Lessons Learned / Best Practices

Table Tricks

You can easily copy a table to Excel by doing a copy / paste function. It will be nicely formatted when you open the spreadsheet. Also if you go to the Page Defaults tab on the Table Setup (double click anywhere on the table) you will see a selection to ‘Use text for Frequency on [...]

Log limit lines in graphs

To make sure that your data will be calculated correctly against a log limit line, make sure that you select ‘Continuous (Log)’ on the limit line.

After your TE comes back from Cal

  After your test equipment comes back from calibration the GPIB address may have changed, or an instrument you substituted required you to change the driver GPIB address.  This note is here as a reminder to check for that.  You probably will not read this before you call me, but atleast I can say "I [...]