Hi,
I have one Oscilloscope MSO9404A of which I am very happy.
Sorry for my poor english.
I would suggest an improvement to the software developers. In very old oscilloscope Agilent (es: 54642D) the Voltage level and Time Base were anchored respectively to the GND trace position (for Voltage) and Trigger position (for Time Base). In the new software (eg: 3.50.0003 and earlier) the anchor is the center of screen (X and Y) for both Voltage Level and Time Base. This behavior is not the best in my opinion. The trigger is not always in the center of the screen, can be positioned at right or at the left. If you move a Time base (decrese time base for zoom in), the trigger disappears from the screen and are forced to use horizontal scrooll to search the trigger. If the time base was anchored to the trigger that does not happen. The same applies to Voltage level.
Another change is the trigger position. At center is ok, but right and left is not good. The position for right and left should be a picture before the end of the screen and not at the extreme right or left. If you make the zoom at that point you do not see the beginning of the sequence but only the trigger point.
What do you think ?
secureasm
I have one Oscilloscope MSO9404A of which I am very happy.
Sorry for my poor english.
I would suggest an improvement to the software developers. In very old oscilloscope Agilent (es: 54642D) the Voltage level and Time Base were anchored respectively to the GND trace position (for Voltage) and Trigger position (for Time Base). In the new software (eg: 3.50.0003 and earlier) the anchor is the center of screen (X and Y) for both Voltage Level and Time Base. This behavior is not the best in my opinion. The trigger is not always in the center of the screen, can be positioned at right or at the left. If you move a Time base (decrese time base for zoom in), the trigger disappears from the screen and are forced to use horizontal scrooll to search the trigger. If the time base was anchored to the trigger that does not happen. The same applies to Voltage level.
Another change is the trigger position. At center is ok, but right and left is not good. The position for right and left should be a picture before the end of the screen and not at the extreme right or left. If you make the zoom at that point you do not see the beginning of the sequence but only the trigger point.
What do you think ?
secureasm
That's great!
> Sorry for my poor english.
No apology necessary. It's actually quite good!
> I would suggest an improvement to the software developers. In very old oscilloscope Agilent (es: 54642D) the Voltage level and Time Base were anchored respectively to the GND trace position (for Voltage) and Trigger position (for Time Base). In the new software (eg: 3.50.0003 and earlier) the anchor is the center of screen (X and Y) for both Voltage Level and Time Base. This behavior is not the best in my opinion. The trigger is not always in the center of the screen, can be positioned at right or at the left. If you move a Time base (decrese time base for zoom in), the trigger disappears from the screen and are forced to use horizontal scrooll to search the trigger. If the time base was anchored to the trigger that does not happen. The same applies to Voltage level.
This scope works essentially the same as all of the Infiniium scopes, which have been out for more than 10 years. I don't think that it works exactly as you have said.
Voltage is tied to Ground, but Ground can be anywhere on or off screen. You can change the location of Ground by turning the vertical position (offset) knob. If you push on the knob, the offset changes to 0, putting Ground back to the middle of the screen. You can also move the ground icon, on the right side of the screen, with the mouse.
The time reference can be either at the center, left or right of the screen. Changing the delay (turning the knob) moves the waveform to the left or right. Pushing the knob sets it to 0, back to the chosen reference point.
You can also move the waveform on the screen using the mouse.
Also, there is a Gray and Black area, with a sinusoidal waveform on it, above the screen. That shows what portion of captured memory is on the screen, and, with a vertical orange bar, where the trigger is.
You should really look in the help file. There are many things that you can do with the display, especially using the right mouse button, including zooming in and out.
> Another change is the trigger position. At center is ok, but right and left is not good. The position for right and left should be a picture before the end of the screen and not at the extreme right or left. If you make the zoom at that point you do not see the beginning of the sequence but only the trigger point.
Pictures would help. I don't know exactly what you are describing. I seldom move the trigger reference point away from the middle. Since it's possible to capture much more data than you would ever want to see at once, there's very little reason to move the reference point.
> What do you think ?
I think it's different, and very complex, but it has many more capabilities than the older scopes. You just haven't discovered them yet.
> secureasm
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