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7.5

Capture Setup toolbar

The Capture Setup toolbar controls the time-related or frequency-related settings of

your oscilloscope.

Scope Mode

In scope mode, the toolbar looks like this:

(See below for different versions of the toolbar in spectrum mode and persistence

mode .)

Scope Mode. Sets up PicoScope to operate as an oscilloscope .

Use the Auto Setup button to optimise the settings. If you wish,

you can add a secondary spectrum view from the context menu

(by right-clicking on the scope view).

Persistence Mode. Toggles persistence mode , which allows old

traces to remain on the screen in faded colors while new traces are

drawn on top in brighter colors. The use of colors is controlled by

the Persistence Options dialog. PicoScope will remember any

views that were open, so that you can return to them by clicking

the Persistence Mode button again.

Spectrum Mode. Sets up PicoScope to operate as a spectrum

analyser . Use the Auto Setup button to optimise the settings. If

you wish, you can add a secondary scope view from the context

menu (by right-clicking on the scope view).

Auto Setup. Searches for a signal on one of the enabled input

channels, then sets up the timebase and signal range to display the

signal correctly.

Home. Restores PicoScope to its default settings. Equivalent to the

File > Startup Settings > Load Startup Settings command.

Timebase control. Sets the time represented by a single division of

the horizontal axis when the horizontal zoom control is set to x1.

The timebases available depend on the type of scope device you

are using.

Choosing a timebase of 200 ms/div or slower causes PicoScope to

switch to a different mode of data transfer. The internal details of

this are taken care of by PicoScope, but the slow mode limits the

sampling rate to a maximum of 1 million samples per second.

You can change this control to display the total time across the

scope view, rather than the time per division, using the Collection

Time Units control in the General page of the Preferences dialog

Horizontal zoom control. Zooms the view, in the horizontal

direction only, by the specified amount. Click the and buttons

to adjust the zoom factor, or the button to reset.

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