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Picoscope Hack
unseenninja:
--- Quote from: MiDi on December 19, 2023, 07:07:50 pm ---Had no problems to hack 2204A (HW Version 17, cal 2023-04-17) to 2205A
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Thanks for the clear instructions. Worked a treat for me too!
TomKatt:
I’d guess that Rigol and Siglent have a much larger market share and likely get better component pricing as a result. Their manufacturing costs are probably also lower. That said, they likely are able to manage lower profit margins on much of their product line as a result.
Another consideration is that Pico needs to sustain the software development that makes their products so valuable. A hardware BOM cost comparison probably doesn’t provide the whole picture.
I think that Pico’s software environment would suit my scope needs better than stand alone desktop products - it seems very handy for observing and finding issues with longer acquisitions. Too bad they are out of my financial budget.
MiroS:
--- Quote from: unseenninja on June 12, 2024, 07:08:47 pm ---
--- Quote from: MiDi on December 19, 2023, 07:07:50 pm ---Had no problems to hack 2204A (HW Version 17, cal 2023-04-17) to 2205A
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Thanks for the clear instructions. Worked a treat for me too!
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My serial is ending with zero J****/**30 , if I change it to J****/**29 - hack does not work, if I decrease last digit in number J****/**30 by 1 so it will be last digit hex 29 so not a number anymore ( 0 is hex 30).
Is there any way for such case?
XanderL73:
Hi all,
I very new to this side of tech. I think I have libusb and fx2tool setup properly on my macbook. When I connect my picoscope 2405a, I see in my system information that it has pid 1016. Now when I sent the command:
fx2tool -B -d 0CE9:1016 read_eeprom -W 1 0 256 -f eeprom.hex
I get the response:
Command not acknowledged (wrong address width?)
fx2tool -B -d 0CE9:1016 read_eeprom -W 2 0 256 -f eeprom.hex
this works and writes the file.
After a bit of puzzeling and reading through all the posts again I figured out which numbers to change (I used a straight text editor) and uploaded the new file with:
fx2tool -B -d 0CE9:1016 write_eeprom -W 2 -f eeprom_hack32.hex
Did a readback and found the new numbers in place.
Next I started picoscope 7 and it finds a 2406B, with the serial 1 lower than before, but it also shows a red X and says failed.
So I hope that the great folks on this forum can nudge me in the right direction. I just want to see what is possible. Even upgrading it 1 step from 25 to 50 Mhz would be welcome.
At least loading the original backup back, did restore the scope to the factory settings and it works in picoscope 7.
hugo:
We do know that some of the 2204A models can be upgraded to the 2205A, however I do believe that 2406B model is a totaly different species (different size and hardware) so no upgrade will be possible ...
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