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Starting on the HP200CD oscilaltor
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Its the nature of the beast. All digital scopes store the trace as sequence of discrete voltage levels so you get the steps in the trace. If the A/D converter uses more bits for the conversion, the steps get smaller but are always there (quantization error). The raster scan display also contributes as there are a fixed number of pixels available horizontally so you have to display points on the screen in discrete steps. I guess the "bumpy" traces don't bother younger users as they are used to the digital type of display.

Personally, I love the clean waveform display of a good analog scope. I will continue using my older Tek scopes. The ones from the 60's and 70's are my favorites for trace image quality.


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Starting on the HP200CD oscilaltor - by morzh - 02-23-2014, 09:23 PM
RE: Starting on the HP200CD oscilaltor - by morzh - 02-23-2014, 10:28 PM
RE: Starting on the HP200CD oscilaltor - by morzh - 02-23-2014, 11:10 PM
RE: Starting on the HP200CD oscilaltor - by morzh - 02-24-2014, 09:20 PM
RE: Starting on the HP200CD oscilaltor - by morzh - 02-24-2014, 09:27 PM
RE: Starting on the HP200CD oscilaltor - by morzh - 02-25-2014, 11:15 PM
RE: Starting on the HP200CD oscilaltor - by morzh - 02-26-2014, 10:59 AM
RE: Starting on the HP200CD oscilaltor - by morzh - 02-26-2014, 11:04 AM
RE: Starting on the HP200CD oscilaltor - by morzh - 03-01-2014, 10:14 PM
RE: Starting on the HP200CD oscilaltor - by morzh - 03-08-2014, 09:20 PM
RE: Starting on the HP200CD oscilaltor - by morzh - 03-08-2014, 09:24 PM
RE: Starting on the HP200CD oscilaltor - by Mondial - 03-09-2014, 09:44 AM
RE: Starting on the HP200CD oscilaltor - by morzh - 03-09-2014, 10:59 AM
RE: Starting on the HP200CD oscilaltor - by morzh - 03-09-2014, 02:49 PM
RE: Starting on the HP200CD oscilaltor - by morzh - 03-09-2014, 03:33 PM
RE: Starting on the HP200CD oscilaltor - by morzh - 03-09-2014, 04:36 PM
RE: Starting on the HP200CD oscilaltor - by morzh - 03-09-2014, 07:04 PM
RE: Starting on the HP200CD oscilaltor - by morzh - 03-14-2014, 06:59 PM
RE: Starting on the HP200CD oscilaltor - by morzh - 03-14-2014, 10:07 PM
RE: Starting on the HP200CD oscilaltor - by morzh - 03-15-2014, 07:46 PM



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