scopes [was: how to troubleshoot? ...]

[Scott Gravenhorst]

I have a scope with a Z input... It controls the beam
brightness.  I made a 16 character wide by 16 line display 
(like a small terminal) using a 6800 microprocessor and 
my Eico 460 (and a little outboard circuitry.  The Z input 
is really for special display stuff like I described, not 
really useful for testing in most cases.

Glen <mclilith at ezwv.com> wrote:
>At 01:14 PM 1/15/01 , Happy Harry wrote:
>>The XYZ unit sounds like a vectorscope. I'm not sure what the
>>professional use of these are, I think some kind of video
>>or communication use...
>
>My Hitachi dual channel oscilloscope will let you assign the two input
>channels as "X" and "Y". Then there is an input on the back of the unit
>labeled "Z", which controls the intensity of the beam in response to
>voltage fed into this input. 
>
>Although I've used the "X" and "Y" features. I've never used this "Z input"
>feature. Does anyone know of a good use for it?
>
>Later,
>Glen
>

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