Mike Harrison wrote:
> Incidentally the Agilents zoom around the centre (or optionally one div
> from the left or right side - I prefer the left option as most of the
> time you are interested in what happens after the trigger).

Exactly.  I usually have the trigger one division from the left edge.  After
all, an analog scope basically has the trigger permanently fixed at the left
edge.  Tek committed a major blunder by not at least making their digital
scope capable of acting like an old fashioned analog scope many people will
be used to.  It doesn't have to be the only mode, but it should be there.

I still don't understand why there has to be a mode to select where to zoom
the time scale around.  Why is it that nobody implements the obvious answer
of zooming around the current trigger position, at least as an optional
mode?  It might be useful to have other modes, but that's the one I would
use 99% of the time and would be fine with as the only mode in a low end
scope.  It seems they got fancy because they could but forgot to think about
it.  It feels like the features were implemented by a bunch of software
weenies that never used a scope.  In the end the optimized for the 1% case
at the expense of the 99% case.


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