On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I was just about to say that, but Gene beat me to it. Had an >> interesting discussion on the Tektronix listserv last week about >> exactly the same thing. The shorter the ground lead, the better. If >> you have a ground next to your test points, a short wire wrapped >> around the grounding section on your probe to the ground works the >> best - ie, your grounding lead ends up being about 1" or less in >> length. >> >> Tek used to make a grounding lead the snapped onto the end of the >> probe, and the lead on that was about an inch in length, or maybe >> less. >> >> Mark > > I have some coil springs that wrap around the probe tip, with a leg that > sticks out about the same as the probe tip. PITA to use but they work > really well when you need them. Comes with the 200 mhz rated probes from > MPJones. > > Cheers, Gene
Those are rather handy. The Tek ones slide over the end, have two little crooks to offset the ground lead. I need to find some more of them in some of my other probe sizes. Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
