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- Page 1 , a product of Lilliput VDS6000 Series PC Oscilloscopes (VDS6102/A, VDS6152/A) User Manual www.owon.com.cn...
- Page 2 Copyright © Lilliput. All rights reserved. Licensed software products are owned by Lilliput or its subsidiaries or suppliers, and are protected by national copyright laws and international treaty provisions. OWON products are covered by CHINA and foreign patents, issued and pending. Information in this user manual supersedes that in all previously published material.
- Page 3 To assure the timely service within warranty period of OWON product, the first-hand buying party should notify Lilliput of the non-outside force defects in no time, in written form. Lilliput recommends OWON product users to register your product online via “Support &...
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Page 4: Table Of Contents
Table of Contents I. General Safety Requirements......................５ II. Safety Terms and Signs........................６ III. PC Configuration Requirements.....................９ IV. Communication Interface Introduction..................１０ V. How to Communicate Device with PC..................１１ i. to install PC Software......................１１ ii. to install NI-VISA driver......................１１ iii. to run PC Software........................ １４ iv. -
Page 5: General Safety Requirements
I. General Safety Requirements Safety Warnings ! Before using the device, Lilliput strongly recommend to browse “ ” carefully and completely, so as to avoid any possible body injury, or any damages to the device, or its accessories, or communicated facility. ! Safety Warnings i. -
Page 6: Safety Terms And Signs
Safety Terms and Signs Safety Terms Terms in this user manual. It covers, Warning It states the condition or the operation that may cause body injury or permanent life loss. Caution It states the condition or the operation that may cause device damage, or its accessory damage, or communicated facility damage. - Page 7 To avoid body injury, and to avoid device damage, its accessory or communicated facility damage, before working the device, Lilliput strongly recommend to read the following safety information. Warning To avoid any potential short circuit or electric shock, DO use original local standard, or manufacturer’s recommended power adapter.
- Page 8 Warning When the device input is getting through 42+ Vp-p (30Vrms), or on circuit of 4800+VA, to avoid any potential short circuit or electric shock - i. DO use only probes and adapter from original device accessories, or manufacturer’s recommended ones.
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Page 9: Pc Configuration Requirements
III. PC Configuration Requirements Minimum System Requirement CPU: Pentium® 4/ 2.4 GHz Internal Memory: Effective Hard Disk Space: Recommended System Requirement CPU: Pentium® Dual-Core/ 2.4 GHz Internal Memory: Effective Hard Disk Space: Other Requirement Operating System: Windows 10, or Windows 8 / 7 / Vista / XP (32-bit, or 64-bit) Communication Interface: USB 2.0, or USB1.1;... -
Page 10: Communication Interface Introduction
IV. Communication Interface Introduction Figue IV-1. Communication Interface of the Device 1. power input: for AC-DC adapter 2. USB host: for Wi-Fi extension 3. USB device (type-C): for PC communication Note: when the device powered by PC through USB connection cable (via USB communication interface of PC, with PC powered by AC power source), without adapter connection, the input current should reach 1.5A or above 4. -
Page 11: How To Communicate Device With Pc
.exe file from software CD on target PC; thirdly, to wait the PC software successfully installed onto target PC Note: The PC software for OWON product also available from Lilliput official website www.owon.com.cn ii. to install NI-VISA driver to run PC software normally, and smoothly, NI-VISA driver is a must. - Page 12 via "Next", to enter into “Select the installation directories” window, after locating installation path, click "Next", １２...
- Page 13 then "Next", following window comes, untick the box, then "Next", １３...
