PicoScope 7 Software
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Thank you for your interest and kind words, Avi. There are a few posts in this thread about using the FRA application for impedance analysis. Wim Huyghe has made a helper application that uses the CSV output of the FRA app. Here's a post about it: viewtopic.php?p=141096#p141096avi.patel001 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 30, 2020 9:57 pmHello Folks
First of all, Aeron, it's really great work. I am new to picoscope and FRA4scope software; I don't know how to use the FR4Scope, My main goal is to Analyze the Impedance; can you please guide me on how to do this and how to use the FRA4scope software.
Regards
Avi
Thank you for sticking with it! I realize the information is kind of scattered. Picotech wrote a very helpful app note on basic usage (https://www.picotech.com/download/broch ... n-note.pdf) which I should probably link to the Wiki (https://bitbucket.org/hexamer/fra4picoscope/wiki/Home). I did recently update the information in settings which might also be useful if you need to dive in to more advanced use: https://bitbucket.org/hexamer/fra4picos ... umentation
Hello I have read that and installed that, I just downloaded your software and when I connect the picoscope with my laptop but in the FRA4Picoscope it says "no compatible picoscope device not found"hexamer wrote: ↑Mon Nov 02, 2020 1:23 amThank you for your interest and kind words, Avi. There are a few posts in this thread about using the FRA application for impedance analysis. Wim Huyghe has made a helper application that uses the CSV output of the FRA app. Here's a post about it: viewtopic.php?p=141096#p141096avi.patel001 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 30, 2020 9:57 pmHello Folks
First of all, Aeron, it's really great work. I am new to picoscope and FRA4scope software; I don't know how to use the FR4Scope, My main goal is to Analyze the Impedance; can you please guide me on how to do this and how to use the FRA4scope software.
Regards
Avi
Good luck, and remember there's plenty of people here that would be glad to help!
Hi Avi,avi.patel001 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 02, 2020 9:46 pmHello I have read that and installed that, I just downloaded your software and when I connect the picoscope with my laptop but in the FRA4Picoscope it says "no compatible picoscope device not found"
Hello Aaronhexamer wrote: ↑Tue Nov 03, 2020 1:16 pmHi Avi,avi.patel001 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 02, 2020 9:46 pmHello I have read that and installed that, I just downloaded your software and when I connect the picoscope with my laptop but in the FRA4Picoscope it says "no compatible picoscope device not found"
Couple of important questions here:
1) Did you also install the latest 32 bit Picotech SDK?
2) What PicoScope model are you using?
Thanks,
Aaron.
This happens to me mostly when the PicoScope 6 software is still running and occupying the USB Port. (Sometimes only in the background only visible in the task-manager).avi.patel001 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 02, 2020 9:46 pmHello I have read that and installed that, I just downloaded your software and when I connect the picoscope with my laptop but in the FRA4Picoscope it says "no compatible picoscope device not found"
Avi,avi.patel001 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 04, 2020 5:30 pmSo What is the method to use this software? What I have followed,
1) COnnect the USB of picoscope and open picoscope 6 software
2) open the Fra 4 picoscope software and go to file>connect the scope (When I select that option it says me no compatible picoscope device found)
Am I following the right method? or Am I missing something?
Thanks
Avi
Oh, Thank you so much, Aeron, for the help; I am very beginner at the picoscope. I have just tried to use a signal generator, so I connect it, but I don't know how to set it up. When I select the "built-in" option, it says "Signal Generator plugin not configured." When I select the "External" option, it asks for plugin name in dll form, Instrument ID, Initialization. Can you please guide me so I can use AWG from FR4PicoScope?hexamer wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 12:36 pmAvi,avi.patel001 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 04, 2020 5:30 pmSo What is the method to use this software? What I have followed,
1) COnnect the USB of picoscope and open picoscope 6 software
2) open the Fra 4 picoscope software and go to file>connect the scope (When I select that option it says me no compatible picoscope device found)
Am I following the right method? or Am I missing something?
Thanks
Avi
You should not be opening the PicoScope 6 software. The FRA app is independent of the scope app. By opening the PicoScope 6 software, the scope is not accessible to the FRA App because only one application can access the scope at a time.
The FRA app uses the Picotech SDK, which is in the form of DLL files. It turns out that the PicoScope 6 software also provides these SDK files in its installation directories. So sometimes (though it's not advised) you don't have to install the SDK. The SDK version of these DLLs is preferred because it's what I test to.
Thanks,
Aaron.
Avi,avi.patel001 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 7:08 pmOh, Thank you so much, Aeron, for the help; I am very beginner at the picoscope. I have just tried to use a signal generator, so I connect it, but I don't know how to set it up. When I select the "built-in" option, it says "Signal Generator plugin not configured." When I select the "External" option, it asks for plugin name in dll form, Instrument ID, Initialization. Can you please guide me so I can use AWG from FR4PicoScope?
Thanks
Avi
I am getting the same message using FRA4PicoScope 0.7.0b with a PicoScope 4824.whichislovely wrote: ↑Mon Sep 30, 2019 2:59 pmHello!
I am trying to use PicoScope5443D with the latest version FRA4PicoScope 0.6.2b.msi. I have two problems though.
1) There is a fatal error saying
"ps5000aSetChannel( 16384, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0 );Fatal error: Failed to disable channel: 290
Status: 5443D S/N: GX150/0121 successfully initialized."
2) When I try to set start frequency to be 100.0 it outputs the following error:
"Start frequency must be >= inf Hz
Error: Invalid inputs."
which confuses me.
Thanks in advance.
Miles,mransaw wrote: ↑Fri Nov 13, 2020 8:37 pmI am getting the same message using FRA4PicoScope 0.7.0b with a PicoScope 4824.
"Start frequency must be >= inf Hz
Error: Invalid inputs."
The 32-bit PicoScope SDK (10.7.18.140) is installed. When FRA4PicoScope first starts up it says
"Status: 4824 S/N: FZ013/155 successfully initialized."
If I click Connect Signal Generator and select Built-in, it says
"Signal generator plugin not configured."
Can anyone help to troubleshoot this?
Thank you,
Miles