On 07/04/2020 23:34, Rob Jarratt via cctalk wrote: > I have seen the suggestions to study the waveforms at a much higher > resolution. What I am doing is setting the overall timebase in the 100ms > range so that I can trigger on when the 555 starts to oscillate and capture > the whole period of operation until the SCR triggers. I can then zoom in, as > can be seen from the trace provided in this email. I hope that is good > enough, or am I missing some problem with doing it this way? >
The timebase will also affect the sampling rate (due to the finite memory depth) so some finer details of the waveform may not be captured when running at a slower rate. Matt