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Owon SDS series User Manual

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  • Page 1 SDS Series Smart Digital Storage Oscilloscopes User Manual ■ SDS6062(V) ■ SDS7102(V) ■ SDS8102(V) ■ SDS8202(V) ■ SDS8302 ■ SDS9302 Note: "V" for VGA interface (optional), SDS8302 and SDS9302 including VGA interface as default. WWW.OWON.COM WWW.OWON.COM.HK WWW.OWON.COM.CN...
  • Page 2 The information in this manual was correct at the time of printing. However, OWON will continue to improve products and reserves the rights to changes specification at any time without notice.
  • Page 3 Please contact the nearest Lilliput's Sales and Service Offices for services or a complete copy of the warranty statement. For better after-sales service, please visit www.owon.com.hk and register the purchased product online. Excepting the after-sales services provided in this summary or the applicable warranty...

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents 1. General Safety Requirements..................1 2. Safety Terms and Symbols....................2 3. General Characteristics....................4 4. Junior User Guidebook ....................5 Introduction to the Structure of the Oscilloscope..............6 Front Panel ............................... 6 Left Side Panel ............................7 Right Side Panel ............................
  • Page 5 How to Measure Automatically......................64 How to Measure with Cursors........................ 68 How to Use Autoscale..........................73 How to Use Built-in Help........................75 How to Use Executive Buttons....................... 75 6. Demonstration ....................... 77 Example 1: Measurement a Simple Signal................77 Example 2: Gain of a Amplifier in a Metering Circuit ............78 Example 3: Capturing a Single Signal..................

  • Page 6: General Safety Requirements

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

  • Page 7: 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 8 2.Safety Terms and Symbols Warning The channels should adopt common basis during measuring. To prevent short circuits, the 2 probe ground must not be connected to 2 different non-isolated DC level. The diagram of the oscilloscope ground wire connection: Probe Oscilloscope Electrical Outlet Signal Input...

  • Page 9: General Characteristics

    3.General Characteristics 3. General Characteristics Bandwidth: 60MHz — 300 MHz; Sample rate(real time): 500MS/s — 3.2GS/s; Dual channel, 10M points on each channel for the Record length; Autoscale function; 7cm smart design body; 8 inch high definition TFT display (800 x 600 pixels); Built-in FFT function;...

  • Page 10: Junior User Guidebook

    4.Junior User Guidebook 4. 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 auto-calibration...

  • Page 11: Introduction To The Structure Of The Oscilloscope

    4.Junior User Guidebook Introduction to the Structure of the Oscilloscope When you get a new-type oscilloscope, you should get acquainted with its front panel at first and the SDS series digital storage oscilloscope is no exception. This chapter makes a simple description of the operation and function of the front panel of the SDS series oscilloscope, enabling you to be familiar with the use of the SDS series oscilloscope in the shortest time.

  • Page 12: Left Side Panel

    4.Junior User Guidebook 4. Control (key and knob) area 5. Probe Compensation: Measurement signal(5V/1KHz) output 6. EXT Trigger Input 7. Signal Input Channel 8. Menu off Left Side Panel Figure 4-2 Left side panel 1. Power switch: "―" represents power ON; "○" represents power OFF. 2.

  • Page 13: Rear Panel

    4.Junior User Guidebook the oscilloscope regarded as "slave device". For example: to use this port when connect PC to the oscilloscope by USB. 3. COM / VGA port (Optional): To connect the oscilloscope with external equipment as serial port, or to connect the oscilloscope with a monitor or a projector as VGA output (for the model with "V") 4.

  • Page 14: Control (Key And Knob) Area

    4.Junior User Guidebook Control (key and knob) Area Figure 4-5 Keys Overview 1. Menu option setting: H1~H5 2. Menu option setting: F1~F5 3. Menu off：turn off the menu ○ 4. M knob(Multipurpose knob): when a M symbol appears in the menu, it indicates you can turn the M knob to select the menu or set the value.

