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PicoScope 6 User's Guide 27

5.19

Properties sheet

Location:

Views > View Properties menu command

Purpose:

shows a summary of the settings that PicoScope 6 is using

The Properties sheet appears on the right-hand side of the PicoScope window.

Window. The window function

applied to the data before computing

the spectrum. This is selected in the

Spectrum options dialog .

Time gate. The number of samples

that PicoScope uses to compute a

spectrum is equal to twice the number

of bins. This number of samples is

expressed as a time interval called the

time gate. It is measured from the

start of the capture.

5.20

Custom probes

A probe is any connector, transducer or measuring device that you connect to an

input channel of your scope device . PicoScope has a built-in library of common

probe types, such as the x1 and x10 voltage probes used with most oscilloscopes, but

if your probe is not included in this list you can use the Custom Probes dialog to

define a new one. Custom probes can have any voltage range within the capabilities of

the oscilloscope, display in any units, and have either linear or nonlinear

characteristics.

Custom probe definitions are particularly useful when you wish to display the probe's

output in units other than volts, or to apply linear or nonlinear corrections to the data.

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