Operating instructions

University of Saskatchewan
Electrical Engineering Laboratory Equipment Manual
Display, Measurements and Printing
The Display menu button brings up the following items:
 Display Mode normal / peak detect / average
 Grid off/on
These items are self-explanatory, except perhaps for the peak detect mode. This is a
specialized display mode that is useful in identifying glitches in the waveform(s) you are
examining. These signal extremes are identified and saved if the time/div is set longer than 50
s/div. At lower time/div settings, this display mode is disabled.
When the average display mode is selected, a new softkey selection to choose the number
of waveforms to average is displayed. The choices are 8/64/256.
The Print / Utility menu button brings up the following items:
 Print Screen
 HP-IB Menu
 Clear Menu
 Self Test Menu
 Self Calibration Menu
The only options you should be concerned with are print screen and the HP-IB menu.
Print screen is self-explanatory. You must connect a printer to the scope via the HPIB connector
on the rear of the scope, and the printer must be on and online. The entire display will be printed
when the print screen button is pressed.
Pressing the HP-IB Menu softkey will bring up another menu with the following items:
 Connect to computer / HP print / HP plot
 Factors off/on
 Resolution low/high
 Address
 Previous menu
Obviously you would select connect to HP print if the scope was connected to a printer.
If you connect it to a computer, then you would select computer. The instrument’s address is
displayed above the address softkey. Pressing that softkey increments the address by 1. Possible
addresses are 0 – 30.
Voltage
Time
Cursors
Trace
Setup
Measure
Save / Recall
Auto -
scale
Display
Print
Utility
Voltage
Time
Cursors
Trace
Setup
Measure
Save / Recall
Auto -
scale
Display
Print
Utility