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Page 14: To Run Pc Software
dot-tick "I accept the above 2 License Agreement(s)", again "Next", dot-tick "I accept the above 2 License Agreement(s)", to continue "Next". Another "Next", based upon the step done, last "Next", eventually, press "Restart" until PC restarts, the full NI-VISA driver will be installed successfully. iii. -
Page 15: To Communicate Device With Pc
iv. to communicate device with PC After powering the device via AC-DC adapter, its status indicator lights red for seconds. Via USB connection cable (type-C), through matching communication interface, to connect the device with PC. When the status indicator lights green, PC software detects effective USB port, mouse-click the detected option to communicate the device with PC. -
Page 16: Operation Interface Of Pc Software
VI. Operation Interface of PC Software 1. Status Indicating Area: please refer to “Status Details List” 2. Main Display Area 3. Red Pointer: to indicate the horizontal position of one conditioned trigger 4. Violet Pointer: to indicate the trigger position in the recorded data 5. -
Page 17: How To Set The Vertical System From Pc Software
Shortcut to back to default factory settings, please refer to "Default" ; Shortcut to export signal data, please refer to "Pause & Export" Shortcut to switch between 3-window / 1-window VIEW. When working in 3-window VIEW, the upper-left window is for XY mode. Shortcut to hide/show Function Menu Trigger extension window, please refer to iv. - Page 18 iii. following status indicates the working of the device Auto automatic trigger mode Ready ready for receiving trigger Trig'd signal triggered Scan slow scan mode Stop the device stops acquiring signal data Error error occurred ReSyncing re-synchronize with the device AutoSet in process of auto setting Keyboard Shortcuts...
- Page 19 VII. Device Operation i. how to set the probe compensation Before working the probe with either of input channels (Channel 1 / Channel 2), better to adjust its compensation, so as to assure ideal measurement effect. Following operation steps to adjust probe compensation - i) From PC software operation interface, mouse-click to get access to device function menu,...
- Page 20 choose the ideal option. Or through rotating the mouse wheel, to choose the ideal option. Through zero point position control bar, to reset zero point position will change the vertical position of the signal, via moving the slider upwards, or downwards - the farther slider from the center of control bar, the faster the vertical position changes.
- Page 21 Frequency Counter The device gets built-in 6-digit frequency counter, with frequency measurement range starts from 2Hz till full bandwidth. iii. how to set the horizontal system from PC software Via “Sample and Period extension window” (as item 16 described under VII.
- Page 22 Note: For first operation, after mouse-clicking , the Home of Function Menu comes, to choose "Trigger" option (or mouse-click from right-bottom extension window to show this option). The Trigger option here indicate single trigger, it is the one to use one trigger signal to capture data from two channels, simultaneously, the operation steps - i).
- Page 23 Video Trigger: field / line trigger on standard video signal Slope Trigger: triggers on signal’s rising / falling rate Pulse Trigger: to capture certain pulse width at given trigger condition 1) Edge Trigger i). choose "Edge" from “Mode”, to trigger on the threshold value of input signal; ii).
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Page 24: How To Set Channel From Pc Software
iii) pick up one trigger synchronization method from Line / Field / Odd Field / Even Field / Line Number. The concrete line number could be set when "Line Number" is picked up. iv) Hold Off setting, please refer to point v) under 1) Edge Trigger. 3) Slope Trigger i) choose "Slope"... - Page 25 to turn on/ turn off Channel 1 / Channel 2 Press "CH1" or "CH2" to choose target channel, check "On" to turn on the target channel, uncheck “On” to turn off the target channel. As alternative method goes, from “Channel extension window for Channel 1 / Channel 2”, click right-upper icon as marked below.
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Page 26: How To Use Automatic Measurement
to measure current It’s possible to measure current via certain unit conversion, the detailed operation is, to use probe to measure the voltage drop across certain resistor. Press "CH1" or "CH2" to choose target channel, then check "Measure Current On", via set the A/V ratio (Amps/Volts ratio). - Page 27 automatic measurement options towards voltage value 10 options involved: Vpp, Vmax, Vmin, Vavg, Vamp, Vrms, Vtop, Vbase, Overshoot and Preshoot. Following illustration to assist better understanding different measurement options, Definitions about these options - voltage between upper peak and lower peak from measured signal Vmax voltage between upper peak and ground (GND) Vmin...
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Page 28: How To Set Sampling Mode
Vbase voltage between flat base and ground (GND) Overshoot equals (Vmax - Vtop) / Vamp Preshoot equals (Vmin - Vbase) / Vamp the arithmetic average voltage value of complete measured signal, Vavg or chosen part of measured signal true RMS voltage value over complete measured signal, or chosen Vrms part of measured signal automatic measurement options towards time measurement... - Page 29 To know more about different sampling mode - Sampling indicates normal sampling mode Peak Detect this sampling mode always been used to capture interrupting signal noise this sampling mode is to reduce random / irrelevant signal noise, with set range from 1 to Average 128 (1≤...
