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autosparky wrote on Feb 4^th, 2014 at 12:42am:


My SO dealer came and said something like that as well. I told him he was full of crap.
I may be wrong.

I like your way of thinking, Preston.
You are, officially, a "Tool Whore"!
I've been called this also, but I don't know
if I'd buy just to say I had one.
But boy would I be trying to rationalize it!
-Ward-

We have a company in Finland that supplies the field with training and equipment. Actually, these guys are the ones that trained me to the status of "automotive electrician", as a sloppy translation.

They also have a few own products, this scope has been in their product range for many, many years:

http://www.hmv-systems.fi/adac3000/

Not that this has got anything to do with the Pico rumour.

I have a 10 channel Piovrusvatpro 

A complication of double the set of channels would be the display on the screen with eight y axis and eight traces...much bigger and higher resolution screen.

I'm running 19" now on my laptop now......

In saying that I would love to be able to interface with eight or ten channels as opposed to BMWs one..hahahahahah....Master Tech indeed 

I would like 2 x 4 channels if they can be synchronized though the computers time clock, so that they would operate in syncrony.

crackerclicker wrote on Feb 4^th, 2014 at 8:57pm:


We have a winner.   

We have been aware of this one for a few weeks.  We don't always hear of the new test and measurement scopes ahead of launch but this one we did. 

Pico gives distributors advance information on new products as long as they don't spoil the surprise by going public with the information in advance of the launch date.  It's unfortunate that someone entrusted with this information didn't take their responsibility seriously.  It sure wasn't anyone here at Autonerdz.

Now that the cat is out of the bag, we have been given permission to confirm this rumor.

As a test and measurement scope, this one will not be well suited for automotive applications.  It will not have the same protection against short circuits resulting from ground loops nor will it have automotive voltage ranges or be supported by the automotive software.

That being said, if any of you are interested in getting one of these 8 channel units, I will see about getting a few in stock.

PicoFin wrote on Feb 4^th, 2014 at 10:25am:


I followed that link and could not find a spec sheet.  However, this I did find:

Quote:


That would not be an adequate sample rate for much of anything automotive.

Just saying.   

PicoFin wrote on Feb 5^th, 2014 at 1:17pm:



PicoFin wrote on Feb 5^th, 2014 at 1:17pm:



That's one mistake I wish I would've made before buying an OTC Solarity so many years ago  .

Ward Zintel wrote on Feb 5^th, 2014 at 7:53pm:


Was that the same era when the earth was considered flat? 

My son, now 10 years old, asked me some years ago if there still were dinosaurs when grandpa was a kid? 

I remember when all we had was wood burning computers, how's that for old.
No dinosaurs when I was a youngin'. We had to walk to school in the snow - 10 miles, uphill, both ways.
-Ward-

Ward Zintel wrote on Feb 12^th, 2014 at 4:51am:



That's pretty lean. On top of that, we have headwind and wolves chasing you here in Finland 

My interpretation was that he smushed Pico, Verus, Vantage, and pro together.  Meaning he just uses multiple scopes to acquire more channels.  Just a guess.

http://www.picotech.com/picoscope4824overview.html

I might not be reading the specs right, but it looks to me that this thing is technically still better than a MODIS (minus the whole "continuous buffer" thing).  Is the buffer 256MS with all 8 channels running?  When I plug those numbers into the DSO Comparison tool this thing looks fairly impressive.  Great job Pico 

Tom Roberts wrote on Feb 5^th, 2014 at 8:47am:


Correction....Currently this is supposed to be compatible with the automotive PicoScope but not Pico Diagnostics.  This may not be the case in the future, so I would not depend on that.