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Old 02-08-2010, 12:05 AM
Waffles Waffles is offline
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Default Dont know how this graph from the oscilloscope is scaled



I do not know how this is scaled. The circuit is a forward biased diode with a resistor in series, hooked up to a voltage source of a sin wave with the voltage peak at 1.3v. The graph is the voltage across the resistor with respect to the diode.

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Old 02-08-2010, 03:46 AM
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It's impossible to tell. The color coding implies that the vertical amplifier's gain is at 200 mV per division, but you don't know if the input is being attenuated through a probe or not. The best you can probably do is assume it's 200 mV per division and be cognizant that you might be off by a factor of 10.
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