Turn a standard oscilloscope into a solder-in one

11 Feb 2022

Turn a standard oscilloscope into a solder-in one

This is a reaction post on baldengineer's excellent Workbench Wednesdays 50: DIY Solder-In Oscilloscope Probes.
There have been several posts here on the community to related to the topic, like this one from shabaz: Building Solderable In-Circuit Oscilloscope Probes (the design that inspired James), Andrew J's solution with ferrules and this one from me: DIY $10 Solder-in Oscilloscope Probe.

I was thinking about a simpler one that uses an off-the-shelf probe, keeps impedance, compensation and x1/x10 intact, and does not destroy the probe. Battle of the probe techniques ...
I came up with this design:

Making it took 7 minutes. Filming a lot more :).
Also kudo's to W2AEW because virtually every technique comes from one of his videos.

Result:

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Jan Cumps over 3 years ago in reply to shabaz +1

I've tagged this for the Circuit Prototype Techniques month. I've just seen that there are good entries for it already .

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shabaz over 3 years ago

Hi Jan,

Nice work, it got me thinking, it would be cool to one day see a Project14 month on say test leads, probes or electrical connecting/clamping ideas. there are probably so many tricks or alternative uses for component wires, connectors, heatshrink!, that people forget about.

Also, I just remembered there's an elastic sleeve that used to be quite popular (I think heatshrink has overtaken it in most scenarios though), that could be an option to keep the wire loop snug.
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Jan Cumps over 3 years ago in reply to shabaz

Maybe it fits in the current project14 prototyping month?
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Jan Cumps over 3 years ago in reply to shabaz

Maybe it fits in the current project14 prototyping month?
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shabaz over 3 years ago in reply to Jan Cumps

Ahh you're totally right.. and out of the box thinking there! : )
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Jan Cumps over 3 years ago in reply to shabaz

I've tagged this for the Circuit Prototype Techniques month.
I've just seen that there are good entries for it already .
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