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TDS 510A Performance Verification and Specifications
1–15
Performance Tests
This section contains a collection of procedures for checking that the
TDS 510A Digitizing Oscilloscope performs as warranted.
The procedures are arranged in four logical groupings: Signal Acquisition System
Checks, Time Base System Checks, Triggering System Checks, and Output Ports
Checks. They check all the characteristics that are designated as checked in
Specifications. (The characteristics that are checked appear in boldface type
under Warranted Characteristics in Specifications.)
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. These procedures extend the confidence level provided by the basic
procedures described on page 1–5. The basic procedures should be done first,
then these procedures performed if desired.
Prerequisites
The tests in this section comprise an extensive, valid confirmation of perfor-
mance and functionality when the following requirements are met:
H
The cabinet must be installed on the oscilloscope.
H
You must have performed and passed the procedures under Self Tests, found
on page 1–5, and those under Functional Tests, found on page 1–7.
H
A signal-path compensation must have been done within the recommended
calibration interval and at a temperature within
±
5
_
C of the present
operating temperature. (If at the time you did the prerequisite Self Tests, the
temperature was within the limits just stated, consider this prerequisite met.)
H
The oscilloscope must have been last adjusted at an ambient temperature
b20
_
C and +30
_
C, must have been operating for a warm-up
period of at least 20 minutes, and must be operating at an ambient tempera-
ture b5
_
C and +50
_
C. (The warm-up requirement is usually met
in the course of meeting the Self Tests and Functional Tests prerequisites
listed above.)