I've grown to know and trust my P6139A probes over the years, but my students are hell on probes, and I find I have to replace a bunch every year. And at $400 a pop, it's a significant budget item. I trust your opinions; is there a magical probe out there with similar performance (500 MHz, 10 MOhm, 8pF) and a somewhat lower price tag? Thanks, Jim MacA.
It seems ecrunch has them at 160$ to 175$ each. Mind the wrapped url.
Regards Werner
I always use these:
They can also be bought in pairs (with less accesoires):
There is no sense in trying to measure anything over 100MHz with a 10M probe anyway.
-- Failure does not prove something is impossible, failure simply indicates you are not using the right tools... nico@nctdevpuntnl (punt=.) --------------------------------------------------------------
I've used Probe Master probes and didn't have any problems with their regular probes. I think they were shorter than the Tek probes they replaced. I didn't like probe masters differential probe.
I have a set of active fet probes I don't think I've ever used myself.
Got them with the scope. Maybe I should sell ?
Jamie
If they are decent you better keep them. At some point you may need them and you'll be sorry you sold them.
-- Failure does not prove something is impossible, failure simply indicates you are not using the right tools... nico@nctdevpuntnl (punt=.) --------------------------------------------------------------
Does Tek still sell just the cable for around $30 ? When I used those probes on the 3034 scope at work I'd eventually have a cable failure. I can't tell you how many times I repaired the ground pigtails and would replace them when they got too short.
G=B2
The ground pigtails are crappy. I've repaired a few. I never had to repair them on the cheaper probes I buy.
-- Failure does not prove something is impossible, failure simply indicates you are not using the right tools... nico@nctdevpuntnl (punt=.) --------------------------------------------------------------
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