Re: PSU Ripple Update

On Mon, 18 Mar 2024 01:23:18 GMT, Bertrand Sindri
<bertrand.sindri@yahoo.com> wrote:

In sci.electronics.design Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com> wrote:

On Sun, 17 Mar 2024 16:05:46 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

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You sure you got your probe division/scope division configured
congruently?

 
Yes, it's on 1x @ 5ms.

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The question, which appears to have flown straight over your head, was:
Does the scope setting match the probe you are using?
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I.e., is it a 1X probe (or a switchable probe on the 1X setting)?
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Is the probe 1X, 10X, or some other X?

DC coupling, with zero somewhere low on the screen, would be more
meaningful.

We don't know if that is 1% ripple, or 50%. Or what the DC voltage is.
Or what the regulator drop is.

I like digital scopes, that flag zero and the trigger point.