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Offline JozefTopic starter

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Never studied this
« on: May 19, 2013, 07:27:03 pm »
Hello

What makes an o'scope probe has higher bandwidth than another? or more generally what makes up a circuit bandwidth? materials? filters? and where does the higher cost for higher bandwidth go?

Thanks a bunch!
 

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Re: Never studied this
« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2013, 08:05:23 pm »
i think dave did a clip on probe impedance and why  high bw probes are x10
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Re: Never studied this
« Reply #2 on: May 20, 2013, 12:31:02 am »
Hello

What makes an o'scope probe has higher bandwidth than another? or more generally what makes up a circuit bandwidth? materials? filters? and where does the higher cost for higher bandwidth go?

Thanks a bunch!

Oscilloscope probe BW is governed primarily by the parasitic capacitance at the probe tip.  You may want to review this video on 10x probes:



Dave did an excellent video recently regarding a tear-down of a 1x/10x probe that goes into even more detail, including the special lossy coax used:



Bandwidth in general is limited by the reactive components (either real or parasitic) in a circuit.  I did a video a while ago that analyzed the low-pass and high-pass frequency corners of a simple common emitter amplifier circuit:



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Offline JozefTopic starter

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Re: Never studied this
« Reply #3 on: May 20, 2013, 04:59:04 am »
Good videos! Thanks!
 


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