Re: Tektronix P5205 diffferential probe

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi Dan and All,

Tonight I actually got a chance to "play" with my new P5205 probe!!  I
works great!!!  It is VERY immune to noise even being next to a few
thousand primary amps!!

I could easily find the gate drive voltage:

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/OLTC10-05-01.gif

Cap voltage:

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/OLTC10-05-02.gif

and primary voltage:

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/OLTC10-05-03.gif

These are waveforms I could not "see" well before 8-)))

I found that my models were working well and some spikes within the OLTC
were well within controllability.  The P5202 is a great tool, although not
a cheap one even at giant discounts like I got ;-))

Tahnks for your input!  It is a great toy to add to my chest ;-))

BTW - Working one getting the OLTC to 240VAC now :-))))

Cheers,

	Terry



At 11:53 PM 9/13/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>
>We use these all the time.  Its probably one of the better differential
>probes on the market.
>They definitely good up to at least 1500 VDC.  We use them all the time over
>1000V.
>
>They have selectable bandwidth, and a selectable range setting (hi/lo).  You
>really can't blow them up
>unless you hook them up to ridiculous voltages.  They are over voltage
>protected and will beep like hell and let you know it!!!
>
>Dan
>
>
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I was thinking of getting a Tektronix P5205 differential probe (no
>worries,
>> ain't gonna pay list price ;-)):
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>> http://www.tek-dot-com/Measurement/Products/catalog/p5210/index.html
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>> I was just wondering if anyone has used one and if you like it and stuff?
>>
>> I was going to use it for OLTC stuff were differential measurements are
>> really nice to have.  I have never used them before and was just wanting
>to
>> be sure they were a good deal thing to have.  I hope they would be
>> reasonably blowup proof and ok to use around 600V primary circuit stuff.
>> Are they "sort of" immune to external noise and all that. Just thought I
>> would ask around ;-))
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Terry
>> terrellf-at-qwest-dot-net
>>
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