measured is the algebraic sum of the area of the whole period waveform.
Note: When the waveform on the screen is less than a period, the period area
measured is 0.
Customize an Automatic Measurement
You can customize automatic measurements by using gating and statistics.
Gating
⚫ Press the Measure button, and the automatic measurement function menu
is displayed at the bottom of the screen;
⚫ Press the Set softkey at the bottom of the screen, the setting menu
appears on the right side of the screen;
⚫ Select the Gating menu. There are two menus: Screen and Cursor under
the range. Click the Screen and then click the Cursor, or press the right
Screen menu button twice to set the cursor range.
Statistics
Select Statistics, you can choose On or Off to enable or disable statistics on
the measurement value.
Statistical selection
Statistics and display the current value, average value, minimum value (or
number of samples) and maximum value (standard deviation) of up to 8
measurement results opened last.
When the statistics function is turned on, select "Extreme Value", the current
value, average value, maximum value, and minimum value will be displayed at
the bottom of the screen; select "Difference", the current value, average value,
standard deviation, and number of samples will be displayed at the bottom of
the screen.
The number of standard deviation samples: The number of standard
deviation samples, the number of samples used to calculate the standard
deviation.
Statistics Reset: Restart statistics on statistics.
How to Measure with Cursors
Push the Cursor button to turn cursors on and display the cursor menu. Push it
again to turn cursors off.
The Cursor Measurement for normal mode:
The description of the cursor menu is shown as the following table: