The Bus Problem Superweapon: The Oscilliscope

By Matthew Scheffel

I had the opportunity to troubleshoot an MS/TP BACnet bus using my Rigol DS1052E oscilloscope. Oscilloscopes are much more useful for bus diagnostics than a multimeter. Although they don’t tell you where the problem physically is, they can immediately confirm that you are in fact looking at a bus fault instead of a software problem…