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WaveAce 224 — Mini rant #7: Signal averaging

Posted on June 11, 2012 by robert

It works! BUT it comes at a cost.

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WaveAce 224 — Mini rant #6: Cursors and auto-measurements

Posted on May 19, 2012 by robert

Automatic cursors are supposed to show what and where stuff is measured on a waveform when automatic measurements are used. This is pretty useful, if it works as expected. Suffice to say that it doesn’t always do that – unfortunately.

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WaveAce 224 — Mini rant #5: Now what is this?

Posted on May 11, 2012 by robert

Got the ‘pulse-trigger’ to trigger. This time I don’t care if the set pulse-length is actually accurate, I just wanted it to trigger on the ‘thing’ and it did. Fine – happy happy joy joy! Then I felt like moving … Continue reading →

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WaveAce 224 — Mini rant #4: Fixed record-length…

Posted on April 30, 2012 by robert

Noooooooo………………………………………..(gasp, cough)

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Lecroy WaveAce 224 — Mini rant #3: Quality control…

Posted on April 28, 2012 by robert

Where art thou? This time I have discovered issues that are trigger-related, but more suitably filed under “general displaying issues”. Still using the “1.01.01.18R2” firmware. Just have a look at the video. No more words…

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Lecroy WaveAce 224 — Mini-rant #2: Maximum annoyance!

Posted on April 23, 2012 by robert

Oh boy, this thing can’t even count correctly… or since when is 7 = 9 ? Pulse-Trigger: I call that a bug.

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Lecroy WaveAce 224 — Mini-rant #1

Posted on April 23, 2012 by robert

This is the first post regarding the Lecroy WaveAce 224 DSO. As it currently seems I have material for at least a few short posts. Currently I’m having issues with one important knob and the triggering system.

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It is time — to really start thinking about conserving energy

Posted on March 14, 2011 by robert

Dear Diary, it has happened again… For the younger ones, it was 1986. No, I’m not talking about the Space Shuttle accident, but of Chernobyl, Russia. Some idiot thought it was a good idea to run some out of the … Continue reading →

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Property Management SUCKS — Rant

Posted on December 22, 2010 by robert

Now it’s just 2 days before XMAS, it is cold outside and there is snow and last Monday we were surprised by a hoard of friggin’ painters refurbishing the stairways and doors of our apartment complex. What’s wrong here? Why … Continue reading →

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Wasting Energy — Electricity utility business lives on “I’m off, really!”

Posted on March 6, 2010 by robert

Yesterday I got another shipment with electronics parts, which is almost better than Xmas. Among other things it contained a remarkably cheap energy meter. They’ve also got a link to a c’t-article about energy meters there. For readers of adafruit … Continue reading →

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