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Hantek 4032L Logic Analyzer

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Fraser:
abyrvalg,

Thanks for your excellent insight into the 4032L. I will see if mine behaves the same with the lock-up issue and slow responses. I am running Win7(64) on an i5 so there should be enough grunt on the PC side for this little unit.

Out of interest did you notice that 'as supplied' the front panel legends are upside down. That is to say when the unit is stood up on its side with the word HANTEK facing you, all the I/O connector details are inverted ! An amazing cock-up ! I know what you mean about the rubber bumpers, but mine don't smell too bad at all.

I will be testing my unit against an HP MSO training board that provides all sorts of test signals to play with (GBP30 new on e*ay). I will also use the Hantek 1025G but I will need to be careful as I could end up with the scenario where poor output from the 1025 causes apparent issues with the 4032  :scared:

For anyone interested in a simple MSO training board and manual look here:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Self-Paced-Training-Kit-for-Hewlett-Packard-546000B-Oscilloscope-/290841237442?pt=UK_BOI_Electrical_Test_Measurement_Equipment_ET&hash=item43b77d17c2

and another sellers offering:

Silex-Major - he normally has a few new ones in stock

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hewlett-Packard-54654A-Self-Paced-Training-Kit-/370792531262?pt=UK_BOI_Electrical_Test_Measurement_Equipment_ET&hash=item5654f5053e&nma=true&si=HmEgAcW1wJEWok98evDCIhXKKFY%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

and here for the USA:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HP-AGILENT-54654A-TRAINING-KIT-/290750149799?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item43b20f34a7

Its pretty good for the money being asked and is a good quick start test piece for newbies.

abyrvalg:
Rasz, that long link is very interesting, thanks! I've seen their top level pages, but never went deeper

Aurora,
Yes, my unit had the same mistake with panels, bumpers legs were facing opposite sides also :D I have a feeling that housing/clips/sw were designed by some different team than PCB.

Btw, I had some progress today, patched the board to boot from PC (boot FX2 with fpga loader fw, load fpga, boot FX2 with function fw), original fx2/spartan binaries boots just fine. The result is that LA behaves like a generic bootable fx2/spartan/ddr evaluation board with possibility to boot original LA function in 5 seconds.

Rasz:

--- Quote from: abyrvalg on May 20, 2013, 07:16:29 pm ---Rasz, that long link is very interesting, thanks! I've seen their top level pages, but never went deeper

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Sigrok guys would probably appreciate it if you shared all the info about hantek with them. They might even help you with firmware if you want to extend existing feature set.

Fraser:
With regard to the provided test clips..... I have found most cheap one to be a liability so have bought up plenty of the HP/Agilent and Tektronix micro grabbers. A far superior product, but they can cost a small fortune unless, like me, you find a reasonable seller. I have paid around GBP20 for a new pack of 20. They are commonly available in the USA but sadly the postage to the UK can be a real killer.

The additional cost of the quality grabbers is fully justified if you consider the potential damage that can occur if IC pins are shorted together by a cheap grabber claw. I elected to save a few dollars on the SysClk DX unit, by not having the grabbers included. No loss at all to me as they are pretty rubbish.

nctnico:
Grabbers always have been a nuisance. The rate in which they detach per minute is e^(number of grabbers)
I usually solder thin (like hair) wires to the pins I want to observe. Those thin wires go to a header which I can plug into the probes of my logic analyser. An advantage of the thin wires is that they also work on 0.5mm (or less) pitched QFP and QFN packages.

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