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VOLTCRAFT DSO-5104H User Manual

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  • Page 1 DSO-5104H Handheld Oscilloscope User Manual...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents 1. General Safety Requirements..................1 2. Safety Terms and Symbols...................2 3. Junior User Guidebook....................4 Introduction to the Structure of the Oscilloscope..............5 Front Panel...............................5 Side Panel..............................6 Top Panel..............................7 User Interface Introduction......................7 How to Implement the General Inspection................9 How to Implement the Function Inspection................
  • Page 3 Customize an Automatic Measurement.................... 74 Measure with Cursors.......................... 75 Use Mathematical Manipulation Function..................78 Waveform math..............................79 User defined function............................79 Digital Filter................................80 Use Autoscale function........................80 Use HOR function..........................82 Use FFT function..........................82 Use XY Format............................88 Use Pass/Fail function......................... 89 Use Executive Buttons.........................91 Print the Screen Image........................

  • Page 4: General Safety Requirements

    1.General Safety Requirements 1. General Safety Requirements Before use, please read the following safety precautions to avoid any possible bodily injury and to prevent this product or any other connected products from damage. In order to avoid any contingent danger, ensure this product is only used within the range specified.

  • Page 5: Safety Terms And Symbols

    2.Safety Terms and Symbols 2. Safety Terms and Symbols Safety Terms Terms in this manual. The following terms may appear in this manual: Warning: Warning indicates the conditions or practices that could result in injury or loss of life. Caution: Caution indicates the conditions or practices that could result in damage to this product or other property.
  • Page 6 2.Safety Terms and Symbols short circuits, the 2 probe grounds must not be connected to 2 different non-isolated DC levels. The diagram of the oscilloscope ground wire connection: The diagram of the ground wire connection when the battery-powered oscilloscope is connected to the AC-powered PC through the ports: It is not allowed to measure AC power when the oscilloscope is AC powered, or when the battery-powered oscilloscope is connected to the AC-powered PC through the ports.

  • Page 7: Junior User Guidebook

    3.Junior User Guidebook 3. Junior User Guidebook This chapter deals with the following topics mainly: Introduction to the structure of the oscilloscope Introduction to the user interface How to implement the general inspection How to implement the function inspection How to make a probe compensation How to set the probe attenuation coefficient How to use the probe safely How to implement an self-calibration...

  • Page 8: Introduction To The Structure Of The Oscilloscope

    3.Junior User Guidebook Introduction to the Structure of the Oscilloscope This chapter makes a simple description of the operation and function of the oscilloscope, enabling you to be familiar with the use of the oscilloscope in the shortest time. Front Panel The front panel has knobs and function buttons.

  • Page 9: Side Panel

    3.Junior User Guidebook the waveform zooming mode. 6. Trigger button: Accesses to trigger system setting. When the button light is on, the upper knob is used to adjust trigger level of current channel. 7. The lower knob: When one of the CH1 - CH4 buttons is lighted, this knob is used to adjust the voltage scale of current channel.

  • Page 10: Top Panel

    3.Junior User Guidebook this port when connect PC to the oscilloscope by USB. 4. USB Host port: It is used to transfer data when external USB equipment connects to the oscilloscope regarded as "host device". For example: Saving the waveform to USB flash disk needs to use this port. 5.
  • Page 11 3.Junior User Guidebook Trig: Trigger detected and acquire waveform. Ready: Pre-triggered data captured and ready for a trigger. Click the to force a trigger signal, which is mainly applied to the "Normal" and "Single" trigger modes. Scan: Capture and display the waveform continuously. Stop: Data acquisition stopped.

  • Page 12: How To Implement The General Inspection

    3.Junior User Guidebook Rise edge count, "-E" the Fall edge count, "AR" the Area, "CA" the Cycle area. 23. The readings show the record length. 24. The readings show current sample rate. 25. The readings indicate the corresponding Voltage Division of the channels. "BW"...

  • Page 13: How To Implement The Function Inspection

    3.Junior User Guidebook there is damage to the instrument caused by the transportation, please keep the package. With the transportation department or our distributor responsible for this business informed about it, a repairing or replacement of the instrument will be arranged by us. How to Implement the Function Inspection Make a fast function check to verify the normal operation of the instrument, according to the following steps:...

  • Page 14: How To Implement The Probe Compensation

    3.Junior User Guidebook How to Implement the Probe Compensation When connect the probe with any input channel for the first time, make this adjustment to match the probe with the input channel. The probe which is not compensated or presents a compensation deviation will result in the measuring error or mistake.

  • Page 15: How To Use The Probe Safely

    3.Junior User Guidebook oscilloscope: (1) Push the function menu button of the used channels (CH1 - CH4 button). (2) Select Probe in the bottom menu; select Attenu in the right menu, select the proper value corresponding to the probe in the left menu. This setting will be valid all the time before it is changed again.

