Hey everyone... I've been trolling here for a while and thought I'd pop my head in with a question -
But first off, I thought I'd introduce myself - My name's Dustin... I tinker around with electronics for no other reason than for fun and as a learning experience... Needless to say I'm still learning
I recently acquired a PicoScope digital oscilloscope and waveform generator and am having a blast with it. However I'm not great with it and still don't know how to measure some simple things.
My question is this - I'd like to hook up some transistor circuits on the breadboard and see their gain through my 'scope, but I'm getting inconsistent results - mainly because I don't know where to hook the probes up into the transistor circuit... I'm trying to take the output from the waveform generator, hook it up to the 'scope, and then read the output.
Where should I be hooking the probe and ground clips to in the circuit in order to get "correct" results? That is, if the transistor gain should be X, where do I hook in to see X?
Thanks for your time everyone, and I look forward to contributing here! (or at least benefiting from everyone's collective knowledge and hopefully passing it on elsewhere )
Also, as an afterthought, does anyone know of any good resources on educational experiments to do with an oscilloscopehr I've picked up a few around the web through searches, etc, but my collection is pretty piecemeal.
Thanks again!!
But first off, I thought I'd introduce myself - My name's Dustin... I tinker around with electronics for no other reason than for fun and as a learning experience... Needless to say I'm still learning
I recently acquired a PicoScope digital oscilloscope and waveform generator and am having a blast with it. However I'm not great with it and still don't know how to measure some simple things.
My question is this - I'd like to hook up some transistor circuits on the breadboard and see their gain through my 'scope, but I'm getting inconsistent results - mainly because I don't know where to hook the probes up into the transistor circuit... I'm trying to take the output from the waveform generator, hook it up to the 'scope, and then read the output.
Where should I be hooking the probe and ground clips to in the circuit in order to get "correct" results? That is, if the transistor gain should be X, where do I hook in to see X?
Thanks for your time everyone, and I look forward to contributing here! (or at least benefiting from everyone's collective knowledge and hopefully passing it on elsewhere )
Also, as an afterthought, does anyone know of any good resources on educational experiments to do with an oscilloscopehr I've picked up a few around the web through searches, etc, but my collection is pretty piecemeal.
Thanks again!!