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Old November 23rd 05, 12:47 AM posted to sci.electronics.basics,sci.electronics.design,rec.radio.amateur.homebrew
Yukio YANO
 
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Default Simple triggered sweep.

Steven Swift wrote:
Greetings.

A short while ago, I posted a request for links to simple triggered
sweeps for older recurrent timebase oscilloscopes. I spent a fair
amount of time looking in old magazines and circuit handbooks, but
didn't find what I thought I was looking for.

So I decided to cobble-up a homebrew of my own. This circuit probably
has been done before, but it met my criterion of being really simple.
I used already on-hand parts, so the design is far from optimum. It
works fine on an Eico 460 up to about 1MHz. No attempt was made to make
a calibrated sweep. You could use a 5v rail and an HC4538 to make a
nice high speed triggered sweep.

Have a look at:

http://novatech-instr.com/Fun/trig.pdf

Thank you to all of you who sent me emails and posted comments on these
boards.

Steve.
Seattle,WA.

It would seem to me relatively easy to replace the horizontal sweep
oscillator with a 555 chip ! and trigger it with a sample of the
vertical Amp. signal !

Yukio YANO