  • Page 16: How To Implement Self-Calibration

    3.Junior User Guidebook Warning: To avoid electric shock, always keep your finger behind the safety guard ring of the probe during the operation. To protect you from suffering from the electric shock, do not touch any metal part of the probe tip when it is connected to the power supply. Before making any measurements, always connect the probe to the instrument and connect the ground terminal to the earth.

  • Page 17: Introduction To The Horizontal System

    3.Junior User Guidebook 1. Press CH1, CH2, CH3 or CH4 panel button to select the desired channel. 2. When one of the channel buttons is lit, you can use the upper knob to show the selected channel waveform in the center of the waveform window. The upper knob functions the regulating of the vertical display position of the selected channel waveform.

  • Page 18: Introduction To The Trigger System

    3.Junior User Guidebook Figure 3- 11 Horizontal Control 1. When the HOR button is lit, push the HOR button to switch between the normal mode and the wave zoom mode. 2. When the HOR button is lit, turn the lower knob to change the horizontal time base setting and observe the consequent status information change.

  • Page 19: Touchscreen Controls

    3.Junior User Guidebook Figure 3- 12 Trigger Control Zone icon on the right bottom of the display area, click Trig Menu 1. Click the to call out the trigger menu in the bottom. The trigger setting can be changed. 2. When the Trigger button is lit, use the upper knob to change the trigger level setting.
  • Page 20 3.Junior User Guidebook corresponding button to switch. See figure below:  Adjust value on the menu item:  Scroll the list: If there is a scroll bar in the left menu, you can swipe up and down to scroll the list. ...
  • Page 21 3.Junior User Guidebook  Set the horizontal and vertical position Click in the area as shown in the figure below, the P icon will appear. Click anywhere outside the icon to hide it. Note: Swipe up/down or left/right in this area, you can make the icon appear and control it.
  • Page 22 3.Junior User Guidebook  Set the trigger level Click in the area as shown in the figure below, the L icon will appear. Click anywhere outside the icon to hide it. Note: Swipe up/down in this area, you can make the icon appear and control it. When the L icon appears, in the full screen, swipe up/down to control the trigger level of the source in the trigger menu.
  • Page 23 3.Junior User Guidebook When the M and V icons appear, in the full screen, swipe left/right to change the time base, swipe up/down to change the voltage division of the selected channel. Click the icons to fine-turn, long-press to adjust continuously. In the full screen, pinch and spread horizontally to change the time base;...
  • Page 24 3.Junior User Guidebook When the C icon appears, in the full screen, swipe left/right to move the selected line. Click the direction buttons of the C icon to fine-turn, long-press to move continuously. Click the center "ab" button to select a, b, or a&b.

  • Page 25: Advanced User Guidebook

    4.Advanced User Guidebook 4. Advanced User Guidebook Up till now, you have already been familiar with the basic operations of the function areas, buttons and knobs in the front panel of the oscilloscope. Based the introduction of the previous Chapter, the user should have an initial knowledge of the determination of the change of the oscilloscope setting through observing the status bar.

  • Page 26: How To Set The Vertical System

    4.Advanced User Guidebook How to Set the Vertical System The VERTICAL CONTROLS include four menu buttons such as CH1, CH2, CH3, CH4, and two knobs such as the upper knob, the lower knob. Setting of CH1 - CH4 Each channel has an independent vertical menu and each item is set respectively based on the channel.
  • Page 27 4.Advanced User Guidebook (2) Select Coupling in the bottom menu. (3) Select DC in the right menu. Both DC and AC components of the signal are passed. (4) Select AC in the right menu. The direct current component of the signal is blocked.

  • Page 28: How To Set The Horizontal System

    4.Advanced User Guidebook (3) Select Full band in the right menu. The high frequency of the signal will be allowed to pass. (4) Select 20M in the right menu. The bandwidth is limited to 20 MHz. The frequencies above 20MHz will be rejected. Use the upper knob and the lower knob If you want to set the vertical position and vertical scale of a channel, press CH1, CH2, CH3 or CH4 at first to select the desired channel, then turn the upper knob to...

  • Page 29: Waveform Horizontal Zooming

    4.Advanced User Guidebook all channels (including mathematical operations). The resolution of this knob changes with the time base.  The lower knob: When the HOR button is lit, adjust the horizontal scale of waveform.  Horizontal HOR key: Switch between the normal mode and the waveform zooming mode.
  • Page 30 4.Advanced User Guidebook (2) Select Magnifier from the bottom menu, and switch to ON. (3) Turn the lower knob to adjust the horizontal magnification. The horizontal time base of the magnifier window also changes. (4) Select Ratio from the bottom menu, select the vertical magnification in the left menu.

