I just noticed the different behaviour of channel 1 & 2 and 3 & 4 when running some noise measurements on a switching psu.
Tried to setup a poor mans differential probe on channel 1 and 3, but then ran into this problem that I don't understand.
AC Trigger coupling and trigger point where just randomly chosen. They don't influence the problem that I have.
On the 200mV scale and above channel 3 & 4 also work as expected, on the 100mV scale and below it offsets with the higher DC voltages. (>24V)
I'm looking forward to your results.
Through improper use of the instrument I can get some offset on channel 3.....but it's negative !
I don't quite understand the use case and why you need AC Trigger coupling and why the Trigger point is off to the left of the display.
I'm not making excuses just asking why you'd need to use a DSO in this way ?
I'll have a look at some of this behavior later today.
In summary, garbage in garbage out !
And some user error.
So let's step back and examine what you are doing.
AC Line triggering on ch 1 and examining ch3 but not at line frequency related timebase settings. Why on earth would you even attempt to ? Garbage will always result.
So if we want to properly examine ch3 we'd set the triggering to do so and it's nothing to do with mains line frequency at all. If there is a standing voltage on this rail we'd select channel input AC coupling and Trigger DC coupling and then we can adjust input attenuation to magnify any waveform riding on the rail.
Whenever you set a scope for examination of anything, the trigger source and type is of utmost importance and to get this wrong delivers only garbage to the display. The use case for AC trigger coupling is quite rare and it's a good idea to not even consider using it.
For some study see Daves vid:
https://www.eevblog.com/2014/11/20/eevblog-685-what-is-oscilloscope-ac-trigger-coupling/Hope this helps.