Would it be possible to have an arrangement where the X and Y channels switch off their comparison of each other? CRT oscilloscopes have an add button to cancel the comparison which then leaves the two channels independent.
I am wanting the X channel to be totally free running which means the signal it carries is not compared to signal Y. Pico automotive 6 has an XY mode so my question isn't related to automotive testing. Thanks for your interest.
Standard operation would be Channel A against Time, Channel B against Time. XY mode is for plotting Channel A against Channel B, so by definition linked.
So I am unsure as to the nature of your question.
Do you have a one of our scopes, if so which model ?
I too am intrigued, I am sure that I will not be able to help you with this but I am interested in learning something. Humour me if you will.
After some head scratching I have come up with a couple of thoughts;
Are you looking to display Channel A Voltage on the X Axis and Channel B Voltage on the Y Axis or vice versa ?
Or, are you trying to look at 2 inputs (Channel A & B) on 2 different time bases ???
I digress from the thread but I'm curious
I was on a Product / Scope course (not Pico - A Bright Coloured machine I bought from a van) some time ago when the Instructor bought up the subject and advantages of having 2 time bases on a scope. The example he gave was that he would want to simultaneously see Crank Position on one time base and lambda (a comparatively slower switching signal) on another, slower, time base.
To this day, 10+ years on, I cannot work out what his logic was. Lets say that scope software allowed this to happen, surely the relationship between the two and any diagnostic value, in an automotive application, would be lost and at best be misleading ??
I remember my first scope which was crt it was old then in1985 had an eternal input for the Y never used it though I think the idea was to use the time base from the circuit under test