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Old 06-14-2008, 11:24 PM   #295 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by dcb View Post
But it isn't nearly as accurate in terms of time resolution and actual peak voltage identification. Automatic Gain Control will mess with the signal values.
Thanks for the quick response. As usual, I'm learning a lot from you.

I understand that AGC could be a big problem, but I think there are ways of turning it off (depending on the HW and OS). But I hadn't given much thought to the issue of horizontal bandwidth, and I didn't realize that old analog scopes have a ton of it. Thanks for pointing that out.

I also stumbled across a very helpful article here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscilloscope.
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