There are few hobbies that are rising in popularity as fast as home electronics. Every day more people decide that they want to learn about electronics, either to understand the technologies that they encounter every day, or to design their own cool gadgets at home. There are even trained engineers out there who work on prototypes of their own inventions at home with the aim of creating a new device that will one day make it to market.
There are many components that the beginner needs to understand in order to have a good working knowledge of electronics, and one of these is the oscilloscope - an electronic test instrument that allows you to view constantly varying signal voltages.
Oscilloscopes generally display data on voltages as a 2-dimensional graph, with a voltage on its vertical axis, and on the other axis any other parameter that can be converted into a voltage. They show the wave shape of an electrical signal and are vital to many devices in the medical, scientific, engineering and telecommunications industry.
There are many components that the beginner needs to understand in order to have a good working knowledge of electronics, and one of these is the oscilloscope - an electronic test instrument that allows you to view constantly varying signal voltages.
Oscilloscopes generally display data on voltages as a 2-dimensional graph, with a voltage on its vertical axis, and on the other axis any other parameter that can be converted into a voltage. They show the wave shape of an electrical signal and are vital to many devices in the medical, scientific, engineering and telecommunications industry.