TDS410 questions

[Gary Walters]

Once an event is captured (trigger has come and gone), I see a waveform fixed
on the display. I presume this is the digitized waveform now in memory.

I want to view forward and backward in the event. How do I do this? It's not
clear how to scroll through the waveform.

Must I first save the waveform? This poses a few problems.

When I go to save a waveform, I'm given the choice of saving it to different
references (ie, "Ref1", "Ref2"). When I choose a Ref, I get a bell and an
error message that says "The selected channel is not on. Only channels or
waveforms which are on can be saved." I don't know what this means. How do I
save a waveform?

Also, when I try to recall a waveform, I press the Recall Waveform button and
I see this message: "Recall a waveform by pressing the MORE button". When I
press the MORE button I am taken to the Math menu ("Math Ref." is the sub
text printed below the MORE button). I know haven't successfully saved a
waveform, but should I be getting this error?

Any suggestions to help me scroll through the captured waveform, and to save
a waveform would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[Gary Walters]

There seems to be no operator's manual for this available on-line (or at
Tek.com). The service manual is available but has little about operation.

Help!

Thanks.

 

[Gary Walters]

I've succeeded in saving a waveform and recalling it.

I see by the graphic above the graticule that the displayed waveform is only
a small part of the digitized waveform data that is saved.

I still am experimenting, trying to discover how to scroll the display to
other parts of the waveform.

??

 

[Gary Walters]

OK. Looks like I've got it.

You have to save a waveform and recall it in order to scroll through it. And
the H position is the scroll control.

Thanks for listening. ;-)

 

[JW]

On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 23:26:18 -0700 Gary Walters <gwprez@yahoo2.cz> wrote in
Message id: <0001HW.C82DEA9A04C6AABBB01AD9AF@news.eternal-september.org>:

There seems to be no operator's manual for this available on-line (or at
Tek.com). The service manual is available but has little about operation.

http://www.ko4bb.com/cgi-bin/manuals.pl?dir=Tektronix/Tektronix_-_TDS-400_Series

This manual covers the TDS410A, but may be close enough for what you need.

 

[Gary Walters]

http://www.ko4bb.com/cgi-bin/manuals.pl?dir=Tektronix/Tektronix_-_TDS-

400_Seri

es

This manual covers the TDS410A, but may be close enough for what you need.

Thanks for your suggestion.

FYI (and for future Googlers), someone uploaded the correct user manual just
recently:

<http://128.238.9.201/~kurt/manuals/manuals/Tektronix/TEK%20TDS%20410,%20420,%
20460%20User.pdf>

It covers the TDS410,420,, and 460. (The "A" series of these scopes are
sufficiently different that those manuals aren't helpful.