Lesson 1: Survey of Essential Test Equipment

Lesson 1 begins with an overview of the four primary pieces of test equipment used in today’s engineering teaching labs including a digital multimeter (DMM), DC power supply, function generator, and oscilloscope.

#oscilloscope #dmm #powersupply #functiongenerator #oscilloscopebasics #oscilloscopefundamentals

[Nets-nutsBr]

Hi Mr. Hancock. I've just finished to watch all of your 18 lessons about oscilloscope. They are very clear and detailed. It is amazing be learning with you and I really appreciate your classes. Thank you. Of course I'll be reading your papers as well. Thank you Keysight for sponsoring such initiative.

[HaskellMoore]

I've thoroughly enjoyed this series, and like the way the lessons were broken down into specific topics. I've been a ham for over 30 years, and dabbled in electronics since the first grade. I just purchased a new oscilloscope for myself this Christmas, and this has been extremely useful in understanding how to get the most out of these amazing devices. Well done!

[robertjennings]

It's been years since I graduated from Engineering school in 1983. I'm retired now and want to pick up a small oscilloscope and glad I found this series.

[glasslinger]

Neat to see how the RICH guys fill up their test bench! I did justify the $2000 for the scope, but I can't justify that for a power supply or DMM. Too many very nice equivalents now available for under a fourth the price of the Keysight models. Spending a few hundred on an instrument is WAY different than spending a few thousand!

[DrFrank-xjbc]

These will be very interesting upcoming lectures, and you presented this one in a very nice style!
That reminded me of my own time as a student in Physics, where I also bought and used a lot of such T&M equipment for our experiments, preferably from Hewlett Packard, of course. In 1989, for my PhD studies, I were even allowed to buy an HP3458A, probably being one of the first users of this fine instrument.

[robbieaussievic]

.... We still use carrier pigeons with USB thumb drives to resolve internet URL's in Australia too !.
Thanks Johnnie, you add 'Class' to these presentations. Articulate, entertaining, contagious enthusiasm.

[sofianetidjani]

❤❤you are such a gifted lecturer I would like to express my gratitude

[muhammadshihabi]

Thank you, and for Keysight for making these videos available

[warrengreen]

Great stuff... looking forward to rest of the series. Thx man!

[yurij]

Try measuring VAC with a handheld DMM for a sine wave above 10Khz. You will get a value near zero regardless of voltage. Hand helds have their limits.

[POLMAZURKA]

show/explain about grounds/etc/floating scopes

[petermikus]

While i agree with you on most points.
And keysight does make great equipment i would never recomend it to a student that will buy them from their own pocket. You can get much more capable and cheaper instruments from Siglent or Rigol anytime nowadays (talking about lower end mainl) these beatufful r channel 100Mhz 1Gs/s O-Scopes sometimes for less than 400$ while you'r cheapest offering is 2 channel and 50 Mhz Not even gonna talk about other equipment. If i were spending big and looking for highend? Definetly Keysight, Fluke and Tektronix but for budget? I would loom towards Rigol and Siglent.

[petermikus]

But toher than that this is a helpfull series

[jonsnow]

i wish my dad was a multibillionaire heheheheh i wouild buy the full set

[niceguy]

Are you joking, an Oscilloscope is child play to fully understand compared to a spectrum analyzer and VNA

[hopolo]

good info. i'll give the speaker a pass for saying "acrosst" cuz he's from a generation of rampant naivete.