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Products => Test Equipment => Topic started by: peps1 on September 03, 2022, 04:18:45 pm
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Hello, I need to measure a bunch of Ge diode's forward voltage and graph out the current at a range of mV.
I was thinking for just grabbing a DCA75 to replace my trusty DCA55, but noticed that the software for the DCA75 is Windows only and I use Linux in the lab. So, I was wondering if there were any other options out there that could plot out diode curves?
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Unfortunately, I have the DCA75 but can't use the PC software.
I doesn't work under wine and and the DCA75 can't connect to a Virtual Win 10 (virtualbox) either.
So best to look for another piece of equipment that has Linux software available.
Sorry, can't help you with that.
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As a Linux-User Win7 (which you can get anywhere in any version and language :popcorn:) as an offline Edition within VirtualBox is the best way to go - driver- and speedwise, so do I! I haven't checked Win10 or Win11 so far, because it does not make any sense to torture yourself! :palm:
Being on Ubuntu Focal Fossa 20.04.X using newest Oracle VM VrtualBox 6.1.36 r152435 and having no problem at all to use "Atlas Peak DCA 75 Pro"-Software within my several offline Win7-VirtualBoxes - in this case my "TestController-Edition"...
I also use wine, but not for this type of software, as you too often get problems after upgrading (at the moment 7.16 winehq staging makes problems, so that I had to switch back to winehq stable 7.0) to use my beloved WinRAR 6.11 or FlashFXP...) - but back to your question:
Of course you have to check the USB within the settings, to use it...which you can see here and sometimes it makes sense to only use USB 2.0:
(https://i.postimg.cc/D0YyvxCh/Bildschirmfoto-von-2022-09-03-22-43-17.png) (https://postimages.org/)
"Peak Electronic Design Ltd. Peak Atlas DCA Pro [0021]" is detected!
I switched off the fullscreen mode, so that you see, that I am within Linux using two displays:
(https://i.postimg.cc/fWHrzGvX/Bildschirmfoto-von-2022-09-03-23-06-13.png) (https://postimg.cc/mhHwV6J2)
Within the DCA-Software, you can see in the bottom left corner in green, that the device is connected "DCA Pro connected"!
Here a graph with no problem:
(https://i.postimg.cc/sfJTntLq/Bildschirmfoto-von-2022-09-03-22-59-51.png) (https://postimg.cc/JtG30dM5)
Cheers! :)
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Thanks PushUp, you've showed me the right path. :)
I found an old windows 7 vm that had the DCA software still installed.
So I had it working at some time but forgot about it. :palm:
And then I have to start the vm first and then plug in the DCA75.
Same process with a Win10 vm doesn't work and I don't want to spend more time on that.
I'm a Linux user too. And as a recently retired windows it specialist I'm happy to leave it behind me.