Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Apple Inc. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: inaflash who wrote (58731)	11/17/2006 8:45:26 AM
From: HerbVic	Respond to of 213182

He might be able to do something with a Fluke or other branded test instrument that communicates through USB to a laptop. Haven't looked into it though. My area of experience is mostly with 4 to 20 mA loop circuits, DCS and PLC control systems.

To: inaflash who wrote (58731)	11/17/2006 1:04:04 PM
From: Stock Puppy	Respond to of 213182

The function of the box would be to capture the waveforms - the USB connection is just to let you see whats going on and transfer data as necessary. Unless someone needs continuous capture as opposed to montioring the signal the USB port doesn't need to go close to GHz - only faster enough to update the display. Heck update of a monitor at best is no more than 120 Hz and LCDs are 60 Hz. Also if capture of the signal is the goal, the box could buffer it to some extent and then the limiting step is how much capture is needed. I need monitoring - capture would be nice but no more than a few seconds. Just need to troubleshoot circuits (mostly analog signals - shape etc extremely important) and I hate lugging old bertha around. I agree it would be interesting to try Parallel, but would be nicer to get a native program.