Lecroy LP142

The Lecroy LP142 oscilloscope is a graph displaying device, it draws a graph of an electrical signal.

In most applications, the graph shows how signals change over time the vertical (Y) axis represents voltage and the horizontal (X) axis represents time. The intensity or brightness of the display is sometimes called the Z axis.

The Lecroy LP142's simple graph can tell you many things about a signal, such as the time and voltage values of a signal, the frequency of an oscillating signal, the moving parts of a circuit represented by the signal, the frequency with which a particular portion of the signal is occurring relative to, other portions, whether or not a malfunctioning component is distorting the signal, how much of a signal is direct current (DC) or alternating current (AC) and how much of the signal is noise and whether the noise is changing with time.

The Lecroy LP142 is a New Literunner Digital Oscilloscope which is easy to carry and fits very easily onto crowded workbenches.

The LP142 Operates at 500 MS/s sampling rate with 100 MHz analog bandwidth. Each channel has a long 100 kpoints acquisition memory.

The LP142 provides high accuracy as Vertical accuracy is within 2% and horizontal accuracy is 50 ppm (0.005%). Two horizontal cursors and vertical cursors let you measure voltage difference (delta V), time difference (delta t), frequency (1/delta t), and V at t for a specific waveform.

The waveform or display data can be output automatically to a specified device (built-in printer, ATA card, or floppy disk). The LP142 is simple to use which provides 13 automatic measurements with features like triggers, floppy, internal printer and interfaces to external devices.

A help menu explains the various menu functions. Useful for beginners or for advanced users needing to know what a particular function does.

Input signal frequency can be shown in five digits. No more guessing about signal
aliasing. Wide range of triggers, including event triggers (count/burst/extra/missing) and TV triggers (NTSC/PAL/SECAM).

Using the equivalent sampling method, the time resolution is increased up to 40 ps
(equivalent to 25 GS/s). Totally, the LP142 is a great value device with lots of information at an amazingly low cost.