hi omnium Picoscope 6 has a range of measurement options built in you can set to display automatically or you can use 2 adjustable rulers to measure between specific points. You can also capture the signal and measure it or do it in "real time" If you don't have the software - download it and it wil...

Hi Martyn If you are working on new features can I renew my call to improve the start/stop capture buttons? When using the rs232 serial decoding for example and waiting for a triggered signal I often find I can't tell if it is actually going to capture or not. (The buttons could be bigger too and th...

This sounds a bit like my own comment a while back - see thread:
www.picotech.com/support/post19727.html#p19727
That's 3 of us anyway!

This is the trouble with designing a good PC based scope - we always
want it to do more

Hi Ziko - I tend to find the zoom (and capture) features of pico 6 a bit cumbersome to use and it doesn't quite do the job. I can guess why you may have been told this can't be done - I suspect you are right about the digital timebase. Presumably it's a granularity issue with the A to D or something...

Hi Mech Sorry - if I only had time! Sadly I'm a scope user not designer although I probably wouldn't turn the work down if offered! Perhaps Pico could organise some sort of "design collective" to work on some of the suggestions they don't see as priorities but others may still find useful. Some sort...

oww nice tip Tom I think I'll give this a go myself.
Could be a good one for a FAQ.

Sorry to take so long to respond.
I've turned down the rate as Tom suggested - this seems to have
done the trick. Thanks to all.

(new fangled digital gadgetry - snif snort mumble.... )

Hi Ziko I use a 4224. Just a simple square wave - maybe 30 cycles of about 600uS pulse width variable by about 20%. About 3 sets captured. Nothing too large I don't think unless I'm doing something wrong or just badly. Can you think of anything I may not be doing that could cause this? I notice no o...

I don't see any hardware listed in this thread. Maybe the issue is hardware? You seem to have checked your OS. I assume you have tried a complete uninstall - ran a registry cleaner and then re-installed. Perhaps if you listed your hardware specs something may be of interest. I suggest this as I run ...

Not specifically refresh but related I think ... Could you do something about the response time when stopping one capture - clearing the display - and restarting a new capture? It usually takes 4 - 5 seconds for the new capture to start and sometimes it just doesn't start and the button needs to be ...

Hi Ziko You could implement it as a fully variable timebase grid (instead of the current fixed step size grids - 5ms/ 10ms/ etc ) or as a simple overlay on top of the main trace with big fat coloured grid lines you can see at a glance over a shoulder (old fogies like me tend to have poor eyesight......

I don't know if this would be any use to anyone else but I've been working with various pulse trains (manchester/nrz etc) and sometimes have to keep moving the measuring bars around to identify time period windows. The fixed axis and zooming in doesn't really do it if you need to keep changing thing...

I don't know if this is relevant but I read in passing the other
day that some USB devices don't like being on the same hub as others.

It can be a power issue or perhaps a conflict issue I don't know.
Just thought I'd mention it in case.

john

Good to know - thanks Peter.

V6_4_10

Does the existing version need to be uninstalled first or can
they reside side by side? (Vista 32 bit)