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standalone sampling head use


 

I can stick a 1S2 into a 132 power supply and use the 1S2 with a Rigol scope, for example. For the 560-series there's the 129, but it's quite large, rare, and seems to need more stuff before I can use a S-6 by itself for example. Is there another way to use 3S series plugins and heads without a 560 mainframe?


 

yes anything is possible but perhaps not worth the effort.

Suggest that you first Read up on sampling:
Tektronix Circuit Concepts books at W140,



sampling circuits


sampling scope application and use




As the mentioned plugins are 50 yrs old, check the specs, as most modern digital scopes can give better result.
The BW avail today goes beyond 1 GHz....

Bon chance


Jon


 

Why would you suggest that? I already know that. I want to know if there's something like a 129 but smaller, as I asked in my post.


 

Tekwiki shows the 285 power supply and 286 multiplexer.? The 285 looks like just a power supply so probably intended to use with an S50 or S52 pulse generator.

Roger


 

Thanks! You wouldn't happen to have one for sale, or know of one?


 

The power supplies you mention only make sense for straight analog plug-ins. If you want to create a sampling 'scope front end, you need a vertical input *and* a special time base.
Devices like a 1S2 and a correctly configured 7S12 (for 7000-series mainframes) contain both. They are special-purpose devices because they are intended to be used in TDR applications. They contain/need a sampling head and a pulser.

Just adding a power supply to a sampling head, like an S-6, won't do. In order to use an S-6 you need a separate trigger facility as well, since it does not have a "trigger pickoff". The S-4 does.

A classic sampling system uses something like what is called "equivalent time sampling" in modern 'scopes: Samples are collected over many sweeps and the samples together produce the image, so no such thing as a fast one-shot acquisition.
A system like this only works with said (or equivalent) special time base.

In short: "I can stick a 1S2 into a 132 power supply and use the 1S2 with a Rigol scope" is not what it takes.

A general purpose sampling system (for the 7000 series, I'm not familiar with 500-family options) as a minimum consists of one 7S1 vertical input module, containing a sampling head like an S-6 or S-4, and a 7T11(A) time base. The 7S11 and 7T11 are connected directly (not via backplane only) to make things work.

Once you configure a sampling system like this, over 11 or even 14GHz bandwidth is your reward, not a meagre 1GHz or so.

Raymond


 

On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 07:44 PM, Raymond Domp Frank wrote:
as a minimum consists of one 7S1 vertical input module
..... as a minimum consists of one 7S11 vertical input module .....

Raymond


 

In short: "I can stick a 1S2 into a 132 power supply and use the 1S2 with a Rigol scope" is not what it takes.

Just realized I made a mistake here: you¡¯re not talking about putting a sampling head or complete vertical plugin into a PS but a complete sampling system, since the 1S2 is just that.?
Sorry about this!

Raymond