> I've got a project where we need to watch a pulse on another piece of
> equipment. We do not want to load the circuit in the other piece of
> equipment. Running a piece of coax to my equipment results in
considerable
> ringing, since the coax is not terminated. So, the question comes up,
how
> does a scope probe get away with a 1M load in the scope? I doubt
that's
> terminating the coax with its characteristic impedance. The idea of a
10X
> probe with compensation is pretty clear... the trick is how do they
deal
> with the lack of termination?

Lossy coax


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