In all the examples and when trying to use the VIs included in the picoscope3000a LLB in my own program I get PICO_INVALID_CHANNEL errors (chiefly from the error handler in picoscope3000asettings.VI at the ps3000aSetSimpleTrigger step). the 4 channel card flag is set to FLASE in all cases (correct for my card). Oddly, the only time the card acquires data without triggering an error is with the trigger disabled and the channel number set to C or D (which shouldnt exist). Sometimes the card also returns data despite the error condition stopping the program.
I am tempted to simply rip out the error trapping and see if I get good data, but would prefer to know why it is doing this - is it a known problem? I know that in some bits of the code the channels are listed D to A rather than A to D, and wonder if the channel order may be wrong in the code, but this still doesn't explain all the errors.
thanks for any help anyone can give.
I can confirm that with Trigger Enabled set to FALSE the card will only run with channels C or D selected, so it looks like the channel order is transposed.
HOWEVER, when I turn trigger Enabled on, if channel A or B is selected i still get the PICO_INVALID_CHANNEL error as above. if C or D is selected, which presumably are "valid" channels I get a PICO_INVALID_TRIGGER_PROPERTY error instead (it seems to work in EXT trigger mode, so at least I have a workable option to get data).
Is it possible to trigger from the data channels with this card (it certainly was with the previous generation picoscopes), and what do i need to do to make it work?
Mark.
