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How does the 'Load'/'Term' affect the Waveform Generator?

Written by Paul Cracknell

Updated at March 27th, 2025

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Moku:Lab and Moku:Pro Waveform Generators have fixed 50 Ω load resistors. When you connect the output to a 50 Ω device, the output voltage distributes to the internal load and external load equally. When you connect the output to a high-z device, most of the voltage distributes to the external load.

Changing the 'Load'/'Term' on the user interface does not affect the actual driving voltage. Instead, it only changes the scale for the display. The displayed voltage under the high load is twice the displayed number under the 50 Ω load.

In the plot below, it can be seen that the 'Term' is set to 50 Ω, resulting in a voltage output of 1 Vpp.

When the 'Term' is changed to `Hi-Z`, the voltage reading changes to 2 Vpp. Although the voltage output source remains unchanged, the voltage reading in the interface is doubled because the voltage distribution on the load doubles when the load changes from 50 Ω to high impedance.

The Moku:Go has a fixed 200Ω load resistor and there is no option to change the termination. 

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