  • Page 15: User Interface Introduction

    4.Junior User Guidebook User Interface Introduction Figure 4-6 Illustrative Drawing of Display Interfaces 1. Waveform Display Area. 2. The state of trigger, including: Auto: Automatic mode and acquire waveform without triggering. Trig: Trigger detected and acquire waveform. Ready: Pre-triggered data captured and ready for a trigger. Scan: Capture and display the waveform continuously.
  • Page 16 4.Junior User Guidebook 11. The waveform of CH1. 12. The positions of two purple dotted line cursors measurements. 13. The yellow pointer shows the trigger level position for CH2. 14. The waveform of CH2. 15. The frequency of the trigger signal of CH1. 16.

  • Page 17: How To Implement The General Inspection

    4.Junior User Guidebook How to Implement the General Inspection After you get a new SDS series oscilloscope, it is recommended that you should make a check on the instrument according to the following steps: 1. Check whether there is any damage caused by transportation. If it is found that the packaging carton or the foamed plastic protection cushion has suffered serious damage, do not throw it away first till the complete device and its accessories succeed in the electrical and mechanical property tests.

  • Page 18: How To Implement The Probe Compensation

    4.Junior User Guidebook Connect the probe tip and the ground clamp to the connector of the probe compensator. 3. Press the "Autoset" Button. The square wave of 1 KHz frequency and 5V peak-peak value will be displayed in several seconds (see Figure 4-7). Figure 4-7 Auto set Check CH2 by repeating Step 2 and Step 3.

  • Page 19: How To Set The Probe Attenuation Coefficient

    4.Junior User Guidebook Overcompensated Compensated correctly Under compensated Figure 4-8 Displayed Waveforms of the Probe Compensation 3. Re peat the steps mentioned if needed. Figure 4-9 Adjust Probe How to Set the Probe Attenuation Coefficient The probe has several attenuation coefficients, which will influence the vertical scale factor of the oscilloscope.

  • Page 20: How To Use The Probe Safely

    4.Junior User Guidebook Figure 4-10 Attenuation Switch Caution: When the attenuation switch is set to 1X, the probe will limit the bandwidth of the oscilloscope in 5MHz. To use the full bandwidth of the oscilloscope, the switch must be set to 10X. How to Use the Probe Safely The safety guard ring around the probe body protects your finger against any electric shock, shown as Figure 4-11.

  • Page 21: Introduction To The Vertical System

    4.Junior User Guidebook menu; turn the M knob to choose Adjust. Press H2 button to choose the option "Self Cal"; run the program after everything is ready. Introduction to the Vertical System As shown in Figure 4-12, there are a few of buttons and knobs in VERTICAL CONTROLS.

  • Page 22: Introduction To The Horizontal System

    4.Junior User Guidebook Turn the vertical "VOLTS/DIV" knob and change the "Vertical Scale Factor (Voltage Division)", it can be found that the scale factor of the channel corresponding to the status bar has been changed accordingly. Press buttons of "CH1 MENU", "CH2 MENU" and "Math", the operation menu, symbols, waveforms and scale factor status information of the corresponding channel will be displayed in the screen.

  • Page 23: Introduction To The Trigger System

    4.Junior User Guidebook Introduction to the Trigger System As shown in Figure 4-14, there are one knob and three buttons make up "TRIGGER CONTROLS". The following practices will direct you to be familiar with the setting of the trigger system gradually. Figure 4-14 Trigger Control Zone 1.

