Oscilloscope training

Oscilloscope training
Date	2013/04/08
Time
Location	ACTA
Type	Workshop
Contact	User:Chotee

From 19:00 onwards, expected to last an hour or so.

Goal of the training is to beable to properly use the Oscilloscopes in the space. Understanding the (basic) 'scope use while not being a danger to either the scope or yourself.

Although everybody is welcome to attend. The experience level expected that you know how to handle a regular multimeter (basic knowledge of electricity, ohms law, frequencies, etc.)

At the training the space will probably have 3 scopes, 2 analog and 1 Digital.

An interesting aspect might be that you will hear different sounds, and visualize how they look on the screen of an oscilloscope. You will hear and see different waveforms like a sine wave, triangle, block wave, noise, etc.
I will also, but that is a somewhat more advanced topic, try to show you how to use the two channels of the scope in um... differential mode, so channel 1 will draw the X axis, and channel 2 will draw the Y axis. We then can make cute pictures on screen. Ultratux 03:11, 4 April 2013 (CEST)

As a source of interesting waveforms, I plan to bring an AC full-wave rectifier on a breadboard so we can see the effects of the diodes and capacitors. If I find time to prepare it, I also plan to bring a simple IC 555 based circuit to experiment with. Chotee 00:09, 5 April 2013 (CEST)

Signup List

If you feel the need, add your name below, so that we can have an idea of the number of people attending:

• Chotee
• phicoh
• Wally
• mariejel
• ultratux
• ZTiK (sitting quietly in the back & listening, I do not meet requirement: 'The experience level expected that you know how to handle a regular multimeter')
• realitygaps (some basic multimeter understanding but not much experience either)
• gruzlor