Acquiring and Displaying Waveforms
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TDS 500D, TDS 600B, & TDS 700D User Manual
To choose a palette of 13 colors from a menu of preset palettes:
1. Choose the starting palette by selecting Palette from the main menu.
2. Select one of the available palettes in the side menu. Choose from Normal,
Bold, Hardcopy Preview or Monochrome.
3. If you are using a persistence display and want to vary the color of each
point depending on its persistence, choose Persistence Palettes. Then
choose Temperature, Spectral, or Gray Scale from the resulting side menu.
Choose View Palette to preview your selection on the display. Press
Persistence Palette to quit preview mode. Press Clear Menu to return to the
Palette menu.
NOTE. Use at higher room temperatures or with higher intensity display formats,
such as the white fields in the Hardcopy Preview palette, can temporarily
degrade display quality.
You can select the Hardcopy Preview palette when using certain color hardcopy
formats. The default colors in the this palette comprise a white background and
fully saturated primary colors which generally produce the best result.
To change the color of the current palette, select a color and vary these attributes:
Hue, which is the wavelength of light reflected from the surface. It varies
continuously along the color spectrum as produced by a rainbow. Hue is not
available on monochrome oscilloscopes.
Lightness, which is the amount of light reflected from the surface. It varies from
black, to the nominal color, to white.
Saturation, which is the intensity of color. Completely desaturated color is gray.
Completely saturated color of any hue is that color at its most intense level.
Saturation is not available on monochrome oscilloscopes.
1. Color oscilloscopes: Select the main menu Change Colors item. (See
Figure 3ā22.)
If changing the colors of a persistence palette: press Palette (main) ā
Persistence Palettes (side) ā View Palette (main). Then select the palette
you want to change from the side menu and select the main menu Change
Colors for item.
Choose a Palette
Change the Palette Colors
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