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

[Scott Gravenhorst]

Let me amend that: not very useful for many audio test
jobs such as signal tracing.  This feature can be very
useful when working with delayed sweep and for testing
digital circuits.  I've never needed it for simple 
troubleshooting of VCOs, VCAs, VCFs, etc.

music.maker at gte.net wrote:
>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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