Powerscope is an instrument used for displaying power circuit waveforms while analyzing high voltage areas. It has features like a wide measurement range, compact design, light weight, and safety provisions. The input signal is attenuated before being amplified. It has two channels that are switched at 100KHz. The vertical and horizontal deflection systems provide calibrated sweeps from 50mV/div to 500V/div and 0.5s/div to 0.2s/div respectively. Triggering can be from internal, external or line sources. Powerscopes are useful for measuring power, efficiency and transients that regular oscilloscopes cannot.
What is Powerscope
Powerscopeis an intrument
used for display power circuit
waveforms,while analyzing
high voltage areas the
powerscope is extremely
useful tool.
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Some features ofPowrscope
Wide range of measurement
Compact Design
Light Weight
High degree of equipment
and operator safety
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More safety provisions
ChannelsGround and body ground are isolated
to each other
Attenuator provision for high voltage
Precise line triggering for stable waveforms
Same as CRO
OPERATION OF POWERSCOPE
OPERATIONOF POWERSCOPE
OPERATION OF POWERSCOPE
(1.) The input signal is attenuated by a factor of 20 with the help of
the input attenuator. The amplifier is capable of producing a
sensitivity of around 50mV/div or 200mV/div.
(2.) A matched pair of FET amplifier, which operates as a source
follower comprises the input stage. It provides the current gain
required to drive the main amplifier.
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(3.) The traceis switched between the two channels at a rate of
100KHz in the alternate and chop modes. The ALT or CHOP mode
are automatically selected by the time/div control.
(4.) The vertical deflection system provides calibrated deflection
which vary from 50mV/div to 200mV/div for both the channels. By
using variable control the range can be extended up to 500V/div.
(5.) The stable sweep triggering is done by the trigger circuit which
extends beyond the bandwidth of the vertical deflection system.
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(6.) The bandwidthfor DC mode is DC to 15 MHz and the
bandwidth for AC is 2Hz to 15 MHz in 12 ranges.
(7.) The calibrated sweep rates of the horizontal deflection
system varies from 0.5 s/div to 0.2
(8.) Automatic triggering or level triggering can be achieved by
INT>EXT or LINE sources.
(9.) The variable sweep control provides continuous reduction of
the sweep rate.
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(10.) To eliminatethe distortions caused by the variations in the line
voltage, the regulated DC power supplies are used.
(11.) By using a TV synchronous circuit, the television signal can be
filtered, LINE and FREME pulses can be observed and so
troubleshooting of TV is useful in some applications.
(12.) The output signals from channel Y1 and Y2 are connected to the
storage oscilloscope.
(13) It also provides additional features like XY mode, Z
intensity modulation, probe compensation.
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Y - shift
Coupling:DC, AC, and GND
Volts/div
VAR
Y input
A basic oscilloscope consists of three different systems – the
verticalsystem,horizontalsystem, and triggersystem.
1. Vertical System:
Powerscope Control panel
Importance of powerscope
Itenables users to measure power, efficiency,
transient responses and many parameters that
cannot be measured by available instruments.
Like a traditional oscilloscope are not designed to
measure power.
Example of a powerscope : PX8000