Re: Using an oscope as a monitor

Try putting trigger on LINE. Not really ideal, but scope may be blanking
and this would give it something to trigger on to force it to unblank.
On Oct 20, 2013 2:18 PM, "Joel Griffin Dodd" <griffindodd@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks guys, I managed to get this, but only by continuously holding down
> find beam...
>
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/57qhj420d7yydxo/Star%20Wars%20lives.mp4
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 11:05 AM, IAN EURE <ieure@mac.com> wrote:
>
>> On Oct 20, 2013, at 10:12 AM, Joel Griffin Dodd <griffindodd@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > I'm tryjng to use my oscope as a vector monitor to check my star wars
>> boards.
>> >
>> > For those of you that do this coild you tell me your settings. I have a
>> 100mhz 2 channel tektronix 2337 and 1x - 10x 100mhz probes.
>> >
>> > I set the scope to XY input and see the trigger light on but can't seem
>> to get any image. I have plenty of activity on my x and y outs on my board.
>> Also do I ground my probes to the board when doing this
>> >
>> Yes, if your probes have the ground clips, you need to put those onto
>> ground test loops. I don't know about Star Wars, but there are a few ground
>> test loops around the vector output section of Tempest boards.
>>
>> Otherwise, most Tek scopes have a banana plug where you can plug in a
>> ground, you can connect that to any ground on the PCB.
>>
>> Without ground, you will get an image, but it will be distorted and move
>> around instead of steady.
>>
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