User manual

Table of Contents
General safety summary .......................................................................................... iv
Compliance Information ......................................................................................... vii
EMC Compliance............................................................................................ vii
Safety Compliance............................................................................................ ix
Environmental Considerations .............................................................................. xi
Preface ............................................................................................................. xiii
Help System.................................................................................................. xiii
Firmware Updates Through the Internet .................................................................. xiv
Conventions ................................................................................................... xv
Getting Started ............................... .................. ...................... .................. ............. 1
General Features ............................................................................................... 1
Installation...................................................................................................... 2
Functional Check .............................................................................................. 4
Probe Safety .................................................................................................... 5
Voltage Probe Check Wizard ................................................................................. 5
Manual Probe Compensation................................................................................. 7
Probe Attenuation S etting........ .......................................................................... ... 7
Current Probe Scaling ......................................................................................... 8
Self Calibration ................................................................................................ 8
Operating Basics.................................................................................................... 9
Display Area ................................................................................................... 9
Using the Menu System...................................................................................... 12
Vertical Controls .............................................................................................. 13
Horizontal Controls........................................................................................... 14
Trigger Controls............................................................................................... 15
Menu and Control Buttons................................................................................... 15
Input Connectors.............................................................................................. 18
Other Front-Panel Items...................................................................................... 18
Understanding Oscilloscope Functions ......... ........................ ........................ ................ 19
Setting Up the Oscilloscope . .................. .................. ................................ ............ 19
Triggering...................................................................................................... 20
Acquiring Signals............................................................................................. 22
Scaling and Positioning Waveforms ............ ................................................ ............ 23
Taking Measurements ........................................................................................ 25
Application Examples............................................................................................. 29
Taking Simple Measurements ............................................................................... 30
Using Autorange to Examine a Series of Test Points ..................................................... 35
Taking Cursor Measurements ............................................................................... 36
Analyzing Signal Detail...................................................................................... 40
TBS1000 Series Oscilloscopes User Manual i