  • Page 24: Advanced User Guidebook

    5.Advanced User Guidebook 5. 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 25: How To Set The Vertical System

    5.Advanced User Guidebook How to Set the Vertical System The VERTICAL CONTROLS includes three menu buttons such as CH1 MENU, CH2 MENU and Math, and four knobs such as VERTICAL POSITION, VOLTS/DIV for each channel. Setting of CH1 and CH2 Each channel has an independent vertical menu and each item is set respectively based on the channel.
  • Page 26 5.Advanced User Guidebook The description of the Channel Menu is shown as the following list: Function Setting Description Menu Pass both AC and DC components of the input signal. Coupling Block the DC component of the input signal. GROUND Disconnect the input signal. Display inverted waveform.
  • Page 27 5.Advanced User Guidebook Figure 5-2 DC Coupling Oscillogram Figure 5-3 AC Coupling Oscillogram 2. To adjust the probe attenuation For correct measurements, the attenuation coefficient settings in the operating menu of the Channel should always match what is on the probe (see "How to Set the Probe Attenuation Coefficient"...
  • Page 28 5.Advanced User Guidebook (1) Press the CH1 MENU button to show CH1 SETUP menu. (2) Press the H3 menu selection, the Probe menu will display at the right of the screen. Press the F1 button to select Attenu. In the menu at the left of the screen, turn the M knob to select X10 for the probe.
  • Page 29 5.Advanced User Guidebook Figure 5-5 Measure Current 4. To invert a waveform Waveform inverted: the displayed signal is turned 180 degrees against the phase of the earth potential. Taking the Channel 1 for example, the operation steps are shown as follows: (1) Press the CH1 MENU button to show CH1 SETUP menu.
  • Page 30 5.Advanced User Guidebook Figure 5-6 Original Waveform Figure 5-7 Inverted Waveform 5. To set bandwidth limit (SDS6062(V) does not have this function) When high frequency components of a waveform are not important to its analysis, the bandwidth limit control can be used to reject frequencies above 20 MHz. Taking the Channel 1 for example, the operation steps are shown as below: (1) Press the CH1 MENU button to show CH1 SETUP menu.

  • Page 31: Use Mathematical Manipulation Function

    5.Advanced User Guidebook (3) Press the F1 button to select the Band Limit as full band. The high frequency of the signal will be allowed to pass. (4) Press the F2 button to select the Band Limit as 20M. The bandwidth is limited to 20MHz.

  • Page 32: Using Fft Function

    5.Advanced User Guidebook Select dB for Format. Format Vrms Select Vrms for Format. Set multiple ×1. ×1 Set multiple ×2. ×2 Zoom ×5 Set multiple ×5. Set multiple ×10. ×10 Taking the additive operation between Channel 1 and Channels 2 for example, the operation steps are as follows: 1.
  • Page 33 5.Advanced User Guidebook FFT function in this oscilloscope transforms 2048 data points of the time-domain signal into its frequency components mathematically and the final frequency contains 1024 points ranging from 0Hz to Nyquist frequency. Taking the FFT operation for example, the operation steps are as follows: 1.
  • Page 34 5.Advanced User Guidebook Good for magnitude, but poorer frequency resolution than Hamming. Recommend to use for: Hanning Sine, periodic and narrow band random noise. Transients or bursts where the signal levels before and after the event are significantly different. Best solution for magnitude, worst for frequency. Recommend to use for: Blackman Single frequency waveforms, to find higher...
  • Page 35 5.Advanced User Guidebook Figure 5-11 Hamming window Figure 5-12 Hanning window...

  • Page 36: Use Vertical Position And Volts/Div Knobs

    5.Advanced User Guidebook Figure 5-13 Blackman window Notes for using FFT Use Zoom function to magnify the FFT waveform if necessary. 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 37: How To Set The Horizontal System

    5.Advanced User Guidebook The analytic resolution of this control knob changes with the vertical division. 2. The VOLTS/DIV knob is used to regulate the vertical resolution of the wave forms, including the captured waveforms and calculated waveforms. The sensitivity of the vertical division steps as 1-2-5. Turning clockwise to increase vertical sensitivity and anti-clockwise to decrease.
  • Page 38 5.Advanced User Guidebook Function Menu Description The setting of the horizontal main time base is Main (Main Time Base) used to display the waveform. A window area is defined by two cursors. This Set (Set Window) function is not available at FFT mode. The defined window area for display is Zoom (Zoom Window) expanded to the full screen.

