Hey everyone so I've bought myself a Rigol DS1054z and today I thought I'd have a look at the PWM signal coming to my servos on my RC plane and this is what I found this clearly isn't what a PWM signal is supposed to look like so I'm not sure what is going wrong with my scope to be showing this
Thanks in advance if anyone is able to shed some light on this
Let me guess... you're a novice at scoposcopy, right? Permit me to make a few suggestions, which may help you to avoid certain pitfalls in the future.
1. RTFM. There is a lot of useful information in the User's Manual for the DS1054z. Like for instance how to do screensaves that are perfect in resolution and much smaller in filesize than your nice photograph. And how to do basic connections to a Device Under Test. And how to turn off protocol decoding when it is irrelevant to your desired measurement.
2. Read the various oscilloscope training threads on this forum. The oscilloscope is the King of Test Equipment and the more knowledge you have the more useful it will be for you.
3. Watch Dave's video on how not to blow up your scope. I'm not kidding, you can get yourself into real trouble if you poke around where you shouldn't.
4. Don't even consider "scoping the mains" until you fully understand the dangers to life and property.