Operating instructions

University of Saskatchewan
Electrical Engineering Laboratory Equipment Manual
here are self-explanatory. To move the cursors, use the channel 1 & 2 vertical position controls.
When either the voltage or time cursors are active, the position of each cursor as well as the
difference between them (in either volts or seconds) will be displayed at the right side of the
display. In the case of the time cursors, 1/difference will also be displayed.
Printing
Unlike the HP oscilloscopes, the TDS210 is capable of printing to many different types
of printers with its three different hardware interfaces. To print whatever is displayed on the
screen, you simply press the HARDCOPY
button. However, you must make sure that the
scope is set up properly to use the selected
printer.
The necessary information is found under the Options softkey menu displayed after
pressing the UTILITY menu button.
Three options are then available:
 Hard Copy Setup
 RS232 Setup
 GPIB Setup
Under the Hard Copy Setup menu, you may select the orientation of the printout
(portrait/landscape), the printer format, and the port. Normally you would leave the orientation
set to portrait. If you have connected one of the HP ThinkJet printers, then the format should be
set to ThinkJet. If you have connected the printer to the GPIB port, then the port should set to
GPIB. A few of the HP ThinkJet printers have a centronics interface; you should set the port to
centronics if you use one of these printers. There are also a few Epson-style dot matrix printers
available. The format should be set to Epson and the port set to centronics in the event that you
use one of these printers.
You can print to the HP ThinkJet printers with the GPIB interface using the TDS210
scopes, but they take a very long time to print a waveform. If you choose a printer with a
centronics interface, then printing time will decrease dramatically. Stopping the display from
acquiring new wave forms, ( push Run/STOP ), will decrease printing time.
Under the GPIB setup softkey lies another menu where you can choose the GPIB address
of the scope and the bus connection mode. Two choices are available: off-bus and talk-listen.
Leave it set to talk-listen at all times.
AUTOSET
SAVE/RECALL
MEASURE
ACQUIRE
UTILITY
CURSOR DISPLAY
HARDCOPY RUN/STOP
AUTOSET
SAVE/RECALL
MEASURE
ACQUIRE
UTILITY
CURSOR DISPLAY
HARDCOPY RUN/STOP