Re: Distorted Sine Wave

On Sat, 1 Jun 2024 15:44:17 +0200, Jeroen Belleman wrote:
 

On 6/1/24 14:07, Cursitor Doom wrote:

 

I've taken a shot of the waveform into the 50 ohm input. It's around
850mV peak-peak. Hopefully the slight distortion I spoke about is
visible; the slightly more leisurely negative-going excursions WRT
their positive-going counterparts. So it's not a pure sine wave as one
would expect. Does it matter? I don't know!
 
https://disk.yandex.com/i/7cuuBimDbOIBZw

 
The shape looks perfectly acceptable to me. This is +3dBm into 50 Ohms.
Is that what it's supposed to be? Canned reference oscillators most
often deliver +13dBm, sometimes +10dBm.

 
Is it? I only make it about half your figure: +1.65dBm.
I admit I'm frequently prone to careless errors, so stand to be corrected,
but here's my method:
850mV peak to peak is 425mV peak voltage. Average of that is 0.425x0.636 =
0.27V. Average power is average volts squared divided by the load
impedance of 50 ohms = 1.46mW = +1.65dBm.
 
I shall consult the manual to see what it ought to be - if I can find it,
that is, as PDF manuals are a nightmare to navigate IME.