  • Page 31: How To Operate The Function Menu

    4.Advanced User Guidebook  When the wave selection is small, a dotted box appears outside the selection to make the selection more recognizable. Magnifier Window Cursor Measurement When the magnifier function is on: 1. Click to call up the menu panel. 2.

  • Page 32: Single Trigger

    4.Advanced User Guidebook bus trigger. Each type of trigger has different sub menus. Click to call up the menu panel, click Tig Menu, select the first menu item in the bottom menu, select Single, Logic or Bus Trigger in the right menu, choose different trigger types in the left menu.

  • Page 33: Video Trigger

    4.Advanced User Guidebook trigger source is CH1, coupling is DC, and trigger level is 0.00mV. Edge menu list: Menu Setting Instruction Single Edge Set vertical channel trigger type as edge trigger. Channel 1 as trigger signal. Channel 2 as trigger signal. Source Channel 3 as trigger signal.
  • Page 34 4.Advanced User Guidebook Select CH1 as the trigger source Select CH2 as the trigger source Source Select CH3 as the trigger source Select CH4 as the trigger source NTSC Modu Select video modulation SECAM Line Synchronic trigger in video line Field Synchronic trigger in video field Synchronic trigger in video odd filed...

  • Page 35: Slope Trigger

    4.Advanced User Guidebook Select pulse width condition and click to set time, click to move cursor to choose which digit to be set. Auto Acquire waveform even no trigger occurred Normal Acquire waveform when trigger occurred When trigger occurs, acquire one waveform then Mode Single stop...

  • Page 36: Runt Trigger

    4.Advanced User Guidebook Normal Acquire waveform when trigger occurred Holdoff Single When trigger occurs, acquire one waveform then stop Holdoff 100 ns – 10 s, click to set time interval before another trigger occur, click to move cursor to choose which digit to be set.

  • Page 37: Windows Trigger

    4.Advanced User Guidebook Click to set pulse width, click move cursor to choose which digit to be set. Trigger when runt pulse is greater than the set pulse width. Trigger when runt pulse equals to the set pulse width. Trigger when runt pulse is lower than the set pulse width.

  • Page 38: Timeout Trigger

    4.Advanced User Guidebook Enter: Triggers when the trigger signal enters the specified trigger level range. Exit: Triggers when the trigger signal exits the specified trigger level range. Time: Specify the hold time of the input signal after entering specified trigger level.

  • Page 39: Nth Edge Trigger

    4.Advanced User Guidebook Auto Acquire waveform even no trigger occurred Normal Acquire waveform when trigger occurred Single When trigger occurs, acquire one waveform then Mode stop Holdoff 100 ns - 10 s, click to set time interval Holdoff before another trigger occur, click to move cursor to choose which digit to be set.

  • Page 40: Logic Trigger

    4.Advanced User Guidebook Edge Trigger on the rising edge of the input signal when voltage level meets the specified trigger level. Edge Trigger on the falling edge of the input signal when voltage level meets the specified trigger level. Set idle time before the edge counting in Nth Edge Trigger.

  • Page 41: Bus Trigger

    4.Advanced User Guidebook Set CH1 as High Level, Low level, high or low level, Rise and Fall. Set CH2 as High Level, Low level, high or low level, Rise and Fall. Set CH3 as High Level, Low level, high or low Input level, Rise and Fall.
  • Page 42 4.Advanced User Guidebook UART Trigger UART Trigger menu list: Menu Setting Instruction Set vertical channel bus type as UART Bus Type UART trigger. Select CH1 as the trigger source. Select CH2 as the trigger source. Source Select CH3 as the trigger source. Select CH4 as the trigger source.
  • Page 43 4.Advanced User Guidebook choose common baud. Custom Baud: click to choose baud, ranges from 50 to 10,000,000. Data Bits: Set as 5, 6, 7, 8 bits. Data： Set data according to data bits, ranges from 0-31, 0-63, 0-127 or 0-255. Data Common Baud: click in the left menu to choose common baud.

  • Page 44: Spi Trigger

    4.Advanced User Guidebook When another start condition occurs Restart before a stop condition. Trigger when SDA data transitions from Stop low to high while SCL is high. Trigger when SDA data is high during Ack Lost any acknowledgement of SCL clock position.

  • Page 45: Menu Setting Instruction

    4.Advanced User Guidebook SPI Trigger menu list: Menu Setting Instruction Bus Type Set vertical channel bus type as SPI trigger. Set SCL. Source Set SDA. Set the minimum time that SCL must be idle, that is a period of SCL, available range 100ns-10s. Time out means SCL keeps idle for a specified Time Out Time out...
  • Page 46 4.Advanced User Guidebook type is CAN, CH1 trigger level is -126 mV. CAN Trigger menu list: Menu Setting Instruction Set vertical channel bus type as CAN trigger. Type Select CH1 as the trigger source. Select CH2 as the trigger source. Source Select CH3 as the trigger source.

