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    parnizaaa How‘o Build Your Oun Oscilloscope Probes How to Build Your Own Oscilloscope Probes Building Your Own Oscilloscope Probes Sure, you could buy oscloscope probes rom Amazon or eBay. But where's te fun inh? ‘This project shows you how to build your own test probes for oscilloscopes or other instruments using household items. The only "electronic parts" needed are a piece of 50-750 coaxial cable with a BNC connector at one end and two small resistors, You wil also need an aligator clip and a shor piece of insulated wire, both of those commonly found in hardware stores. Design Many instruments can use simple wire leads to connect a small pointed test probe tothe instrument input, However, osciloscopes and other instuments used with high frequency signals need more complex prabes in order to avoid storing the very signal you are tying to measure, You willikely have problems if you directly connect an oscilloscope to a circuit under test using a coaxial cable with clips on the tend. This is what might be called a 1% probe. f you were only measuring constant OC voltages, perhaps measuring battery vollages, a 1% probe would be fine. But.n that situation you would use a vollmeter. The complexity, size, and expense of an osciloscope are only justified because you need to measure or visualize a rapidly time-varying signal Oscilloscopes typically have input impedances on the order of 1M. Meanwfile, 50-750 coax ypically has a capacitance of about 100 pF per meter. That means a very low impedance al radio frequencies, That low impedance significantly loads the circuit under test, and that in tum distorts the measurement, ‘Something Ike a 10:1 resistive divider probe circuit is commonly used to avoid these problems. Here is a simple 10x attenuating probe design that presents a load of about S megohms tothe circuit under test AL 5 Noha : test

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