Acquisition setup
Starting and stopping an acquisition
After you have de
fi
ned the acquisition and trigger parameters, start acquiring and displaying a waveform with the
Run/Stop
or
Single
controls.
Push
Run/Stop
to start acquisitions
(button turns green). The oscilloscope
acquires repeatedly until you push the
button again to stop the acquisition, or
push the
Single
button.
Push
Single
to take a single acquisition.
Single sets the trigger mode to
Normal
for the single acquisition.
Setting the acquisition mode
Use the
acquisition mode
to set how the oscilloscope uses the sampled data points in each acquisition interval to create
and display a waveform. (See page 25,
1.
Push
Acquire
.
2.
Push the
Mode
side-menu button.
3.
Turn the
Multipurpose
knob to select a mode (
Sample
,
Peak Detect
,
Hi res
,
Average
), then click the
Multipurpose
knob to enable that mode.
4.
If you selected
Average
, use the
Multipurpose
knob to select and set how many acquisitions to average to create
the waveform.
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