MCS Test Equipment Ltd

MCS Test Equipment Ltd is one of the leading suppliers of test equipment and support services to the wireless communications industry.

MCS Test Equipment Ltd are the UK distributors for Willtek, Tescom, Schomandl and Litepoint. We offer a wide range of leading edge test equipment products to meet the testing requirements of most wireless and Broadcast standards such as GSM, WCDMA, TETRA, WLAN 802.11, Bluetooth and WiMax 802.16. As well as offering test equipment sales, MCS also has a wide range of rental test equipment and used test equipment available.We provide high quality used test equipment for sale or rental and tailor our services to meet your individual needs.

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Dual Beam Oscilloscope

A dual beam oscilloscope was a type of oscilloscope once used to compare one signal with another. There were two beams produced in special type of CRT. Unlike an ordinary "dual-trace" oscilloscope (which time-shared a single electron beam, thus losing about 50% of each signal), a dual beam oscilloscope simultaneously produced two separate electron beams, capturing the entirety of both signals.

Two vertical plates deflected the beams. Vertical plates for channel A had no effect on channel B beam. Similarly for channel B, separate vertical plates existed which deflected the beam B only.

On some scopes the time base, horizontal plates and horizontal amplifier were common to both beams; on more elaborate scopes like the Tektronix 556 there were two independent time bases and two sets of horizontal plates and horizontal amplifiers. Thus one could look at a very fast signal on one beam and a slow signal on another beam.

Most multichannel 'scopes do not actually have multiple electron beams. Instead, they display only one dot at a time, but switch the dot between one channel and the other either on alternate sweeps (ALT mode) or many times per sweep (CHOP mode). Very few actual dual beam oscilloscopes were built; in these, the electron gun formed two electron beams and there were two sets of vertical deflection plates and one common set of horizontal deflection plates.

With the coming of digital signal capture, true dual beam oscilloscopes became obsolete.

Our success is based upon providing the highest levels of customer service in the test equipment marketplace. Everyone in our technical team has extensive test equipment experience and will provide you free unbiased advice.

We have over 2,000 pieces of new and used test equipment to choose from. If we haven’t got it in stock, we’ll try our very best to source it for you.

Should you wish to look at our test equipment sales or rental services, we will be pleased to help. Our test equipment rates are competitive with the best suppliers in the UK.

Our new Sales and Rental Test Equipment catalogue is now available, If you would like a copy please click here

Test Equipment Products

We are constantly updating our database of test equipment products, click on any of the following manufacturers to browse our latest items:

Acterna/JDSU, Adret, Advantest, Agilent - HP, AH Systems, Amplifier Research, Ando, Anritsu, AOIP, Audio Precision, Austrian Research, Bird, BMI, Boonton, Bruel & Kjaer, California Instruments, CEM, Chauvin Arnoux, Chroma, Climats, Convergie, Divers, Dranetz, Druck, EA, Efratom, EIN, EIP, ELC, Elgar, EM Test, EMCO, Enertec, Exfo, Flir, Fluke, FUG, Fujikura, Furukawa, GE Programma, Gigatronics, GMC, Goerz, Gould Nicolet, Hameg, Hioki, IFR-Aeroflex, Instek, Intec, Itech, Itronix, Kalmus, Keithley, Kepco, Kikusui, Kimo, Kyoritsu, Lambda, LECroy, LEM, Litepoint, Marconi, Mastech, MCP, Metrix, Microlab, Microtest, Milmega, Multimetrix, Narda, NetTest, Niton, Noisecom, Ophir, Panasonic, Philips, PMM, Powerbox, Prolabo, Promax, Protek, Racal, Raytek, Rigol, Rohde & Schwarz, Rotronic, Sample Instruments, Schaffner, Schlumberger, Schomandl, Secasi, Sefelec, Sefram, Solartron, Sony, Sorenson, Spinner, Stanford Research, Sunrise telecom, Svantek, Systron Donner, Tabor, Teac, Tegam, Tektronix, Tescom, Testo, Thomson, Toellner, Trend , TRT, TTI, USB Instruments, Varian, Veriwave, Voltech, Voltsch, Votsch, W/G Acterna, Wavetek, Western Graphtec, Willtek, Xantrex, Yokogawa,

If you are interested in the rental, purchase or lease of a product by a test equipment manufacturer that is not listed above then please contact us.

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