Change Time Base

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johnwick6
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Re: Change Time Base

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To get me started. Could I start with a 2204a scope. I know they are 20v. Where trucks are 24v

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Steve Smith
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Re: Change Time Base

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Hello and thank you for the posts and the recent reply which has highlighted the original discussion of either a tutorial for time aligning captures plotted on different time bases or adjustments to the time base itself

I will raise a New Feature Request for discussion with the software teams.

A video tutorial in the interim sounds perfect and I will add this for creation in my calendar ASAP

Regarding the 2204 in Auto Applications, could you have a read through these forum posts:

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viewtopic.php?p=97926#p97926
topic22973.html
topic22967.html

I hope this helps, take care.....Steve

PaulW
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Re: Change Time Base

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johnwick6 wrote:
Sun Jul 17, 2022 2:00 pm
To get me started. Could I start with a 2204a scope. I know they are 20v. Where trucks are 24v

MALIK66
I believe you would just use attenuators on your probes and should be ok. Look up how to change probe settings if need be. I would advise to stay away from stepped up voltages on the 24v system until you get use to the 2204a.

Steve Smith
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Re: Change Time Base

Post by Steve Smith »

Hello and thank you for the continued posts.

Just following up on the original thread suggesting time base adjustments; the following videos describe how to use a number of PicoScope features in order to correlate events between waveforms utilizing a different time base.

The PicoScope features include:
• Pico Reference Waveform Library (RWL)
• Reference waveforms
• Delay
• Scale
• Offset
• Views
• Viewports

Example 1: Downloading a waveform captured on a longer time base than your original capture
Below we have the original capture at 20 ms/div and our downloaded waveforms @ 200 ms/div
Image 1
Image 1
See video here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X1QOcg ... sp=sharing

Example 2: Downloading a waveform captured on a shorter time base than your original capture
Below we have the original capture at 200 ms/div and our downloaded waveforms @ 20 ms/div
Image 2
Image 2
See video here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WsovD6 ... sp=sharing

I hope this helps, take care……..Steve

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