The oscilloscope is used to analyze different information coming from the circuit to debug or find characteristics, including:
Voltage (DC and AC)
and more such as time periods
This guide will be a BASIC oscilloscope example/tutorial using DC, a more advanced guide using AC is here
If you would like a manual, it can be found here
The oscilloscope has four inputs, color coded with:
Yellow
Green
Blue
Red
For simple analysis, only one input is needed, in this guide we will only use the Yellow input
HOW TO USE
The circuit in the photo is a simple circuit with a resistor(1kΩ) and an LED connected through a breadboard, the leads on the ends is how we will supply the votage
You could use a 9V battery for this, or you could use the DC Power Supply
Step 1: Turn on oscilloscope, the power button is located on the lower left corner of the oscilloscope
Step 2: Find the oscilloscope leads in the drawer (first photo) then connect it to the yellow terminal (second photo). This one has to be inserted and turned clockwise to be "locked"
Step 3: Connect the ground terminal (alligator clip) to one side of the resistor and the clip the other to the other side of the resistor
This will measure the voltage across the resistor
Step 4: Select "default setup", this will reset the oscilloscope
Step 5: Make sure the circuit is being supplied a voltage and the LED is on, once that is good, select the "1" soft-key, the one in yellow. When it is on the soft-key will light up a lime-green color. This indicated that it is reading information from the first channel
Step 6: The larger nob above the "1" soft-key will change the scaling of the vertical axis. Or you can select the "autoscale" button
Congrats! You have successfully measured the voltage across the resistor. This process can be repeated for any electronic component. You can read what the voltage is by looking at the scaling on the y-axis, or look at the top right of the display, in this photo it says "6.95V"
To clean up:
Turn off the oscilloscope
Turn off the voltage supply (make sure the circuit is not being powered)
Disconnect and put away all leads
Clean up circuit area
This was a basic introduction to the oscilloscope using DC voltage, in this tutorial, we will use AC voltage and use the oscilloscope to read values