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Originally Posted by vortalexfan
My Oscilloscope has 3 different probes 2 of them say 10x 100MHz 13pF 10MΩ 2 meter, and the 3rd one says 10x 10pF 10MΩ 2 meter, does anyone know what that's referring to?
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10x means it's a divide by 10 probe. So if you're measuring 10v it will look like 1v per division on the screen. Some scopes have both 1x and 10x positions marked on the volts per division selector. 10X also loads the measured signal less than 1X. The 13 and 10pf are the probes internal capacitance. Those aren't too critical until you're looking at square wave shapes. There's generally a capacitance matching trimmer for each channel input. You may have a calibration square wave terminal on the front panel you can connect the probe to and then you adjust the capacitance trimmer for that channel so the waveshape has square edges. 10M is the probes impedance.
[edit] Actually it's more likely the input capacitance trimmer is in the probe housing. You do have a 1kh calibration signal on the front panel left side.