Using my laptop as a cheap oscilloscope using Visual Analyzer 2009 tia sal2

May 27, 2009 1 Replies

Greets All



I plan on Using my laptop as a cheap oscilloscope using Visual Analyzer 2009 does anyone know the amount of current that the mic in port of a laptop can handle (don't want to blow the mic in port) I'll only be measure in the audio range but will be coupling the ac signal with a DC signal. Using this circuit

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I want to see what the signal looks like that comes out of the laser communicator.



Aloha tia sal2


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600 mv pk. I would use a couple of 1n914 diodes in parallel back to front to protect the computer on the computer side of the transformer.

Good day.

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