Undergrad learning Patch Clamping here. I was hoping I could imitate an oscilloscope using Clampex. My intuition tells me I have to change the connections on the Digitizer but I am unsure. Anyone who can help, you are greatly appreciated. Thank you, have a great day.
Dear Ian,
You need to go to "configuration" and set (click) the channels that you would like see in the display. It should be pretty easy and straight forward, provided that your amplifier and digitizer connected properly.
best wishes,
Refik
I think Dr. Kanjhan is right, however, there could be a problem with time scales. When I did my graduate work, doing VC for a difference current, I liked to record on a short time scale to assess quality of clamp, but use a BNC splitter to an oscilloscope so I could monitor the long time scale and identify when the current peak occurred.
Viewing both at the same time should be pretty straight forward and just specifying what channels you want to record from (in edit protocol->inputs tab->select digitizer channels) and making sure that they are hooked up correctly in lab bench (set up inputs->make sure they are scaled appropriately; pretty easy to check cables if its all MD equipment because it will give you a scaling assistant tutorial for the signal).
However, as far as I'm aware, you will only be able to view one time scale at a time in clampex which is why I decided to use the analogue oscilloscope for slow time scale current monitoring while using the PC for fast time scale monitoring.