- Page 30 Following illustration is signal output under Average mode, with average number set in 16, from here, the interrupting signal noise been reduced to certain degree, vertical resolution option this option is available only in VDS6102A / VDS6152A Via “Precision Mode”, to know more about this option - ３０...
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Page 31: How To Set Built-In Function Generator
8 Bits indicates the device works in 8-bit vertical resolution from ADC 12 Bits indicates the device works in 12-bit vertical resolution from ADC 14 Bits Indicates the device works in 14-bit vertical resolution from ADC viii. how to set built-in function generator The built-in function generator of 5MHz frequency output available from the device, with 4 basic waves output - sine, square, ramp and pulse, through MULTI communication interface. - Page 32 i) check / uncheck measurement type, available in Time and Voltage option, cursor measurement works for either Time, or Voltage measurement, or both measurement at the same time; ii) when in Voltage measurement type, the target channel could be chosen from “CH1” and “CH2” option; time cursor measurement: Check "Time"...
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Page 33: How To Set The Display System
When moving mouse pointer through Cursor 1 or Cursor 2, it shapes , drag upwards, or downwards to adjust the measurement range between Cursor 1 and Cursor 2. The cursor measurement extension window (located at the bottom-left of main display area) tells the current position of Cursor 1 / Cursor 2, the absolute value of the voltage amplitude difference between Cursor 1 and Cursor 2, as the illustration goes, x. - Page 34 Available in 2 display type, “Vector” and “Dots”. Vector to fill the room between the two adjacent sampling points, in dots of vector Dots to display sampling points only The signal displayed in Vector, In contrast with the same signal displayed in Dots, XY Mode Check "XY Mode", the main display area switches to 3-window VIEW mode.
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Page 35: How To Change Utility Setting
Note: When any changes introduced towards time base, voltage division, or record length, or channel been turned on/off again, the current persistence will be cleared automatically, then to record the signal data after the aforementioned operation, again. Grid Brightness Drag the slider to adjust the grid brightness from main display area. xi. -
Page 36: How To Use Main Action Button
Show Wave Background Check the option to display the background color of main display area; uncheck the option to display the background color of previewed page. Set Preview Page Background Via this option, to change the background color of previewed page. Save Image To save the current page from main display area into .png, .bmp or .gif format image, excluding function menu page. -
Page 37: How To Use Lan Communication Interface
AutoSet To set function items in certain value automatically, so as to generate more-suitable-for-observing waveform. Mouse-click , the device capture the signal automatically, and promptly. The involved function items is as follows - Trigger Trigger Type Edge, or Video, as per the input signal Trigger Mode Auto Trigger Coupling... - Page 38 ii) to set device’s network via “Network” button under “Utility” option a. to communicate device with target PC through USB connection cable via suitable USB communication interface, after the communication successful (please refer to iv. to communicate device with PC under V.
- Page 39 c. press “OK” to finish the “MachineNetSetting” to add NI network device iii) a. device powering. Either through AC adapter, or through USB connection cable, the device been powered, with indicator lights red for seconds. b. LAN connection. To communicate device with target PC through LAN connection, via respective LAN communication interface.
- Page 40 via “Devices and Interfaces”, then “Network Devices”, enter into “Add Network Device” press dot-tick “Auto-detect of LAN Instrument”, then “Next” to following window, ４０...
- Page 41 dot-tick “Select instrument(s) detected on local subnet”, to choose “TCPIP0::(the previous IP connection just added)::inst0::INSTR”, then mouse-click “Finish”. back to PC software, to press TCPIP0::(the previous IP connection just added)::inst0::INSTR to communicate with PC software, ４１...
- Page 42 the device communicates with PC by router connection i) to check target PC’s network setting, the Netmask and Gateway setting should read the same as the one for router, giving an example, provided the router / PC’s network setting goes in - IP Address: 192.168.1.71 Netmask:...
- Page 43 c. press “OK” to finish the “MachineNetSetting” iii) to add NI network device a. device powering. Either through AC adapter, or through USB connection cable, the device been powered, with indicator lights red for seconds. b. LAN connection. To communicate device with target PC through LAN connection, via respective LAN communication interface.
