Every now and then one of my former students contacts me with a question or problem related to a current assignment at his or her job. A few days ago one of my former students suspected that a voltage spike was causing damage to some equipment. He borrowed one of our Tektronix digital oscilloscopes from our lab and caught a picture of the spike. This is supposed to be a 24 volt AC circuit but that spike goes way up past 100 V in just a microsecond. Now the question is what to do about it. It’s interesting to see the measurement theory and techniques we teach get put into practice in industry. (A colorful oscilloscope tutorial can be seen here and a magnum opus tutorial here.)
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