It is absolutely important to do CAL 06! You should be able to
see the flaws on any high speed square wave input. If you have
a PG506, it will definitely show the flaws.
You can get most of the way there by doing CAL 06, substituting
the PG506 in fast rise mode for the TD pulser. That is what is
done for the slower scopes.
-Chuck Harris
On Thu, 13 Oct 2022 02:41:49 -0700 "NigelP"
<nigel-pritchard@...> wrote:
I guess my next question is.... is it worth re-doing CAL 06 using the
equipment that I do have rather than accepting nominal values?
In the absence of a TD Pulser, I have the following TM50x modules:-
PG506, PG508, TG501 (non-A) and a HP 8657B (sine wave of course).
Would using any one of those improve the set-up beyond the defaults,
or would it be a pointless excercise?
So for example using the PG506 (as specified in the CAL equipment
list) but WITHOUT the TD pulser would I gain any set-up improvement
over any of the default values?