  • Page 47: Bus Decoding (Optional)

    4.Advanced User Guidebook Click to set value, (Bottom click to move cursor. menu) Click to set the Byte number of bytes. The range is 1 Length to 8. Click to set value, Data click to move cursor. Trigger on the end frame of the data frame. Lost Trigger on Missing Ack.
  • Page 48 4.Advanced User Guidebook Click to set the Baud. The range is 50 to Custom 10,000,000. Baud Tip: You can select the nearest value in Common Baud, and then adjust it in this menu. Set the data width of each frame to match the signal. Data Bits It can be set to 5, 6, 7 or 8.
  • Page 49 4.Advanced User Guidebook  Use the upper knob to adjust the thresholds of bus trigger and bus decoding.  When the ACK (ACKnowledge Character) is not met, two red error marks will be displayed in the corresponding position in the waveform. I2C Decoding menu list: Menu Setting...
  • Page 50 4.Advanced User Guidebook as the reversed sequence 00010010. SPI Decoding menu list: Menu Setting Instruction Bus Type Set bus type of decoding as SPI. Select the clock edge to match the signal, sample the SCLK SDA data on the rising or falling edge of the clock. Set the minimum time that the clock (SCL) signal must be idle before the oscilloscope starts to search Time Out...

  • Page 51: Implement Sampling Setup

    4.Advanced User Guidebook Decoded information interpretation: Information Abbreviation Background Identifier I, ID, or do not display Green Overload Frame Green Error Frame Green Data Length code L, DLC, or do not display Blue Data D, Data, or do not display Black Valid: Purple Cyclic Redundancy Check...
  • Page 52 4.Advanced User Guidebook Sample Normal sampling mode. Use to capture maximal and minimal samples. Finding highest and lowest Peak points over adjacent intervals. It is used Detect for the detection of the jamming burr and the possibility of reducing the confusion. Acqu It is used to reduce the random and Mode...

  • Page 53: Implement The Auxiliary System Function Setting

    4.Advanced User Guidebook Figure 4- 4 Sine(x)/x interpolation Figure 4- 5 Linear interpolation Implement the Auxiliary System Function Setting ●Config to call up the menu panel. Click the Utility softkey on panel, select Click Function in the bottom menu, select Configure in the left menu. The description of Configure Menu is shown as the follows:...
  • Page 54 4.Advanced User Guidebook Function Setting Description Menu Choose the display language of the operating Language system. Display On/Off the date display Hour Min Setting Hour/Minute Set Time Day Month Setting Date/Month Year Setting Year Lock all keys. Unlock method: push HOR KeyLock button, then push Trigger button, repeat 3 times.
  • Page 55 4.Advanced User Guidebook Do Self Cal (Self-Calibration) The self-calibration procedure can improve the accuracy of the oscilloscope under the ambient temperature to the greatest extent. If the change of the ambient temperature is up to or exceeds 5 ℃ , the self-calibration procedure should be executed to obtain the highest level of accuracy.

  • Page 56: Set The Display System

    4.Advanced User Guidebook Use the side panel USB port to update your instrument firmware using a USB memory device. Refer to "Update your Instrument Firmware" on page 68. Set the Display System Click to call up the menu panel. Click the Display softkey on panel, the Display menu is shown as follows: Function Setting...
  • Page 57 4.Advanced User Guidebook Color temperature function uses color-grading to indicate frequency of occurrence. The hot colors like red/yellow indicate frequently occurring events, and the colder colors like blue/green indicate rarely occurring events. (1) Click to call up the menu panel. Click the Display softkey on panel. (2) Select Persist&Color in the bottom menu.

  • Page 58: Save And Recall A Waveform

    4.Advanced User Guidebook Operation steps: 1. Click , click the Trig Menu softkey on panel, set the trigger type to Single, set the trigger mode to Edge, select the signal source. , click the Display softkey on panel. 2. Click 3.
  • Page 59 4.Advanced User Guidebook Save the waveform of the source to the selected address. Whatever the Type of save menu is set, you can save the waveform by just pressing the Copy Save panel button in any user interface. Select Type in the bottom menu, in the right Format menu, you can select the storage format.
  • Page 60 4.Advanced User Guidebook 5. Select Source in the bottom menu, check CH1, CH2, Math in the right menu for Source. 6. Select Object & Show in the bottom menu, select Wave1 as object address in the left menu. 7. Select Save in the bottom menu to save the waveform. 8.

