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Topic Title: Oscilloscope shows extreme variation in frequency Topic Summary: Created On: 06 November 2012 06:18 AM Status: Post and Reply |
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Hi I am using a Hameg HMO3522 Oscilloscope. I wanted it to display a 350Mhz RF which I was giving through my Rhodes and Schwarz signal generator but the scope is showing extreme variations in frequency from 9kHz to several Mhz, even the voltage is not being displayed correctly although I performed the probe adjustments etc.
What could be the problem? |
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How are you measuring the frequency?
------------------------- Andy Millar CEng MIET MCMI http://www.linkedin.com/in/millarandy |
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The frequency will be worked out from the voltage waveform (measure period using zero crossing, take inverse), so you need to fix that. At the moment the frequency measurement will be suffering from "garbage in, garbage out".
Get the RF displaying correctly as a sine wave, then apply the measurement to it. ------------------------- Dr Robin Collings MIET |
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I'm also wondering if this is an aliasing issue - there were some advantages to analogue 'scopes!
------------------------- Andy Millar CEng MIET MCMI http://www.linkedin.com/in/millarandy |
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Sounds more like an intermittent failure in the sync circuits - dodgy capacitor ? Oh yes they do !
Ken Green |
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