  • Page 39: Window Expansion

    5.Advanced User Guidebook Figure 5-17 Window Setting Window Expansion Press the H3 menu selection button and choose Zoom. As a result, the window area defined by two cursors will be expanded to the full screen size (see Figure 5-18). Figure 5-18 Zoom Window...

  • Page 40: How To Set The Trigger System

    5.Advanced User Guidebook How to Set the Trigger System Trigger determines when DSO starts to acquire data and display waveform. Once trigger is set correctly, it can convert the unstable display to meaningful waveform. When DSO starts to acquire data, it will collect enough data to draw waveform on left of trigger point.

  • Page 41: Video Trigger

    5.Advanced User Guidebook The Edge Trigger Menu is shown as Figure 5-19 Figure 5-19 Edge trigger menu Edge menu list: Menu Settings Instruction Single Mode Edge Set vertical channel trigger type as edge trigger. Channel 1 as trigger signal. Channel 2 as trigger signal. Source External trigger as trigger signal EXT/5...

  • Page 42: Slope Trigger

    5.Advanced User Guidebook Figure 5-20 Video trigger menu Video menu list: MENU SETTING INSTRUCTION Single Mode Video Set vertical channel trigger type as video trigger Select CH1 as the trigger source Select CH2 as the trigger source Source The external trigger input EXT/5 1/5 of the external trigger source for increasing range of level...

  • Page 43: Pulse Width Trigger

    5.Advanced User Guidebook Set slope condition; turn the M knob to set slope time. Adjust M knob to set the upper limit. High level High level Threshold Adjust M knob to set Low level Low level lower limit. &SlewRate Slew rate = ( Slew rate High level - Low level) / Settings Auto...

  • Page 44: Alternate Trigger

    5.Advanced User Guidebook Auto Acquire waveform even no trigger occurred Normal Acquire waveform when trigger occurred Mode Single When trigger occurs, acquire one waveform then stop Holdoff 100ns~10s, adjust M knob to set time interval before Holdoff another trigger occur. Reset Set Holdoff time as 100ns Alternate trigger...
  • Page 45 5.Advanced User Guidebook 2. Alternate trigger (Trigger Mode: video) Alternate trigger (Trigger Type: video) Menu is shown as Figure 5-24. Figure 5-24 Alternate trigger (Trigger Type: video) Menu Alternate trigger (Trigger Type: video) list: Menu MENU SETTING INSTRUCTION Alternate Mode Video Set vertical channel trigger type as video trigger.
  • Page 46 5.Advanced User Guidebook Turn the M knob to set the High level High level Turn the M knob to set Threshold Low level Low level Slew rate=( Slew rate High level- Low level)/ Settings Auto Acquire waveform even no trigger occurred Mode Holdoff 100ns~10s, adjust the M knob to set time interval...
  • Page 47 5.Advanced User Guidebook selected as a trigger source whatever displayed or not. Ext Trig: The instrument can be triggered from a third source while acquiring data from CH1 and CH2. For example, to trigger from an external clock or with a signal from another part of the test circuit.

  • Page 48: How To Operate The Function Menu

    5.Advanced User Guidebook How to Operate the Function Menu The function menu control zone includes 8 function menu buttons: Measure, Acquire, Utility, Cursor, Autoscale, Save, Display, Help and 4 immediate-execution buttons: Autoset, Run/Stop, Single, Copy. How to Implement Sampling Setup Press the Acquire button and the menu is displayed in the screen, shown as Figure 5-27.
  • Page 49 5.Advanced User Guidebook The description of the Record Length Menu is shown as follows: Function Menu Setting Description 1000 Length 100K Choose the record length Change the ACQU Mode settings and observe the consequent variation of the wave form displayed. Figure 5-28 Peak Detect mode, under which the burrs on the falling edge of the square wave, can be detected and the noise is heavy.