  • Page 61: Usb Disk Requirements

    4.Advanced User Guidebook 2. After the USB disk is installed, click to call up the menu panel. Click the Save softkey on panel, the save menu is displayed at the bottom of the screen. 3. Select Type in the bottom menu, select Image in the left menu. 4.
  • Page 62 4.Advanced User Guidebook Figure 4- 8: Format the USB disk warning 5. Set File System as FAT32, Allocation unit size 4096. Check "Perform a quick format" to execute a quick format. Click OK, and then click Yes on the warning message.
  • Page 63 4.Advanced User Guidebook Check whether the USB disk is FAT32 with allocation unit size 4096 after formatting. Use Minitool Partition Wizard to format Download URL: http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html Tip: There are many tools for the USB disk formatting on the market, just take Minitool Partition Wizard for example here.
  • Page 64 4.Advanced User Guidebook Figure 4- 13: Format setting 6. Click Apply at the top left of the menu. Then click Yes on the pop-up warning to begin formatting. Figure 4- 14: Apply setting 7. Formatting process Figure 4- 15: Format process Format the USB disk successfully...

  • Page 65: Record/Playback Waveforms

    4.Advanced User Guidebook Figure 4- 16: Format successfully Record/Playback Waveforms Click to call up the menu panel. Click the Save softkey on panel. Select Type in the bottom menu, select Record in the left menu. Wave Record function can record the input current wave. You can set the interval between recorded frames in the range of 10 ms - 10 s.
  • Page 66 4.Advanced User Guidebook Start Click to select the number of start frame frame to playback (1 - 1000) Click to select the number of end Playback frame frame to playback (1 - 1000) mode Cur frame Click to select the number of current FrameSet frame to playback (1 - 1000) Interval...
  • Page 67 4.Advanced User Guidebook When storage medium is External, Wave Record contains two modes: OFF, Record. Record menu (External Storage) shows as follows: Menu Setting Instruction Close wave record function Mode Record Set record menu Click to select the number of frames frame to record (1 –...

  • Page 68: Clone And Recall A Waveform

    4.Advanced User Guidebook Figure 4- 17: Play back waveform by software Clone and Recall a waveform Click to call up the menu panel. Click the Save softkey on panel. Select Type in the bottom menu, select Clone in the left menu. You can clone one or two channel waveforms between two cursors, and save it as a cloned waveform into a USB memory device.
  • Page 69 4.Advanced User Guidebook AG Output Out2 Select the source, which will be used for AG Out2 CH1 CH2 CH3 CH4 Click line a to select it, swipe left/right to move it. Click line b to select it, swipe left/right to move it. Two cursors are linked.
  • Page 70 4.Advanced User Guidebook will pop up. Select the keys to input the file name, select the key in the keyboard to confirm. The cloned waveform will be saved onto the USB memory device as an OTA file. Data format description of OTA waveform file If the source mode is set to Out1 or Out2, OTA file consists of two parts: the file header and the channel data.

  • Page 71: Update Your Instrument Firmware

    4.Advanced User Guidebook Parameter Meaning Value Comment name ADCB ADC bit, ADC 4 bytes int 8-bit or 12-bit resolution CHAN Parameter Meaning Value Comment name CHAN Number of 4 bytes int 1 or 2 channels VOL2 Parameter Meaning Value Comment name VOL2 Voltage division,...

  • Page 72: Measure Automatically

    4.Advanced User Guidebook in the bottom menu. View the model and the currently installed firmware version. 2. From a PC, visit the website and check if the website offers a newer firmware version. Download the firmware file. The file name must be *.update. The file name can be up to 15 characters long (including the suffix).
  • Page 73 4.Advanced User Guidebook display the Measure menu. At most 8 types of measurements could be displayed on the bottom left of the screen. The oscilloscopes provide 39 parameters for auto measurement, including Period, Frequency, Mean, PK-PK, RMS, Max, Min, Top, Base, Amplitude, Overshoot, Preshoot, Rise Time, Fall Time, +PulseWidth, -PulseWidth, +Duty Cycle, -Duty Cycle, Screen Duty, FRR, FRF, FFR, FFF, LRR, LRF, LFR, LFF, Delay A→B...

  • Page 74: The Automatic Measurement Of Voltage Parameters

    4.Advanced User Guidebook situation: 1) On the saved waveform. 2) On Waveform Math waveform. 3) On the Video trigger mode. On the Scan format, period and frequency cannot be measured. Measure the period, the frequency of the CH1, following the steps below: to call up the menu panel.

