At PG Trionic Inc, we recently purchased a new ($12,000) powerful oscilloscope, a tool that displays voltage waveforms, and helps to understand signals, timings, etc. This new ‘scope offers both the traditional (4) analog signals, and also 16 digital signals – right now I’m monitoring 7 signals on this new 48V bidirectional motor controller that we’re developing; a big advantage over our other “only 4 channel” ‘scopes is that I can now monitor both the control signals from the processor, and the resulting motor signals. The new ‘scope also offers a touch screen interface, one of the first on the market! While not as sophisticated as iPads/etc, it definitely makes some tasks easier …
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Where did he go?
I forgot it would be useful so soon with the new h-bridge. Are you getting used to it, what’s your opinion vs the Tek?
PS: Tough getting all those probes on such a small board!
Robert, there he is, just below your comment 🙂
Josh, yes getting those probes in was tricky – especially with “limited vision”! Not needing CANbus right now, but already 4 digital and 2 analog signals at once is a big help. I’m seeing unexpected spikes on the digitals, not sure if it’s a board problem or just some sort of ground bounce due to where the scope ground is connected.
It’s taking a little while to find where some functions are, but others are easier to find than on the Tek – overall I think it will be good, just different, but much more powerful.