Really nice. More and more impressed by what Pico can do. You are getting 5K of features for 1K price. Pretty amazing. Eventually people will catch on and realize they don't need the screen. Especially when everyone owns a computer or laptop anyways.

@shadow7037932

3 жыл бұрын

Yup. Plus you can always buy a cheap aptop and dedicate it to running this software.

@KissAnalog

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I'm getting more impressed with this as well and want to work with it more each time I'm on the bench;)

Eddie, nice demo. Pico's DEEP memory cannot be ignored with this topic; it allows you to treat a long capture as if you had multiple timebases. Using the ZOOM as you demonstrated, you pick a memory screen that has an event on one of the channels, stretch out the waveform containing the event to see detail and mark it with cursors and/or rulers. Now you can zoom in or out of a different channels, in the area of the cursors, and the relationships and sync between other channels and the event becomes clear. Appropriate triggers and math channels really help when observing the 4 channels, especially when LIVE, and all at different zoom levels. And a good, single shot trigger is still your friend, and will freeze the stack in the perfect spot -- just like the old days, but without the squinting. You can even add markers to a signal, use deep memory, and watch that marker move through entire circuit, taking measurements along the way.

@KissAnalog

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this great informative feedback!

Picos are incredible, and especially valuable to a technician on the go.

@KissAnalog

3 ай бұрын

I agree, but I think they are an awesome replacement for the bench scope as well. The software and capabilities are amazing.

The power of Pico compels you! The power of Pico compels you!

@KissAnalog

3 жыл бұрын

LOL that’s perfect;)

Very nice feature! Love it. Still use and prefer my analogue scope for many things. Great video.

@KissAnalog

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Pretty cool feature;)

Pico products are terrific!

@KissAnalog

9 ай бұрын

Thanks - they sure are! This 4444 is amazing and very unique;)

Hi Eddie, very impressive, thank you.

@KissAnalog

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you!

That's an interesting and handy feature to have.

@KissAnalog

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Isogen! I agree;)

It's awesome 👌

@KissAnalog

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

Thanks Eddie. I'm starting to see the value in these scopes. How's the software, any hang ups? Is it a nuisance to run a scope through a PC, any signal lags? Maybe you could compare signals in real time with a standard bench scope, something like decoding which can really help in trouble shooting. Rob

@KissAnalog

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Rob! So far, I haven’t noticed any delays or anything unusual. It is a great idea to show it side by side to a standard bench scope. I’m becoming a big fan of Pico!

A question - how accurate is the pico measuring DC voltages compared to a good quality multimeter? For example my Fluke 87V accurately shows 5.000 volt using a calibrated 5V reference, whereas my Rigol scope shows different values. I understand that the scope has only 8 bit resolution but am curious to know how much more accurate the Pico in 16 bit mode is in practice.

@KissAnalog

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! This is a fantastic question! DC readings from a quality meter like the Fluke 87, Hioki 4282, or any meter that can do 20k counts or more is hard to beat as they are on the order of 0.1%. The Pico is probably 0.5% at 12bits, but can do hires 14 bits, so that might be more comparable. Typically I think 12 Bits will provide 0.5% where an 8 bit is closer to 2%. At 1kHz, the Fluke 87 will drop to 2% and drop off at 20kHz, so the Pico definitely wins the AC voltage accuracy;)

I want one!

hi, i wanna know the risks of connecting the picoscope to a laptop, in a country like india whre you can expect a lot of wring errors. Thanks

@KissAnalog

Жыл бұрын

I would think it is safer to connect to a laptop in a country with unstable voltage. The laptop will have a regulated power at its usb ports.

Do all channels have to use the same sample rate? Or can the zoomed in views use a faster sample rate?

@KissAnalog

7 ай бұрын

Great question! I think you would essentially need 4 oscilloscopes. The great thing with the Picoscope is it has deep memory to store lots of samples so that you can zoom in fast and on any channel or all channels. Also you can have multiple displays to view each channel on its own display. I have a number of Picoscope videos that you can find by searching KissAnalog Picoscope.

WoW, dude thank you cause this is something I was looking for on my Pico and yes sure hope you did respond to them. This was an accident finding. HaHaHa!! Thank you this is great.. Yes, using the trigger awesome I'll be looking for your next video spectrum shoots, with large screen 60inch😂Love it❣ Made it easy for myself🤣

@KissAnalog

Ай бұрын

Thanks so much for your feedback!!! I have more to show - soon;)

ats e scope has 2 separate time bases per screen.

@KissAnalog

2 ай бұрын

Thanks! I'll have to do another video with this very soon to show what it can do. Great scope;)

Does the Pico work on Linux/OSX?

@KissAnalog

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this great question! It does, but go to this link and read it for clarity. I can also tell you that Pico7 is in the works and I am beta testing it now. It is a nice looking GUI;) www.picotech.com/downloads/linux

What are the voltage input limitations?

@KissAnalog

3 жыл бұрын

That’s a great question and it depends on the probes that you use. This is a differential input version, and the 1:1 ratio probes have a plus and minus 50V max, but the 25:1 probes have a plus and minus 500 V rating. I can also use any regular BNC connector probe, so that would be the same as any other scope. Very versatile;)

@Homer19521

3 жыл бұрын

Ahh! Very good. When I looked at the PICO long ago it had a very limited input. Looks like they corrected that. Thanx!

how about separate triggers for each channel

@KissAnalog

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the great suggestion! I have been sending in suggestions on software updates, so I'll add this to my list;)

isnt the 4444 a differential scope?

@KissAnalog

5 ай бұрын

Yes it is. That's why I wanted it. The diff probes are nice and low cost too.

That's pretty cool. Good for viewing non-correlated waveforms without having to reconfigure the scope or zoom in all the waveforms rather than just the one. Really tempted by the 3406D model - I need to stop watching these videos!!

@KissAnalog

3 жыл бұрын

LOL Thanks Andrew!! I am having fun with this scope. I'm really suprising myself with how much I like a PC scope;) The software is crazy good I think. If you get crazy, here's a link. I think I'm good to go in Europe now and a few other countries. amzn.to/3yPM5Bp

Genius Lecroy engineers did this in their scopes very very long time ago (at least 22-23 years). On Lecroy you can split the screen to up to 8 separate traces (not just 4) and you can have 4 zoom or math traces. So you can have your 4 channels plus their zoomed ones all separately. so this is not new and has been around for a long time. I think lecroy were the pioneers of this but I may be wrong about that. On my Lecroy Wavepro (made in 2005) I can do it. What would be cool though is to actually have two different time bases. There is a cheap chinese scope that Dave reviewed some time ago and it does have two separate time bases I forgot the name but it was two channel scope.

@KissAnalog

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this great information! I actually did work in a lab where they had a Lecroy Wavepro. I used it very little so I didn't see that functionality. It had a 10 inch screen if I remember, and had a lot of power, but it cost over $20k. I think it is amazing and something new that you can get this kind of power in a scope that is $1700 with all the probes:)

@amirb715

3 жыл бұрын

@@KissAnalog yes but that old used wavepro with 3GHz bandiwdth and 20Gs/s only costs $2k-$3k these days. I got it a quarter of this price because it was not working and repaired it and then upgraded it so it is a much faster scope than the original stock. The math capabilities and spectrum analysis of LEcroy scopes are simply unmatched but I do understand why people prefer keysight and tektronix ...