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Picoscope- yay or nay?

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Shock:
Really what you need is a working CRT. In low light conditions the Tek 576 takes amazing photos (better than this). The Picoscope is just adding more complexity, and I feel you're making compromises in the wrong direction.



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David Aurora:

--- Quote from: Shock on May 08, 2022, 04:53:24 am ---Really what you need is a working CRT. In low light conditions the Tek 576 takes amazing photos (better than this). The Picoscope is just adding more complexity, and I feel you're making compromises in the wrong direction.



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No shit  ;D

I'm not doing this because I'd prefer it to having a working 576, I'm doing this because right now I have one with no display and fuck all chance of finding a replacement any time soon. That said, I'd like to be able to digitise the plots, but right now the priority is just to be able to use the curve tracer at all. The Picoscope appeared to fit the bill in that it's small, cheap, has a 10x10 grid and lets you create custom probes which would help with scaling. It should have been a no brainer.

bdunham7:

--- Quote from: David Aurora on May 08, 2022, 04:46:22 am ---Nope, not even close buddy. Pulling clean traces off a curve tracer is a piece of cake, I do it all the time with a standalone curve tracer I already had as well as various octopus testers I've had/made over the years. The issue isn't that it isn't displaying correctly or something, the issue is that XY mode is greyed out on Macs, and the Windows version doesn't work on modern Macs in apps like Parallels. None of this stuff is mentioned on their compatibility page, so unless you do a deep dive before purchase you find out the hard way.

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OK, I've not tried this with that specific device.  If the Tek 576 doesn't use blanking or for whatever reason the capture works well without any Z-axis input and the record length and speed is manageable--as in it works with most other DSOs--then your Picoscope may do just fine with an actual Windows PC.  Perhaps it is sloppy or worse of them to claim Mac compatibility, but they're probably still trying to recover from the Motorola to Intel switch.  But you don't need a 'deep dive' to realize this is a possibility--there's a LOT of stuff out there the just doesn't work with Macs.  If you absolutely insist on not polluting your existence with the presence of Wintel, then the Analog Discovery might be for you--it does work on Mac, at least on a MacBook Pro old enough to have actual Type A USB ports--so it should at least work on your Mac Mini.  Not sure about M1 yet, probably still emulation.


--- Quote --- It should have been a no brainer.

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Well, IMO, it is!  :)

RoGeorge:

--- Quote from: David Aurora on May 08, 2022, 04:36:13 am ---I literally said in my post that I did that, it doesn't work in Windows on an M1 Mac, full stop  :-//

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You literally said?  Where?
So which one you did you tried, VirtualBox or VMware?  And what exactly didn't work?

tv84:

--- Quote from: RoGeorge on May 08, 2022, 07:30:56 am ---You literally said?  Where?

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Here: 


--- Quote from: RoGeorge on May 08, 2022, 07:30:56 am ---So which one you did you tried, VirtualBox or VMware?  And what exactly didn't work?

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Probably he also literally said that VirtualBox and/or VMware don't work in a M1 Mac.

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