  • Page 50: How To Set The Display System

    5.Advanced User Guidebook Figure 5 -30 The displayed waveform after the noise is removed und er the Average Mode, in which the ave rage number of 16 is set. How to Set the Display System Press th e Display button and the menu displayed in the screen is shown as Figure 5-31.
  • Page 51 5.Advanced User Guidebook Display Type: With the F1 menu selection button pushed down, you can shift between Vect and Dots types. The differences between the two display types can be observed through the comparison between Figure 5-32 and Figure 5-33. Figure 5-32 Display in the Vector Form Figure 5-33 Display in Dots form Persist...
  • Page 52 5.Advanced User Guidebook OFF, 1second, 2second, 5second and Infinity. When the "Infinity" option is set for Persist time, the measuring points will be stored till the controlling value is changed (see Figure 5-34). By pressing the F2 button, the persistence will be cleared. Figure 5-34 Infinite Persistence Display XY Format This format is only applicable to Channel 1 and Channel 2.
  • Page 53 5.Advanced User Guidebook Operation steps: 1. Press the Display button and call out the Display Set Menu. 2. Press the H3 menu selection button to set XY Mode ON. The display format is changed to be XY mode (see Figure 5-35). Figure 5-35 XY Display Mode Cymometer It is a 6-digit cymometer.

  • Page 54: How To Save And Recall A Waveform

    (see " " on P44); Record Length Menu External the file name is editable. The waveform file could be open by OWON waveform analysis software (on the supplied CD). When the type is Setting, the menu shows as following:...
  • Page 55 5.Advanced User Guidebook Setting1 ….. Setting The setting address Setting8 Save the current oscilloscope setting to the Save internal storage Load Recall the setting from the selected address When the type is Image, the menu shows as following: Save the current display screen. The file can be only stored in a USB storage, so a Save USB storage must be connected first.
  • Page 56 5.Advanced User Guidebook Figure 5-37 Wave Saving Tip: Whatever the Type of save menu is set, you can save the waveform by just pressing the Copy panel button in any user interface. If the Storage of the save menu is set as "External", you should install the USB disk.

  • Page 57: How To Record/Playback Waveforms

    5.Advanced User Guidebook Delete the last character End and store Switch between Close the keyboard capital and small Figure 5-38 Edit the File Name How to Record/Playback Waveforms Wave Record function can record the input current wave. You can set the interval between recorded frames in the range of 1ms~1000s.The max frame number reaches 1000,and you can get better analysis effect with playback and storage function.
  • Page 58 5.Advanced User Guidebook Figure 5-39 Wave Record Playback: Play back the wave recorded or saved. Playback menu shows as follows: Menu Setting Instruction Start frame Turn the M knob to select the number of start frame to playback (1～1000) End frame Turn the M knob to select the number of end frame Playback Mode to playback (1～1000)
  • Page 59 5.Advanced User Guidebook Figure 5-40 Wave Playback Storage: Save the current wave according to the start frame and end frame set. Storage menu shows as follows: Menu Setting Instruction Turn the M knob to select the number of start frame Start frame Storage to store (1～1000)

