The controls on both types are basically the same be aware that the digital scopes may hide some of there controls in a menu on the LCD display instead of using knob or button.Īll oscilloscopes have some basic controls in common, be sure you can identify these controls on your oscilloscope:

Oscilloscopes come in two varieties: analog and digital(I'll be using a digital scope in this tutorial).

Usually when you make a measurement with an oscilloscope, you will see a line that stretches from one side of the screen to the other this line is actually a graph of voltage vs time (fig 2), where voltage is measured along the y axis and time along the x. Oscilloscopes are useful for looking at very fast changes in voltage over time, things that we could not measure with a multimeter. There are many types of oscilloscopes out there, and each is a little different, so I'm going to focus on the essential components that are found in all oscilloscopes and are the most useful when getting started. This tutorial will guide you through the basics of using an oscilloscope, it is meant for someone with very little or no experience with electronics or oscilloscopes.

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