Posted Thu, 16 Feb 2023 17:11:55 GMT by Maelbrancke, Gerdy
My 2432A is working fine, except it has a slightly noisy trace. The readouts on the screen are nice and sharp but the trace lines of both channels are a bit noisy, see attached pic. Even when the inpus are grounded it does not change a thing. Any hint where to look to repair this?
Posted Fri, 24 Feb 2023 15:49:18 GMT by W2AEW, Alan Sr. Field Applications Engineer
The 2432A is a 300MHz scope, so it is quite normal to have some noise on the trace with nothing connected at the input.  Since this scope features a digitizer to sample the waveform, the noise appears more apparent than it would from just a live analog trace where the noise would appear muted due to the phosphor glowing brighter in the middle of the trace.

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