[sdiy] yard sale find

[Theo]

As long you don't work with high voltages you don't need a 10x probe.
A normal 1X probe is just a shielded wire, nothing special really.
You may use a old "probe" from a multimeter and fit it with a shielded wire,
or if you can live without the shielding, just change the banana to BNC.

Having some BNC to "crocodile" cables around can also be nice.
Again, shielded is best but unshielded also works ok.

There are also ready-made "measurement cables" available: BNC jacks with
two unshielded cables coming out, on the end of each cable sits a IC clip.
Handy and cheap.

For synth and audio stuff it can also be a good idea to make yourself a jack
to BNC cable.
Or even better a kind of Y cable; one side BNC from the scope and on the
other side a Female and Male Jack connector as audio in and outputs.
With this cable you can very easily "insert" your scope in a audio signal
with out opening any thing up.

HTH,
Theo



From: gavin <elmystico at earthlink.net>

> Hi all,
> just scored a mini-oscilloscope for $5 ata yard sale.  Appears to work
but,
> of course, it came with no probes, test leads, whatever you call them.  I
> imagine (hope) these are readily available but can't find them in my
Mouser
> catalog.  Seems like they should even be easy to make.  The connectors to
> the scope are standard BNC jacks.  Anyone have a souce?
> Thanks
> Gavin
>