[Amps] help diagnosing a bad 8450a probe ?

Dan Sawyer dansawyer at earthlink.net
Fri Dec 9 09:59:26 EST 2005


Peter -

Thank you. Is there a simple way to match them? I have an old Tek curve 
tracer. Will a simple visual match work?

73 Dan - kb0qil

Peter Chadwick wrote:

> Dan said:
>
> > However one shows a 1V peak to peak distorted sine
> like wave. This probe actually works, however due to the fault it has a
> phase frequency error<
>
> Have you checked the four Schottky diodes in the sampler? I've had 
> funny answers like yours when one of them had died. BTW, you need to 
> replace all four with a matched quad, not change just one.
>
> 73
>
> Peter G3RZP
>
>


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