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HKJ:

--- Quote from: Curious on July 28, 2022, 07:36:32 pm ---i'm stumped at the point of getting the numerical data received from ET5410 to plot (i.e. Volts vs. Amp-hours) on their canned chart, aka "Figure", have you had any success?

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You can do that with TestController: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/program-that-can-log-from-many-multimeters/
If the load do not rapport Ah or Wh it can be easily calculated in TestController and used for graphing.

The interface may look more simple than the program supplied with the load, but it has much more functionality and will work with any supported load.

If you really get into TestController it can do stuff like below automatically (It is a charge curve, i.e. it is done with a power supply, not a load):


Curious:

--- Quote from: HKJ on July 29, 2022, 07:15:54 am ---
--- Quote from: Curious on July 28, 2022, 07:36:32 pm ---i'm stumped at the point of getting the numerical data received from ET5410 to plot (i.e. Volts vs. Amp-hours) on their canned chart, aka "Figure", have you had any success?

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If you really get into TestController it can do stuff like below automatically (It is a charge curve, i.e. it is done with a power supply, not a load):


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Hello, wow, that looks like a very powerful and widely applicable program!  Big picture question at the moment though, how many hours/days do you think it will take for someone who just looked at the program and documentation today to get a reasonable Battery discharge curve (prefer Volts vs. Amp-hours)?  I have only rudimentary programming skills, learning the scripting language seems daunting.  I have an immediate need, have purchased a LiFeP04 battery that claims to be 36Amp-hours, but first battery test with ET540 at 0.1C shows ~30AH, needing to quickly get those results better documented to convince seller to replace or refund.

Curious:

--- Quote from: DaneLaw on July 29, 2022, 12:51:25 am ---

It's a Win11 pro, but I'm pretty sure I'm doing something wrong, or it's not working fully..as the only thing I'm able to be more or less initialize it, and then I can turn on the load and turn off the load with the PC sw. by clicking down at the left bottom corner (with these 3 bars.. PC, Remote, CH1 on/off.) and jump between the different modes.

I don't seem to be able to put any values onto the device..if I hit that numerical numbers and hit enter or turn that dial.. it simply does not resonate with the device, even though they clearly are connected but could be something as simple as a setting I'm lacking.
I plugged in a USB3 cable. and choose the same 115200 baud as I recall were present from scratch on the unit.
Could be something fundamental / obvious, I am missing as a novice - or perhaps it's down to win11pro or I need to run it in some combability-mode or maybe there is a basic feature I haven't activated on the unit-


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I just installed the LOAD.rar, which installed a bunch of scary NI-VISA stuff.  No NI stuff on my Windows10 PC before this.  I'm able to immediately update ET5410 current setting by either the (eccentric) knob or the 10 digit entry.  Setting updates after "enter" with 10digit and immediately with knob.  I havent found any effect of the lower left switches Local/Remote/PC, except that some combos don't allow usage of ET5410 controls. 

FYI, link to Video of ET5410 and PC screens while changing current settings in CC mode...(hopefully link works, how are you embedding mp4 files in your post?)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1--QffWxmANQ0icvfqkUkX05nT-Jefmet/view?usp=sharing

So at this point for me with vendor's "LOAD" software: 1. control of ET5410 from PC  is working, 2. rudimentary feedback from ET5410 so LOAD software showing Volts and Amps on the main window, 3. NOTHING working on the "Figure" window, which includes datalogging, exporting, plotting.

HKJ:

--- Quote from: Curious on July 30, 2022, 05:48:20 pm ---Hello, wow, that looks like a very powerful and widely applicable program!  Big picture question at the moment though, how many hours/days do you think it will take for someone who just looked at the program and documentation today to get a reasonable Battery discharge curve (prefer Volts vs. Amp-hours)?  I have only rudimentary programming skills, learning the scripting language seems daunting.  I have an immediate need, have purchased a LiFeP04 battery that claims to be 36Amp-hours, but first battery test with ET540 at 0.1C shows ~30AH, needing to quickly get those results better documented to convince seller to replace or refund.

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It do not require any training or anything else to use TestController for discharging a battery (Use Popup Log Event), but controlling it from a script and formatting a chart with annotations do require some smarts. Note: TestController can generate scripts for a lot of stuff, but the example I showed requires some understanding of programming to setup TestController to do it automatically.
You can do a lot of stuff from the popups, but if you want to do it automatically it requires a script. This is only relevant if your want to do the same test multiple times on different devices (Here batteries).

Curious:

--- Quote ---It do not require any training or anything else to use Test-Controller for discharging a battery (Use Popup Log Event), but controlling it from a script and formatting a chart with annotations do require some smarts.
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Hi, I gave up on East Tester Control/datalogging software, I don't think datalogging is working at all.  So, finally started looking at your TestController software, instead.  Stopped in my tracks not knowing how Java differs from JDK.  Posted today on the Test Controller forum https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/program-that-can-log-from-many-multimeters/

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