- Page 44 via “Devices and Interfaces”, then “Network Devices”, enter into “Add Network Device” press dot-tick “Auto-detect of LAN Instrument”, then “Next” to following window, ４４...
- Page 45 dot-tick “Select instrument(s) detected on local subnet”, to choose “TCPIP0::(the previous IP connection just added)::inst0::INSTR”, then mouse-click “Finish”. back to PC software, to press TCPIP0::(the previous IP connection just added)::inst0::INSTR to communicate with PC software, ４５...
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Page 46: How To Work Wifi With Pc Software
xiv. how to work WiFi with PC software Note: Only the device equipped with optional WiFi module gets this function. to work WiFi with PC software through device hotspot The target PC should support WiFi communication, and the optional WiFi module should be inserted into USB host communication interface. - Page 47 d. following page comes, via “Devices and Interfaces”, then “Network Devices”, enter into “Add Network Device” e. press dot-tick “Auto-detect of LAN Instrument”, then “Next” ４７...
- Page 48 f. to following window, to choose “TCPIP0::(the previous IP connection dot-tick “Select instrument(s) detected on local subnet”, just added)::inst0::INSTR”, then mouse-click “Finish”. g. back to PC software, to press TCPIP0::(the previous IP connection just added)::inst0::INSTR to communicate with PC software, ４８...
- Page 49 to work WiFi with PC software through device station The target PC should support WiFi communication, and the optional WiFi module should be inserted into USB host communication interface. i) to set device’s network via “Network” button under “Utility” option a.
- Page 50 ii) to add NI network device a. device powering. To disconnect the USB communication between the device and target PC, with AC adapter get through power source, then power the device, with indicator lights red for seconds. b. WiFi communication. To communicate the device with target PC through WiFi hotspot set onto device, as per correct SSID and Password.
- Page 51 dot-tick “Auto-detect of LAN Instrument”, then “Next” f. to following window, to choose “TCPIP0::(the previous IP connection dot-tick “Select instrument(s) detected on local subnet”, just added)::inst0::INSTR”, then mouse-click “Finish”. g. back to PC software, to press TCPIP0::(the previous IP connection just added)::inst0::INSTR to communicate with PC software, ５１...
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Page 53: Technical Specifications
VIII. Technical Specifications i. Set the probe compensation at x10 for physical probe; ii. Under suitable operation temperature, work the device for 30+ minutes without interval; iii. Provided the environment temperature gets 5 degrees more, or less, to self-calibrate the device through Utility menu, via “Self Cal”... - Page 54 2-CH 0.5 Sa/s - 500 MSa/s working VDS6102 VDS6152 1-CH 0.5 Sa/s - 1 GSa/s working 8-bit mode 0.5 Sa/s - 500 MSa/s 2-CH Sampling Rate 12-bit mode 0.5 Sa/s - 250 MSa/s working 14-bit mode 0.5 Sa/s - 100 MSa/s VDS6102A VDS6152A 8-bit mode...
- Page 55 Cursor △V and △T between Cursor 1 and Cursor 2 Measurement Vpp, Vmax, Vmin, Vtop, Vbase, Vamp, Vavg, Vrms, Overshoot, Automatic Preshoot, Frequency, Period, Rise Time, Fall Time, Measurement Measurement Delay A→B , Delay A→B , +Width, -Width, +Duty, -Duty Bandwidth full bandwidth Lissajous Figure...
- Page 56 Frequency Sine 0.1 Hz - 5 MHz Square 0.1 Hz - 200 kHz, with rising or falling time < 200ns Ramp 1 Hz - 10 kHz, with rising or falling time ≥ 5 μ Pulse 1 Hz - 10 kHz, with pulse width ≥ 5 μ...
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Page 57: Appendix
IX. Appendix Appendix A. Device Accessory List Accessories - 2 x passive probe 1 x USB connection cable (type-C) 1 x hard copy quick guide 1 x AC-DC adapter 1 x BNC/Q9 cable 1 x PC software / user manual CD ... -
Page 58: Appendix B. Device Maintenance
Appendix B. Device Maintenance Storage To avoid any possible damage to the device, and probe, keep these items FAR AWAY from sprays, liquids, or solvents. Surface Cleaning As per the operation condition requirements, DO check the device and probe surface from time to time.
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