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hex4def6today at 7:10 PM1 replyview on HN

Agreed.

For such low frequency stuff, it feels way safer to just buy a cheap <$500 scope for this kind of work. Using a $50k scope when it's not needed just seems needlessly risky.

Also, float the DUT, not the scope... Sometimes that's not possible, and the temptation is there, but it's really not worth it. Just buy the right gear like a diff probe. You can get one for a few hundred bucks if you don't mind going downmarket.

You can also use two probes and do CH2 - CH1. (Disconnect the GND clips!)


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Aurornistoday at 7:58 PM

> For such low frequency stuff, it feels way safer to just buy a cheap <$500 scope for this kind of work. Using a $50k scope when it's not needed just seems needlessly risky.

They should have spent $300 on a differential probe.

The higher end scopes can have some nice power analysis packages.