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EEVblog #453 - Mysteries of x1 Oscilloscope Probes Revealed

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Dave Jones explains how passive x1 scope probes work and why their bandwidth is far lower than x10; cited when fast signals look wrong through a switchable probe.

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From reading Input Impedance of an Oscilloscope and the video EEVblog #453 - Mysteries of x1 Oscilloscope Probes Revealed, I don't understanding why we add these capacitors in the probe circuitry and make things more complicated.

KMC on electronics.stackexchange.com, May 2020. CC BY-SA.

See [video] for an entertaining video, with the important stuff starting about 10 minutes in.

WhatRoughBeast on electronics.stackexchange.com, Apr 2015. CC BY-SA.

Maybe you have already seen this but if not, have a look at: [video] probably in your case what is bugging you is that the connection from the probe to the scope is not a transmission line and/or it is but it might not be properly terminated.

Bimpelrekkie on electronics.stackexchange.com, Oct 2015. CC BY-SA.

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