  • Page 75: The Automatic Measurement Of Time Parameters

    4.Advanced User Guidebook Figure 4- 19 Mean: The arithmetic mean over the entire waveform. PK-PK: Peak-to-Peak Voltage. RMS: The true Root Mean Square voltage over the entire waveform. Max: The maximum amplitude. The most positive peak voltage measured over the entire waveform. Min: The minimum amplitude.
  • Page 76 4.Advanced User Guidebook Figure 4- 20 Rise Time: Time that the leading edge of the first pulse in the waveform takes to rise from 10% to 90% of its amplitude. Fall Time: Time that the falling edge of the first pulse in the waveform takes to fall from 90% to 10% of its amplitude.

  • Page 77: Other Measurements

    4.Advanced User Guidebook FFF: Time between Source A first falling edge and Source B first falling edge. LRR: Time between Source A first rising edge and Source B last rising edge. LRF: Time between Source A first rising edge and Source B last falling edge. LFR: Time between Source A first falling edge and Source B last rising edge.

  • Page 78: Measure With Cursors

    4.Advanced User Guidebook measurement value. Statistics reset: Restart statistics on statistics. Measure with Cursors Click to call up the menu panel. Click the Cursor softkey on panel to switch to the ON state and display the cursor menu. Click it again to turn cursors off. The Cursor Measurement for normal mode: The description of the cursor menu is shown as the following table: Function...
  • Page 79 4.Advanced User Guidebook active. Click line a to select it, swipe left/right to move it. Click line b to select it, swipe left/right to move it. 5. In the bottom menu, select Line Type as Voltage to make the horizontal cursors active.

  • Page 80: Function Menu

    4.Advanced User Guidebook Figure 4- 22 Auto Cursor The Cursor Measurement for FFT mode to call up the menu panel. Click the Cursor softkey on In FFT mode, click panel to switch to the ON state and display the cursor menu. The description of the cursor menu in FFT mode is shown as the following table: Function Setting...

  • Page 81: Use Mathematical Manipulation Function

    4.Advanced User Guidebook 5. In the bottom menu, select Line Type as Freq to make the vertical cursors active. Click line a to select it, swipe left/right to move it. Click line b to select it, swipe left/right to move it. 6.

  • Page 82: Waveform Math

    4.Advanced User Guidebook Only the signals whose frequencies are high-pass greater than the current cutoff frequency can pass the filter. Only the signals whose frequencies are greater than the cutoff frequency down band-pass lower than current cutoff frequency upper can pass the filter. Only the signals whose frequencies are lower than the current cutoff frequency band-reject...

  • Page 83: Digital Filter

    4.Advanced User Guidebook 2. Select User Function in the bottom menu, select Edit fun in the right menu, an expression input keyboard pops up. 3. Create an expression. When done, choose in the keyboard to confirm . The division of Math waveform is displayed at the left bottom of screen. Digital Filter Digital filter provides 4 types of filters (low pass, high pass, band pass and band reject).

  • Page 84: Function Setting

    4.Advanced User Guidebook instrument to set up trigger mode, voltage division and time scale automatically according to the type, amplitude and frequency of the signals. The menu is as follows: Function Setting Instruction Menu Follow-up and adjust both vertical and horizontal settings.

  • Page 85: Use Hor Function

    4.Advanced User Guidebook flickering on the top left of the screen. 2. In the mode of Autoscale, the oscilloscope can self-estimate Trigger Mode (Edge, Video). At this point, the trigger menu is not available. 3. When the input signal contains the DC component, the coupling will be set to AC, the amplitude of the input signal should be greater than 5mV, and the frequency should be greater than 20Hz.
  • Page 86 4.Advanced User Guidebook Position value Switch to select the horizontal position Hori (Hz) or time base of the FFT waveform, click Time base to adjust it. value/ Display Position value Switch to select the vertical position or Vertical voltage division of the FFT waveform, Division value/ click to adjust it.
  • Page 87 4.Advanced User Guidebook the following guidelines to select the best window. Type Characteristics Window Better solution for magnitude than Rectangle, and good for frequency as well. It has slightly better frequency resolution than Hanning. Recommend to use for: Hamming Sine, periodic and narrow band random noise. ...
  • Page 88 4.Advanced User Guidebook The frequency resolution when using the Kaiser window is fair; the spectral leakage and amplitude accuracy are both good. The Kaiser window is best used when frequencies Kaiser are very close to the same value but have widely differing amplitudes (the side lobe level and shape factor are closest to the traditional Gaussian RBW).
  • Page 89 4.Advanced User Guidebook Figure 4- 25 Rectangle window Figure 4- 26 Blackman window...
  • Page 90 4.Advanced User Guidebook Figure 4- 27 Hanning window Figure 4- 28 Kaiser window...

  • Page 91: Use Xy Format

    4.Advanced User Guidebook Figure 4- 29 Bartlett window Notes for using FFT  Use the default dB scale for details of multiple frequencies, even if they have very different amplitudes. Use the Vrms scale to compare frequencies.  DC component or offset can cause incorrect magnitude values of FFT waveform.