  • Page 60: How To Implement The Auxiliary System Function Setting

    5.Advanced User Guidebook To use wave record function, do as follows: (1) Press Save button. (2) Press H1 button, turn the M knob to choose Record. (3) Press H2 button. In the Mode menu, press F2 button to choose Record. (4) Press H3 button.
  • Page 61 5.Advanced User Guidebook Function Menu Setting Description Chinese Choose the display language of the operating Language English system. Others Display On/Off the date display Set Time Hour Min Setting Hour/Minute Day Month Setting Date/Month Year Setting Year Lock all keys. Unlock method: press 50% KeyLock button in trigger control area, then press Force button, repeat 3 times.
  • Page 62 5.Advanced User Guidebook The description of Adjust Menu is shown as the follows: Function Menu Setting Description Self Cal Carry out the self-calibration procedure. Default Call out the factory settings. Do Self Cal (Self-Calibration) The self-calibration procedure can improve the accuracy of the oscilloscope under the ambient temperature to the greatest extent.
  • Page 63 5.Advanced User Guidebook The description of Pass/Fail Menu is shown as the follows: Function Menu Setting Description Enable Control enable switch operate Operate Control operate switch Pass Signal tested corresponds with the rule Fail Signal tested not correspond with the rule Output Beep Beep when it satisfies the rule...
  • Page 64 5.Advanced User Guidebook Figure 5-47 Pass/Fail test Note: 1. When Pass/Fail is ON, if XY or FFT is ready to run, then Pass/Fail will be closed; under the mode of XY or FFT, Pass/Fail is unable. 2. Under the mode of Factory, Auto Scale and Auto Set, Pass/Fail will be closed. 3.
  • Page 65 5.Advanced User Guidebook ● LAN Set Using the LAN port, the oscilloscope can be connected with a computer directly, or through the router to connect. The network parameters can be set in the menu below. Press the Utility button and turn the M knob to select the LAN Set to go to the following menu.
  • Page 66 5.Advanced User Guidebook Figure 5-50 Set the network parameters of the computer (3) Set the network parameters of the OWON Oscilloscope Software. Run the software on the computer, choose the "Ports-settings" of the "Communications" menu item. Set "Connect using" to LAN. About the IP, the first three bytes is same as the IP in the step (2), the last byte should be different.
  • Page 67 5.Advanced User Guidebook (4) Set the network parameters of the oscilloscope. In the oscilloscope, press the Utility button and press H1 button, turn the M knob to select the LAN Set; press the H2 button, the set menu is displayed on the right. Set the IP and the Port to the same value as the "Ports-settings"...
  • Page 68 5.Advanced User Guidebook Figure 5-53 Set the network parameters of the computer (3) Set the network parameters of the OWON Oscilloscope Software. Run the software on the computer; choose the "Ports-settings" of the "Communications" menu item. Set "Connect using" to LAN. About the IP, the first three bytes is same as the IP in the step (2), the last byte should be different.

  • Page 69: How To Measure Automatically

    5.Advanced User Guidebook (4) Set the network parameters of the oscilloscope. In the oscilloscope, press the Utility button and press H1 button, turn the M knob to select the LAN Set; press the H2 button, the set menu is displayed on the right. Set the IP and the Port to the same value as the "Ports-settings"...
  • Page 70 5.Advanced User Guidebook Figure 5-56 Measure Menu The "Automatic Measurements" menu is described as the following table: Function Menu Setting Description Type Press F1 ,show the measure types Source Select the source Show all Show all the measures on the screen Add the selected measure types (shown at the left bottom, you could only add 8 types at most)

  • Page 71: The Automatic Measurement Of Voltage Parameters

    5.Advanced User Guidebook M knob to choose Period. 5. Press the F4 button, the period options added completes. 6. Press the F1 button again, the type items will display at the left of screen, and turn the M to choose Freq. 7.
  • Page 72 5.Advanced User Guidebook Figure 5-58 Vpp: Peak-to-Peak Voltage. Vmax: The maximum amplitude. The most positive peak voltage measured over the entire waveform. Vmin: The minimum amplitude. The most negative peak voltage measured over the entire waveform. Vamp: Voltage between Vtop and Vbase of a waveform. Vtop: Voltage of the waveform's flat top, useful for square/pulse waveforms.

