HP 54616B User And Service Manual page 12

The Oscilloscope at a Glance
One of the first things you will want to do with your new oscilloscope
is to become acquainted with its front panel. Therefore, we have
written the exercises in this chapter to familiarize you with the
controls you will use most often.
The front panel has knobs, grey keys, and white keys. The knobs are
used most often and are similar to the knobs on other oscilloscopes.
The grey keys bring up softkey menus on the display that allow you
access to many of the oscilloscope features. The white keys are
instant action keys and menus are not associated with them.
Throughout this book, the front-panel keys are denoted by a box
around the name of the key, and softkeys are denoted by a change in
the text type. For example, is the grey front-panel key
Source
labeled Source under the trigger portion of the front panel, and
Line is a softkey. The word Line appears at the bottom of the
display directly above its corresponding softkey.
Figure 1-1 is a diagram of the front panel controls and input
connectors.
Figure 1-2 is a status line example. The status line, located at the top
of of the display, lets you quickly determine the setup of the
oscilloscope. In this chapter you will learn to read at a glance the
setup of the oscilloscope from the status line.
Figure 1-3 is a diagram showing which grey keys to press to bring up
the various softkey menus.
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