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python PS5444D MSO streaming mode, time discrepancy
python PS5444D MSO streaming mode, time discrepancy
Hi,
I want to take data (MSO-port) for long times and started to modify the "ps5000aStreamingExample" from the git repositry. So far I got no error messages and the taken date look correct. BUT if I calculate the time to take the data (by multiplying "totalSamples" with "actualSampleIntervalNs") I get a longer time than the actual measurement take. Is their something wrong in the calculation (it is just sample-intervall times the number of samples)?
Is their a way to get a flag or something similar to check if data loss occures in streaming mode? So far I connect the port D0 to the probe compensation port (@ 1 kHz) and measure the time for one period. If that time changes a lot a data loss occured.
A full example code is attached.
Thanks in advance.
I want to take data (MSO-port) for long times and started to modify the "ps5000aStreamingExample" from the git repositry. So far I got no error messages and the taken date look correct. BUT if I calculate the time to take the data (by multiplying "totalSamples" with "actualSampleIntervalNs") I get a longer time than the actual measurement take. Is their something wrong in the calculation (it is just sample-intervall times the number of samples)?
Is their a way to get a flag or something similar to check if data loss occures in streaming mode? So far I connect the port D0 to the probe compensation port (@ 1 kHz) and measure the time for one period. If that time changes a lot a data loss occured.
A full example code is attached.
Thanks in advance.
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Re: python PS5444D MSO streaming mode, time discrepancy
I don't have experience with python but it looks like you are sampling at 1MS/sec and you are doing some calculations digital channel splitting in the callback function.
I probably step on someone's toes but python is not fast enough to do the splitting and copying you seem to do in the callback.
Can you check by only copy the data in the call_back and nothing more.
also test a a lower sample rate say 500kS/sec
Benno
I probably step on someone's toes but python is not fast enough to do the splitting and copying you seem to do in the callback.
Can you check by only copy the data in the call_back and nothing more.
also test a a lower sample rate say 500kS/sec
Benno
Re: python PS5444D MSO streaming mode, time discrepancy
Thanks for the reply.
I will double check with low sample rate. However the strange thing is the measurement should take 20 s ("total samples" * "number of samples") but the time it takes is only 17 s ("measured" by taking the system time before and after the measurement).
I will double check with low sample rate. However the strange thing is the measurement should take 20 s ("total samples" * "number of samples") but the time it takes is only 17 s ("measured" by taking the system time before and after the measurement).
Re: python PS5444D MSO streaming mode, time discrepancy
Ok, found my error. I started the timing of the aquistion after I started the actual measurement.
Still my second question remains. Is their a way to check for data loss in streaming mode?
Still my second question remains. Is their a way to check for data loss in streaming mode?