Operating Basics
1. The acquisition readout shows when an acquisition is running or stopped.
Icons are:
Run: Acquisition enabled
Stop: Acquisitions not enabled.
2. The trigger position icon shows the trigger position in the acquisition. Turn
the Horizontal Posit
ion knob to adjust the position of the marker.
3. The trigger status readout shows:
Armed: The oscilloscope is acquiring pretrigger data. All triggers are ignored
in this state.
Ready: All pretrigger data h as been acquired and the oscilloscope is ready to
accept a trigger.
Trig’d: The oscilloscope has seen a trigger and is acquiring the posttrigger
data.
Stop: The oscilloscope has stopped a cquiring waveform data.
Acq. Complete: The oscilloscope ha
s completed a Single Sequence
acquisition.
Auto: The oscilloscope is in auto mode and is acquiring waveforms in the
absence of trigger.
Scan: The oscilloscope is acquiring and displaying waveform data
continuously in scan mode.
4. The center graticule readout shows the time at the center graticule. The
trigger time is zero.
5. The trigger level icon shows the Edge or Pulse Width trigger level on the
waveform. The icon color corresponds to the trigger source color.
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