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Oscilloscope Zoom Out Quirk
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nctnico:

--- Quote from: tautech on June 10, 2020, 11:37:13 am ---Publish it Dave as there is further discussion required as to why an operator cannot adapt to suit the tools at their disposal right at their fingertips.

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There is no sense in doing that. You are trying to argue that a front-wheel drive car is suitable for driving on muddy dirt roads and it is the driver's fault when a car gets stuck.  :palm:  Sometimes the wrong tool simply is the wrong tool. Just go tell Siglent to turn their scopes into 4 wheel drive models; that would be actually useful. Suggesting history mode just goes to show that you really have no idea on what the actual use case is!
EEVblog:

--- Quote from: tautech on June 10, 2020, 11:37:13 am ---
--- Quote from: EEVblog on June 10, 2020, 10:44:54 am ---If you have something to share that I missed then you'd better tell me right now, because I leave home in 30 minutes and the video gets auto published tomorrow while I'm sleeping.
If you are referring to Zoom mode, then nope, makes no difference in this instance.

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Publish it Dave as there is further discussion required as to why an operator cannot adapt to suit the tools at their disposal right at their fingertips.

Many could learn how easy it is to access the continually refreshed History buffer where the entire DSO's memory is available to inspect just as easily as using a timebase control without the obvious limitations your investigations revealed.
Dave MathCAD should do some work on History.  :popcorn:

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Err, history mode does NOT show you the data outside the display window, which is the entire point of this whole thing.
The Siglent might have continuous history mode, but it's limited to the screen and the 100k points at 5us/div.
And that continuous mode doesn't work in single shot mode anyway.
Your argument has absolutely nothing to do with this discussion.
maginnovision:
Not to mention history isn't unique to Siglent. Not zooming out almost IS unique to Siglent.
WKibler:
I can confirm my Tek DSA602A will not zoom out. In case anyone was wondering. We will see if Tektronix puts out a firmware update. Fingers crossed. LOL
jjoonathan:
The question is "what does the scope do by default when it has extra memory beyond what's used by the configured acquisition." The three answers I've seen are "waste it," "extend the acquisition," and "hold on to past acquisitions." Wasting it is dumb, extending the acquisition is nice, but history is my favorite:



Maybe if I were doing a lot of serial decoding and running into partial packets my preference would flip. History (aka configured-by-default segmented memory) is still pretty nice for serial though. Of course, in both cases, it's just a default, and you can still configure the other behavior if you want. Personally I think widening the acquisition and activating a zoom window is slightly easier than configuring segmented memory, but only slightly.
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