  • Page 73: How To Measure With Cursors

    5.Advanced User Guidebook Figure 5-59 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 74 5.Advanced User Guidebook Function Setting Description Menu Switch off the cursor measurement. Type Voltage Display the voltage measurement cursor and menu. Time Display the time measurement cursor and menu. Display the channel generating the waveform to Source which the cursor measurement will be applied. When carrying out the cursor measurement, the position of Cursor 1 can be adjusted with the VERTICAL POSITION knob of Channel 1, and that of Cursor 2 can be adjusted with the VERTICAL POSITION knob of Channel 2.
  • Page 75 5.Advanced User Guidebook channel CH1: 1. Press Cursor and recall the Cursor Measure menu. 2. Press the H2 button and choose CH1 for Source. 3. Press the H1 button, the Type menu will display at the right of the screen. Press the F3 button to select Time for Type, with two purple dotted lines displayed along the vertical direction of the screen, which indicating Cursor 1 and Cursor 2.
  • Page 76 5.Advanced User Guidebook Figure 5-63 CURS MEAS Menu The description of the cursor measurement menu is shown as the following table: Function Setting Description Menu Switch off the cursor measurement. Type Vamp Display the Vamp measurement cursor and menu. Freq Display the Freq measurement cursor and menu.
  • Page 77 5.Advanced User Guidebook Figure 5-64 wave of Vamp cursor measurement Carry out the following operation steps for the Freq cursor measurement: 1. Press Cursor and recall the Cursor Measure menu. 2. Press the H1 button, the Type menu will display at the right of the screen. Press the F3 button to select Freq for Type, with two purple dotted lines displayed along the vertical direction of the screen indicating the corresponding Cursor 1 and Cursor 2.

  • Page 78: How To Use Autoscale

    5.Advanced User Guidebook Figure 5-65 wave of Freq cursor measurement How to Use Autoscale This is a very useful function for first time users to carry out a simple and quick test on the input signal. The function is applied to follow-up signals automatically even if the signals change at any time.
  • Page 79 5.Advanced User Guidebook Follow-up and adjust both vertical and horizontal settings. Follow-up and only adjust horizontal scale. Mode Follow-up and only adjust vertical scale. Show Multi-period waveforms. Wave Only show one or two periods. If you want to measure the two-channel signal, you can do as the follows: 1.

  • Page 80: How To Use Built-In Help

    5.Advanced User Guidebook 4. At the mode of Autoscale, DSO is always set as DC coupling with AUTO triggering. In this case, making Triggering or Coupling settings have no effect. 5. At the mode of Autoscale, if adjust the vertical position, voltage division, trigger level or time scale of CH1 or CH2, the oscilloscope will turn off Autoscale function.
  • Page 81 5.Advanced User Guidebook Run/Stop: Enable or disable sampling on input signals. Notice: When there is no sampling at STOP state, the vertical division and the horizontal time base of the waveform still can be adjusted within a certain range, in other words, the signal can be expanded in the horizontal or vertical direction.

  • Page 82: 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. 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 Coefficient"...

  • Page 83: Example 2: Gain Of A Amplifier In A Metering Circuit

    6.Demonstration settings of channel 2. Then, the period, frequency, mean and peak-to-peak voltage will be displayed at the bottom left of the screen and change periodically (see Figure 6-1). Figure 6-1 Measure Frequency and PK-PK 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.

  • Page 84: Example 3: Capturing A Single Signal

    6.Demonstration of the screen (see Figure 6-2). (9) 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 85 6.Demonstration (6) Press the Trigger Menu button to display the Trigger menu. (7) Press the H1 button to display the Trigger Type menu. (8) Press the F1 to choose Single as the type. (9) Turn the M knob to choose Edge as the mode. (10) Press the H2 button to display the Source menu.

  • Page 86: 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 87: Example 5: Application Of X-Y Function

    6.Demonstration (2) Press the H1 button to display ACQU Mode menu. (3) Press the F3 button, turn the M knob and 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 88 6.Demonstration (4) Turn the VOLTS/DIV knob, making the amplitudes of two signals equal in the rough. (5) Press the Display button and recall the Display menu. (6) Press the H3 button and choose XY Mode as ON. The oscilloscope will display the input and terminal characteristics of the network in the Lissajous graph form.

