Agilent Technologies 53181A, Operating Manual

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Chapter 1 Getting Started
Making Measurements
1-12 Operating Guide
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Making Measurements
One of the first things you will want to do with your Counter is to become acquainted
with its front panel. Therefore, we have written the procedures in this section to
familiarize you with some of its controls. The following procedures are provided:
• First you are shown how to turn on the Counter and measure the frequency of a
signal applied to the Counter’s input channels.
• Second, you are shown how to use the input coupling, impedance, and
trigger/sensitivity keys to set the input conditions of Channel 1 to match the
signal being measured.
• Third, you are shown how to scale and offset the measurement result.
• Fourth, you are shown how to set upper and lower limits for measurements.
• Fifth, you are shown how to enable the Counter to compute statistics (such as
standard deviation) and display statistics of measurements.
• Last, you are shown how to use the Run and Stop/Single keys to control
measurements.
The order of the procedures in this chapter is the recommended order for making
measurements with this Counter.