the TA131 has a box next to the BNC connector that I presume is where the HF compensation is locked in at the factory, because that's where other brands have their HF adjustment.
the TA125 has no such box. is it not compensated? does it not need to be compensated? i imagine the compensation would have to change depending on what you connect the banana plugs to, so i'm confused.
Don't get too concerned about probe compensation for automotive work .
Car fault finding is exclusively at the lower end of the frequency range and connections are normally made using simple test lead wires not an oscilloscope probe.
Although they good for bench work I avoid using pen style oscilloscope probes for on vehicle work as it would be very easy to cause a short or a ground loop.
If you buy a simply generic probe LF compensation is an adjustment screw on the probe handle. Compensation is simply connecting he probe on to square wave output and adjusting until the scope shows a nice 90 degree cornered square trace.
Unless you are using an expensive HF probe which is really only required for accurate measurements on telecomunications and computer equipment the probe won't have any way to adjust the HF compensation.
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i'm actually using the Hantek IDSO1070A that has the 10x attenuation probes included with the HF adjustment at the BNC connection and I am trying to figure out if using the HT30A banana plug adapter (uncompensated) that you can get for this scope is going to get me similar waveforms to the TA125.
