Sprung Hooks
You will see a gray line (shown as black in the picture
below) with an arrow pointing towards it on the barrel of
your N287XA Series probe. This is used as a marker to tell
you when you have pushed the sprung hook completely
onto the probe. When inserting the sprung hook onto the
probe barrel, push until you feel it lock onto the ridge (see
Figure
"lock on" to the probe, the accessory may fall off or suffer a decrease in perfor-
mance. If the sprung hook is correctly attached then the gray marking line should
be covered when the hook is fully extended
Figure 4
15 cm Ground Lead
BNC Adapter
Both the rigid and spring-loaded probe tips are compatible with
this adapter.
Keysight N2870A-Series and N2894A Passive Probes User's Guide
4). If you do not push the sprung hook to this point so it can engage and
Ridge Location on Probe
This ground lead can be used to reach grounding loca-
tions that are farther away from the probing location
than can be reached by either the ground blade or
ground spring. However, the longer lead means it has
a larger inductance in the ground return path which
corresponds to a lower performance than these other
two grounding accessories.
Accessories
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