Topic

probing

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   1 EEVblog #279 - How NOT To Blow Up Your Oscilloscope!

   EEVblog 57 people · 49 months · since May 2013

   Widely cited explanation of why oscilloscope grounds are tied to earth and how careless probing of mains or earthed circuits can destroy the scope.

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   2 #111: How to make a high performance oscilloscope probe socket

   w2aew 5 people · 5 months · since Oct 2014

   w2aew shows how to build a low-inductance scope probe socket into a board; recommended for measuring fast edges and switching spikes without ground-lead ringing.

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   3 Oscilloscope Probe Technique - Ground Spring

   Jan Cumps 5 people · 4 months · since Nov 2019

   Short demonstration of swapping the long probe ground lead for a ground spring; often cited on electronics.stackexchange.com when a noisy scope trace is really a probing artefact.

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   4 #68: Oscilloscope Probe Ground lead length effects on signal quality

   w2aew 4 people · 5 months · since Oct 2014

   A practical demonstration of how the length of a scope probe's ground connection distorts fast edges, cited whenever ringing or probe grounding questions arise.