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  User’s Guide for DS1000CA Series 
 
Understand the Vertical System   
Ⅰ. Settings of the channels 
Each channel of DS1000CA has an operation menu and it will pop up after pressing 
CH1 or CH2 button. The settings of all items in the menu are shown in the table 
below. 
 
Figure 2-1          Table 2-1 The Channel menu (Page 1/2) 
Menu  Settings  Comments 
Coupling 
AC 
 
DC 
 
GND 
Block the DC component of the 
input Signal. 
Pass both AC and DC components 
of the input signal 
Disconnect the input signal. 
BW Limit 
ON 
 
OFF 
Limit the channel bandwidth to 
20MHz to reduce display noise. 
Get full bandwidth. 
Probe 
1X 
5X 
10X 
50X 
100X 
500X 
1000X 
Set this to match the probe 
attenuation factor to make the 
vertical scale readout correct. 
Digital filter    Setup digital filter (See table 2-4). 
 
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Go to the next menu page (The 
followings are the same, no more 
explanation).