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Understanding Cathode Ray Oscilloscope (CRO)

CRO, or Cathode Ray Oscilloscope, is an essential electronic instrument that uses an electron gun to produce an electron beam, which creates a visible spot on a phosphor-coated screen. The device includes various components such as power supplies, amplifier circuits, a delay circuit, a time base generator, and a trigger circuit to control the electron beam's position and speed. While traditional analog CROs are common, digital versions are also available in the market.

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Understanding Cathode Ray Oscilloscope (CRO)

CRO, or Cathode Ray Oscilloscope, is an essential electronic instrument that uses an electron gun to produce an electron beam, which creates a visible spot on a phosphor-coated screen. The device includes various components such as power supplies, amplifier circuits, a delay circuit, a time base generator, and a trigger circuit to control the electron beam's position and speed. While traditional analog CROs are common, digital versions are also available in the market.

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CRO stands for Cathode Ray Oscilloscope.

As the electrons emitted from


the cathode which is also called an electron gun that is why it is called
Cathode Ray Oscilloscope. CRO is the most useful electronic instrument.

Block Diagram of CRO

Here the typical block diagram of CRO is given below. Remember that it
shows the analog Cathode Ray Oscilloscope. Nowadays, digital CRO is also
available in the market.

Actually, the CRT or Cathode Ray Tube with some additional circuits is called
CRO which you can see in the above figure.
CRT
1. Inside the CRT, you can see it has an electron gun which is used to
produce the electron beam.

2. The electron beam goes through the Horizontal Deflection plates and
vertical deflection plates and falls upon the phosphor-coated screen.

3. When the electron beam falls upon the screen a bright visible spot is
created.

4. The additional circuits in CRO are used to control the position and strength
of the electron beam using the vertical and horizontal plates

Now, let's discuss each block of the circuits inside the CRO.

Power Supply: First, you can see there are two power supply is taken, one is
a High Voltage(HV) supply and another is the Low Voltage(LV) supply. Here
the low voltage is given to the heater of the electron gun to generate
electrons.

The high voltage is given to the accelerating anode plate to increase the
speed and strength of the electron beam. The low voltage supply also is given
to the other control circuits of the CRO such as amplifier circuits, trigger
circuits, etc.

Amplifier Circuits: The amplifier circuits, horizontal amplifier, and vertical


amplifier are used to create a high voltage DC supply which is required for the
proper deflection. The horizontal deflection plates are connected to the
horizontal amplifier and the vertical deflection plates are connected to the
vertical amplifier.

Delay Circuit: The Delay circuit is used to create delays when the waveform
is displayed on the screen.

Time Base Generator: The Time Base Generator or Sweep generator circuit
is used to control the speed of the electron beam when it just tends to fall
upon the screen.
If high-speed electron beam falls upon the screen it will be not visible that is
why the generator circuit is used to control the speed of the electron beam.
Trigger Circuit: The Trigger circuit is used to switching of the power supply
and to synchronize the horizontal and vertical deflections.

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