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Acquiring and Displaying Waveforms
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TDS 500C, TDS 600B, & TDS 700C User Manual
To change the InstaVu display style, do the following steps:
1. Press DISPLAY ➞ Mode (main) ➞ InstaVu (pop-up) ➞ Style (main).
2. Select between Vectors and Dots in the side menu. (Dots display is the
factory default setting.)
3. Select between Infinite Persistence and Variable Persistence in the side
menu. (Variable Persistence is the factory default setting.)
4. Use the general purpose knob or keypad to adjust the persistence time (decay
rate) if you have selected Variable Persistence.
To change the InstaVu readout options, do the following steps:
1. Press DISPLAY ➞ Mode (main) ➞ InstaVu (pop-up) ➞ Readout
Options (main).
2. Toggle Display T Trigger Point, Trigger Bar Style and Display Date/
Time in the side menu to the settings desired.
Several modes/features are unavailable when InstaVu mode is selected:
H FastFrame, Limit Testing, Extended Acquisition, XY display, and Zoom
modes
H Envelope, Average, Hi Res, and Single Acquisition Sequence acquisition
modes and Autosave mode
H Intensified time base
H Record lengths longer than 500 samples
H Interpolation (equivalent time sampling is used instead)
H Vectors when in equivalent time mode (waveforms are displayed as Dots
instead). (To determine under what conditions the oscilloscope normally
interpolates or uses equivalent time, see Selecting Repetitive Sampling on
page 3–34.)
To Set the InstaVu Style
To Set the InstaVu
Readout Options
Incompatible Modes