Specifications

The Oscilloscope at a Glance
One of the first things you will want to do with your new oscilloscope
is to become acquainted with its front panel. Therefore, we have
written the exercises in this chapter to familiarize you with some of its
controls.
The front panel has knobs, grey keys, and white keys. The knobs are
used most often and are similar to the knobs on other oscilloscopes.
The grey keys bring up softkey menus on the display that allow you
access to many of the oscilloscope features. The white keys are
instant action keys and menus are not associated with them.
Throughout this book, the front-panel keys are denoted by a box
around the name of the key, and softkeys are denoted by a change in
the text type. For example,
Source
is the grey front-panel key
labeled source under the trigger portion of the front panel, and
Line
is a softkey. The word
Line
is at the bottom of the display
directly above an unlabeled softkey (which is also grey).
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