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HEWLETT-PACKARD JOURNAL T E C H N I C A L I N F O R M A T I O N F R O M T H E - h p - L A B O R A T O R I E S Vol. 7 No. 8 JBLISHED BY THE HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY, 275 PAGE MILL ROAD, PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA APRIL, 1956 A New DC -10 MC Oscilloscope with Dual -Trace and High -Gain Preamplifiers THE second of the new -hp- oscilloscopes is common waveforms so that sweep adjust designed as a wide-range dc-10 megacycle ments are reduced to a minimum. measuring instrument with many electrical and 1 Trigger level and slope controls permit mechanical features that give it a high order of selection of trigger point. performance and ease of use. In addition, flex ' The sweep can be expanded 1 00 times to ibility has been assured by designing the instru give an effective sweep length of 1 ,000 cm. ment to use plug-in vertical preamplifiers A multi-turn positioning control permits which increase the variety of measurements any 1 0-cm portion of the expanded sweep that the oscilloscope can make. Two such pre to be displayed. amplifiers are presently available: a dual-chan ' Panel lamps automatically indicate when nel dc-10 megacycle 50 millivolt /cm preampli the sweep magnifier is used and when the fier which is arranged to permit either simul fastest calibrated sweep is exceeded. taneous or single display of its two channels; 1 The oscilloscope has a single-sweep provi and a high-gain dc-10 megacycle 5 millivolt/ sion which is further designed so as to be cm single-channel preamplifier. electronically re-armable from an external Other leading features of the new design are: delay generator to obtain a delayed trig * Controls are functionally grouped and are gered sweep. unusually simple for an oscilloscope of this ' The probes supplied have a slim, pen class.