User Manual

Acquisition set

Starting and stopping an acquisition

After you have d eﬁned the acquisition and trigger parameters, start acquiring and displaying a waveform with the Run/Stop

or Single controls.

Push Run/Stop to start acquisitions

(button turns green). The oscilloscope

acquires repeatedly until you push the

button again to stop the acquisition, or

push the Single button.

Push Single to take a single acquisition.

Single sets the trigger mode to Norm al

for the single acquisition.

Setting the acquisition mode

Use the a

cquisition mode to set how the oscilloscope uses the sampled data points in each acquisition interval to create

and display a waveform. (See page 25, Acquisition mode concepts.)

1. Push Acquire.

2. Push the Mode side-menu button.

3. Turn the Multipurpose knob to select a mode (Sample, Peak Detect, Hi res, Average), then click the Multipurpose

knob to enable that mode.

4. If you selected Average,usetheMultipurpose knob to select and set how many acquisitions to average to create

the waveform.

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