Re: What's a waveform monitor?

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Original poster: "bob by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <yubba-at-clara-dot-net>

hi marc,

sounds more like a spectrum analyser than a scope i will ask someone  who 
knows about this stuff what it might have been. it sounds a great thing to 
have  for looking at tesla coil waveforms, just to stay on topic. sort of 
thing paul would know about.

cheers

bob




At 16:07 30/11/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Original poster: "marc metlicka by way of Terry Fritz 
><twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <mystuffs-at-orwell-dot-net>
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>Tesla list wrote:
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> > Original poster: "Jim Lux by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" 
> <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>
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> > Waveform monitors don't do transforms.. They're basically oscilloscopes 
> with
> > very limited horizontal settings (i.e. 15.75kHz) and funky calibrations on
> > the graticule.
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>  The true waveform display that i was privy to see, actually showed a
>sweep of the peaks generated by each frequency being generated by the
>tc.
>with a standard scope you can see peak intensity of the spikes as a
>slice, but how do you know at which frequency these are at?
>I admit this is out of my expertise, but the difference astounded me
>between the two.
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>Also the waveform unit i saw in use would calculate a 3d furrier
>transform giving a 6x8 plane with these frequencies shown at the
>position of there magnitude, I was impressed.
>Marc M.
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