TDS400A Digital Storage Oscilloscopes
For professionals who demand high precision and fidelity from their measurements, the TDS400A Digital Storage Scopes combine excellent performance and broad feature set, all at affordable prices. A choice of 2 and 4 channel models ranging from 200 MHz to 400 MHz with a 100 MS/s sample rate on all channels makes the TDS400A Series a worthy fit for a variety of demanding applications.
The highly featured, portable and easy to use TDS420A, 430A and 460A personal lab scopes are ideal for simple to complex applications, including electro-mechanical research and analysis, power electronics/power supply design, bio-physical research and analysis, and digital and analog design. With its standard video trigger capability, the scopes are ideal instruments for measuring video signals including NTSC, PAL and SECAM.
The TDS400A Series uses the renowned TDS Graphical User Interface which offers intuitive icon-based menus along with help text, making scope operation extremely simple. Knobs and buttons allow easy selection of commonly used scope functions. The standard floppy disk drive makes the saving of screen images or data to a disk simple. The disk can then be inserted into your PC for importing to desktop publishing or spreadsheet programs.
Signal Acquisition System
| TDS 430A 1 | TDS 420A | TDS 460A |
| Bandwidth | 400 MHz | 200 MHz | 400 MHz* |
| Channels | 2 | 4 | 4 |
| Digitizers | 2 | 4 | 4 |
| Sample Rate | 100 MS/sec on all channels |
| Sensitivity | 1 mV to 10 V/div (with calibrated fine adjust) |
| Position Range | ± 5 Divisions |
| Offset Range | ± 1 V from 1 to 99.5 mV/div
± 10 V from 100 mV to 995 mV/div
± 100 V from 1 to 10 V/div |
1 400 MHz typical at the probe tip with P6138A probes.