  • Page 89: Example 6: Video Signal Trigger

    6.Demonstration 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: (1) Press the Trigger Menu button to display the trigger menu.

  • Page 90: Troubleshooting

    7.Troubleshooting 7. Troubleshooting 1. Oscilloscope is powered on but no Display. Check whether the power connection is connected properly. Check whether the power switch is pushed down to the designated position. Check whether the fuse which is beside the is blew (the cover AC power input jack can be pried open with a straight screwdriver).

  • Page 91: Technical Specifications

    8.Technical Specifications 8. Technical Specifications Unless otherwise specified, the technical specifications applied are for SDS series 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 92 8.Technical Specifications Performance Characteristics Instruction Channel –channel 50Hz: 100 : 1 10MHz: 40 : 1 isolation Time delay between 150ps channel(typical) Horizontal Dual CH 0.5S/s~250MS/s SDS6062(V) System Single CH 0.5S/s~500MS/s Dual CH 0.5S/s~500MS/s SDS7102(V) Single CH 0.5S/s~1GS/s Dual CH 0.5S/s~1GS/s SDS8102(V) Single CH 0.5S/s~2GS/s...
  • Page 93 8.Technical Specifications Performance Characteristics Instruction ≤400MS/s 10M Dual CH 800MS/s 1.6GS/s SDS9302 ≤800MS/s 10M Single CH 1.6GS/s 3.2GS/s 5ns/div～100s/div, SDS6062(V) step by 1～2～5 2ns/div～100s/div, SDS7102(V) step by 1～2～5 2ns/div～100s/div, SDS8102(V) Scanning speed step by 1～2～5 1ns/div～100s/div, (S/div) SDS8202(V) step by 1～2～5 1ns/div～100s/div, SDS8302 step by 1～2～5...
  • Page 94 8.Technical Specifications Performance Characteristics Instruction SDS6062(V) ≤5.8ns (at input, Typical) SDS7102(V) ≤3.5ns (at input, Typical) SDS8102(V) ≤3.5ns (at input, Typical) Rise time SDS8202(V) ≤1.7ns (at input, Typical) SDS8302 ≤1.17ns (at input, Typical) SDS9302 ≤1.17ns (at input, Typical) DC accuracy ±3% DC accuracy Average﹥16: ±(3% rdg + 0.05 div) for △...
  • Page 95 8.Technical Specifications Trigger: Performance Characteristics Instruction Internal ±6 div from the screen center Trigger level range ±600mV EXT/5 ±3V Internal ±0.3div Trigger level ±(40mV + 6% of Set Value) Accuracy (typical) EXT/5 ±(200mV +6% of Set Value) Trigger According to Record length and time base displacement Trigger Holdoff 100ns~10s...

  • Page 96: General Technical Specifications

    8.Technical Specifications General Technical Specifications Display Display Type 8" Colored LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) Display Resolution 800 (Horizontal) × 600 (Vertical) Pixels Display Colors 65536 colors, TFT screen Output of the Probe Compensator Output Voltage About 5V, with the Peak-to-Peak ≥1MΩ.

  • Page 97: Appendix

    9.Appendix 9. Appendix Appendix A: Enclosure Standard Accessories: A pair of Passive probe: 1.2 m, 1:1 (10:1) 1x CD (PC link application software) 1x Power cord: up to the standards of the country in which it is used. 1x USB cable 1x User Manual Options: Battery...

  • Page 98: Appendix C: Battery Using Guide

    9.Appendix Appendix C: Battery Using Guide Battery level indicator 、 、 and include: Figure 9-1 Battery level indicator Charging the oscilloscope Connect the power cord to a power source. Turn on the Power Switch Button ― ○ on the left side (make sure the "―" side is pressed down). Yellow light of the indicator on the front panel means the battery is being charged.

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