Common Procedures ML248xA / ML249xA
13000-00162 5-27
September 2005
Entering the Triggering Capture Time
The capture time represents the amount of data displayed on the screen at any one time.
If a positive value is entered at the “Delay” item, the capture time will commence once the
specified delay has been reached.
1. Press the Channel hard key to display the [Channel] group of commands.
2. Press the Trigger soft key to display the [Trigger] menu and then press the
Set Cap Time.. soft key to display the screen shown below.
3. Specify the capture time using either of the methods below.
• Use the Inc and Dec soft keys to increment or decrement the displayed value
by the amount specified from System > Config > Set Inc/Dec Steps .
• Press the [Sel] key on the numeric keypad and enter a value as described in the
previous chapter. Press the required units from the soft key when the required
time has been set.
Note: The capture time setting determines the effective sampling rate. Details of this are
given in the table below.
Capture time ML248xA Sampling
rate
ML249xA Sampling
rate
50 ns to 3.19 µs (#1)
N/A RRS
(#1)
3.2 µS to 4.09 ms
64 MS/s 62.5 MS/s
4.1 ms to 8.19 ms 32 MS/s 31.25 MS/s
8.2 ms to 16.38 ms 16 MS/s 16 MS/s
(#1) Available for ML249xA only.