so is the max limit.
The highest voltages that I expect to ever see would be on Tube radio sets like a AA5 or AA6, or the output of a VFD drive (240V 3ph).
Do you think the DP10013 is sufficient for this or should I get a DP20003 (560/5600V) unit later for those uses? Anything else I will be doing is mostly lower voltage and power.
I guess I should throw in that I may work on the occasional solid state (70's-80's) stereos.
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Unless you have a specific need, I would go with the DP10013: don't forget you're going to be loosing out on the bottom end with a 200x rather than 50x probe. That is to say a 0.1V signal becomes a 2mV. How well does your oscilloscope do down there?
EDIT: Off by an order of magnitude...
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The lowest price I find for the Micsig probes are $142 plus shipping of course.
Works well. I HAVE had two of them give me an output offset that I can't fix. Have been talking with the seller about that.
Hopefully we can get that taken care of but good probes in general especially for the price.
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Thanks for the input. I dropped the hint (text) to my wife for Xmas for the DP10013. She's been looking for something to give me. We'll see if this suits her fancy for a present.