Specifications

Chapter 1 Overview RIGOL
DS1000E/D Performance Verification Guide
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Chapter 1 Overview
Test Preparations
The following preparations should be done before the test:
1) Warm-up: warm the oscilloscope up for at least 30 minutes;
2) Self-calibration: calibrate the oscilloscope.
Self-calibration
Before performing self-calibration, make sure that the oscilloscope has been warmed up or running
for 30 minutes.
1) Disconnect the connections of all the channels.
2) Press Utility  Self-Cal，“Press RUN/STOP key to start/Press AUTO key to exit” will be
displayed on the screen and Press RUN/STOP, the oscilloscope starts to execute the
self-calibration program as shown in the figure below:
3) The self-calibration takes about 5 minutes. “Calibration finished/Press RUN/STOP key to exit”,
please restart the oscilloscope after exiting.
4) Press Acquire Acquisition and use to select “Average”. Then, press Averages and use
to set the number of averages to 16.
5) Press down the VERTICAL POSITION knob of each channel respectively to set the vertical
position of the two channels to zero. View the distance between the waveform of each channel
and the screen center at 2 mV/div. when the distance is greater than 0.2div, please perform
self-calibration again until the calibration succeeds (note: make sure that the instrument passes
the self-calibration before performing the performance verification test; otherwise, the test
results might not be accurate).