[sdiy] Probes and Smoke

[Maarten]

Hello Richie,

it happend to me once, the result was a blown fuse and a LED that 
exploded, got really careful after that with the ground probe. The 
10073D probes are expensive, farnell charges 300euro. I rather have not 
such expensive probes, they often got caught between the botom and the 
front panel of a synthesizer and it works like a shear if you open and 
close the front panel. I also have broken leads just above strain relief.
Best,
Maarten


Richie Burnett schreef op 30-4-2015 om 14:51:
> When I saw the subject "Probes and Smoke" I thought it was going to be a
> post about clipping the scope probe ground (earth) clips onto the wrong
> place in a circuit! :-O
>
>> About a year ago I bought a 4 channel Agilent DSOX scope, the scope is
>> great but I don't like the probes that came with it(N2862B - 150Mhz).
>> The quality is not great and they are quite big and heavy. I used to
>> have Hp10071A probes and like them a lot better, but they are hard to
>> find new these days. Can someone recommend some small medium/good
>> quality probes.
>
> Can recommend "10073D Passive Probe, 10:1, 500 MHz, 1.5 m", from HP
> (Agilent), or Keysight... or whatever they're called this week...
>
> -Richie,
>