IF your scope is well calibrated you can use it for many d-c measurements as well.
Whenever I'm adjusting a level for a peak or minimum reading, audio or dc, I prefer my scope instead of a DMM because the scope is instantaneous and provides an analogue (moving trace) instead of a digital readout, even though my DMM provides a "bar" indication below the numbers to emulate something approaching an analog display. Of course, the scope is ideal for such adjustments at RF as well as Don mentioned. Indeed, my scope gets used to provide me an analogue display for setting a signal level as much as any other use. If I could only have one piece of test equipment to troubleshoot something, it would be my 'scope. (Don't forget to convert the RMS values given for a-c measurements to peak-to-peak as Don mentioned.) One bane of digital displays is that they often provide a false sense of accuracy and lead the unwary into thinking their digital "exactness" is important or even desirable. It's almost never important to whether a voltage is 4.12V or a "bit over 4 volts". I will confess to being one of the early adopters of digital watches decades ago, but I soon replaced it with a round faced pulsar. I had no interest in learning that it was 9:56 a.m. when all I wanted to know was that it was "almost 10". 73, Ron AC7AC -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of VE3WDM Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2013 2:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K2 alignment and test part 2 Don thanks very much for taking the time to get back to me and I will use the scope for the procedures you indicated. Mike -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/K2-alignment-and-test-part-2-tp7577391p 7577395.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