  • Page 92: Use Pass/Fail Function

    4.Advanced User Guidebook The XY menu: Function Setting Description Menu Full Screen Turn on/off the full screen view in XY mode This format is only applicable to Channel 1 and Channel 2. After the XY display format is selected, Channel 1 is displayed in the horizontal axis and Channel 2 in the vertical axis;...
  • Page 93 4.Advanced User Guidebook Pass Signal tested corresponds with the rule Fail Signal tested not correspond with the rule Output Beep Beep when it satisfies the rule Stop Stop once satisfying the rule Info Control the display status of info frame Source Select the source as CH1, CH2, CH3 or CH4 Horizontal...

  • Page 94: Use Executive Buttons

    4.Advanced User Guidebook running, the number of Pass/Fail will increase from the former number, not from zero. 5. When the waveform playback mode is on, Pass/Fail is used to test the played-back waveform specially. Use Executive Buttons Executive Buttons include Copy, Default, Run/Stop, Single, Autoset. Copy You can save the waveform by just pushing the Copy panel button in any user interface.

  • Page 95: Print The Screen Image

    4.Advanced User Guidebook The previous source before autoseting. When the previous source has no input signal, the source will be set to the minimum channel which Trigger Source has input signal. When all the channels have no input signal, the source will be set to CH1.
  • Page 96 4.Advanced User Guidebook parameters. The On selection of Ink Saver will print out a copy with a white background. (5) Once you have connected a printer to your oscilloscope and set up print parameters, click Play in the bottom menu to print current screen images.

  • Page 97: Communication With Pc

    5.Communication with PC 5. Communication with PC The oscilloscope supports communications with a PC through USB, LAN port. You can use the Oscilloscope communication software to store, analyze, display the data and remote control. To learn about how to operate the software, you can push F1 in the software to open the help document.

  • Page 98: Using Lan Port

    5.Communication with PC Using LAN Port Connect directly (1) Connection. Plug in the LAN cable to the LAN port in the right panel of the oscilloscope; plug the other end into the LAN interface of the computer. (2) Set the network parameters of the computer. Since the oscilloscope can not support obtaining an IP address automatically, you should assign a static IP address.

  • Page 99: Connect Through A Router

    5.Communication with PC Figure 5- 3 Set the network parameters of the Oscilloscope Software (4) Set the network parameters of the oscilloscope. In the oscilloscope, click icon, click Utility. Select Function in the bottom menu. Select LAN Set in the left menu. In the bottom menu, set the Type item as LAN, and select Set.
  • Page 100 5.Communication with PC IP address. The Default gateway and Subnet mask should be set according to the router. Here we set the IP address to 192.168.1.71, Subnet mask is 255.255.255.0, Default gateway is 192.168.1.1. Figure 5- 5 Set the network parameters of the computer (3) Set the network parameters of the Oscilloscope Software.
  • Page 101 5.Communication with PC Figure 5- 6 Set the network parameters of the Oscilloscope Software (4) Set the network parameters of the oscilloscope. In the oscilloscope, click icon, click Utility. Select Function in the bottom menu. Select LAN Set in the left menu. In the bottom menu, set the Type item as LAN, and select Set.

  • Page 102: Demonstration

    6.Demonstration 6. Demonstration Example 1: Measurement a Simple Signal The purpose of this example is to display an unknown signal in the circuit, and measure the frequency and peak-to-peak voltage of the signal. 1. Carry out the following operation steps for the rapid display of this signal: (1) Set the probe menu attenuation coefficient as 10X and that of the switch in the probe switch as 10X (see "How to Set the Probe Attenuation...

  • Page 103: Example 2: Gain Of A Amplifier In A Metering Circuit

    6.Demonstration Figure 6- 1 Measure period and frequency value for a given signal Example 2: Gain of a Amplifier in a Metering Circuit The purpose of this example is to work out the Gain of an Amplifier in a Metering Circuit. First we use Oscilloscope to measure the amplitude of input signal and output signal from the circuit, then to work out the Gain by using given formulas.

  • Page 104: Example 3: Capturing A Single Signal

    6.Demonstration bottom left of the screen (see Figure 6- 2). (11) Calculate the amplifier gain with the following formulas. Gain = Output Signal / Input signal Gain (db) = 20×log (gain) Figure 6- 2 Waveform of Gain Measurement Example 3: Capturing a Single Signal It's quite easy to use Digital Oscilloscope to capture non-periodic signal, such as a pulse and burr etc.
  • Page 105 6.Demonstration display the Acquire menu. (4) Select Acqu Mode in the bottom menu. Select Peak Detect in the right menu. to call up the menu panel. Click the Trig Menu softkey on panel (5) Click to display the Trigger menu. (6) Select the first menu item in the bottom menu.

