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Development with a $12,000 oscilloscope!

Posted on January 25, 2013February 18, 2017 by Ian C.

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 …

Shorn by Sean

Posted on January 19, 2013February 18, 2017 by Ian C.

While I was “up north”, we had the trees in the front dramatically trimmed, by Sean (who also maintains our lawns); 8002 looks much better now!

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A day at Magic Kingdom

Posted on January 6, 2013February 18, 2017 by Ian C.

We gambled with the weather today, and won! Overcast turned to sunny and warm, and the predicted rain still has not arrived … what’s more, Magic Kingdom was finally less busy, with shorter queues and less crowds; a good park day, captured in this video:

After arriving and parking surprisingly close to the entrance, we had lunch at the Polynesian resort, then took the boat to the park, and visited Pirates of the Caribbean, Country Bear Jamboree, Haunted Mansion, It’s a Small World, Winnie The Pooh, and the new Ariel Under Sea ride – then left the park via an ice cream stop, and monorail back to parking!