From the course: Electronics Foundations: Basic Circuits
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Oscilloscope trigger settings
From the course: Electronics Foundations: Basic Circuits
Oscilloscope trigger settings
- When using an oscilloscope to look at a signal that's constantly changing, we need to direct that oscilloscope to capture the part of the signal that we're interested in to stabilize the display so we can actually see it. Oscilloscopes have a trigger mechanism which controls when it should measure and display the signal. If you think of an oscilloscope like a photographer that's capturing snapshots of what a signal looks like at certain moments in time, the trigger controls when the photographer takes the picture and just like how a photographer might wait for a specific thing to happen before taking a photo, like waiting for all the people you're photographing to smile at the same time, we can tell the oscilloscope what signal feature it should look for by configuring the trigger type. I can view the list of available trigger types on my oscilloscope by pressing the menu button in the trigger settings and then pressing…
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