  • Page 106: Example 4: Analyze The Details Of A Signal

    6.Demonstration Example 4: Analyze the Details of a Signal Noise is very common inside most of the electronic signal. To find out what's inside the noise and reduce the level of noise is very important function our oscilloscope is capable to offer. Noise Analysis The level of noise sometime indicates a failure of electronic circuit.

  • Page 107: Example 5: Application Of X-Y Function

    6.Demonstration (2) Select Acqu Mode in the bottom menu. (3) Select Average in the right menu, select the average number in the left menu, observe the waveform obtained from averaging the waveforms of different average number. User would see a much-reduced random noise level and make it easy to see more details of the signal itself.
  • Page 108 6.Demonstration (3) Push the CH1 to CH4 button to turn on CH1 and CH2, turn off CH3 and CH4. (4) Push the Autoset button, with the oscilloscope turning on the signals of the two channels and displaying them in the screen. (5) Push CH1 button to select CH1, turn the lower knob, and then push CH2 button to select CH2, turn the lower knob, making the amplitudes of two signals equal in the rough.

  • Page 109: Example 6: Video Signal Trigger

    6.Demonstration 3π /2). Example 6: Video Signal Trigger Observe the video circuit of a television, apply the video trigger and obtain the stable video output signal display. Video Field Trigger For the trigger in the video field, carry out operations according to the following steps: to call up the menu panel.

  • Page 110: Troubleshooting

    7.Troubleshooting 7. Troubleshooting 1. Oscilloscope is powered on but no Display.  Check whether the power connection is connected properly.  Restart the instrument after completing the checks above.  If the problem persists, please contact us and we will be under your service.

  • Page 111: Technical Specifications

    8.Technical Specifications 8. Technical Specifications Unless otherwise specified, the technical specifications applied are for DSO-5104H only, and Probes attenuation set as 10X. Only if the oscilloscope fulfills the following two conditions at first, these specification standards can be reached.  This instrument should run for at least 30 minutes continuously under the specified operating temperature.
  • Page 112 9.Appendix Performance Characteristics Instruction Input coupling DC, AC, Ground Input impedance 1 MΩ±2%, in parallel with 15 pF±5 pF Input coupling 0.001X - 1000X, step by 1 – 2 - 5 Max input voltage 400 V (DC + AC Peak) Input Bandwidth limit 20 MHz, full bandwidth...
  • Page 113 9.Appendix Performance Characteristics Instruction Analog bandwidth 100 MHz Single bandwidth DC to 100 MHz Low Frequency ≥10 Hz (at input, AC coupling, -3 dB) Rise time (at input, ≤ 3.5 ns Typical) 1 mV ±4% 8 bits mode DC gain accuracy ≥2 mV ±3% 12 bits mode...

  • Page 114: Trigger

    8.Technical Specifications Performance Characteristics Instruction Counter Support Max Sample rate (real time) for Dual CH should meet the following condition: CH1 and CH2 can not be turned on simultaneously, CH3 and CH4 can not be turned on simultaneously. CH1&CH3 on, the others off; ...

  • Page 115: General Technical Specifications

    8.Technical Specifications Edge Number 1 to 128 Logic Mode AND, OR, XNOR, XOR Input Mode H, L, X, Rising, Falling Logic Trigger Goes True, Goes False, Is True >, Output Mode Is True <, Is True = Polarity Normal, Inverted Trigger Condition Start, Error, Check Error, Data UART Trigger...
  • Page 116 8.Technical Specifications 7.4V, 8000mAh Battery The battery can last approximately 5 hours after a full recharge. Environment Working temperature: 0 ℃ - 40 ℃ Temperature Storage temperature: -20 ℃ - 60 ℃ Relative Humidity ≤ 90% Operating: 3,000 m Height Non-operating: 15,000 m Cooling Method Fan cooling...

  • Page 117: Appendix

    9.Appendix 9. Appendix Appendix A: Enclosure (The accessories subject to final delivery.) Standard Accessories: Power Cord CD Rom Quick Guide Micro USB Cable Probes Probe Adjust Adapter Stand Holder BNC-SAM Safety hintsheet Options: Appendix B: General Care and Cleaning General Care Do not store or leave the instrument where the liquid crystal display will be exposed to direct sunlight for long periods of time.

  • Page 118: Appendix C: Battery Using Guide

    9.Appendix with a wet soft cloth not dripping water. It is recommended to scrub with soft detergent or fresh water. To avoid damage to the instrument or probe, do not use any corrosive chemical cleaning agent. Warning: Before power on again for operation, it is required to confirm that the instrument has already been dried completely, avoiding any electrical short circuit or bodily injury resulting from the moisture.

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