Getting Started
TDS1000/2000-Series Digital Oscilloscope User Manual 7
Probe Check Wizard
You can use the Probe Check Wizard to quickly verify that your
probe is operating properly. The wizard also helps you adjust the
probe compensation(usually adjusted with a screw on the probe
body or probe connector) and set the Probe option at tenuation factor
in the vertical menu (for example, the menu that appearswhen you
push the CH 1 MENU button).
You should do this each time youconne ct a probe to an input
channel.
To use the Probe Check Wizard, push the PROBE CHECKbut ton. If
your probe is connected properly, compensated properly, and the
Probe entry in the oscilloscope VERTICAL menu is set to match
your probe, the oscilloscope will display a PASSEDmessage at the
bottom of the screen.Otherwise, the oscilloscope will display
directions on the screen to guide you in c orrecting these problems.
NOTE. Probe check is useful for 1X, 10X, and 100X probes; it does
not work with the EXT TRIG front-panel BNC.
To compensate a probe connected to the EXT TRIG front-panel
BNC, follow t hese steps:
1. Connect the probe to any channel BNC, such a st o CH1.
2. Push the PROBE CHECK button and follow the directions on the
screen.
3. After you verify that the probe functions properl y and is
compensated, connect theprobe to the EXT TRIG BNC.