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Re: Have I wasted $$ on a Pico??
Reply #15 - Nov 18^th, 2021 at 1:14am

TrevorSchlientz wrote on Nov 14^th, 2021 at 2:49am:

you should see what other industries have to pay to make their tools work.

Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't of upgraded my scope with Pico If I didn't think it was a good product.
It's just that P7 just isn't doing it for me, sure it has some nice features but I find myself going back to P6 on certain jobs. If I had to pay for upgrade P7 now, would I....mmmmm??

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Reply #17 - Jan 11^th, 2022 at 11:15pm

With permission from Trevor I'm posting this as I didn't want to take away any Pico sales and also I'm stating I'm not in anyway affiliated with Rotkee, just posting my opinion on these products.

The goods arrived in 2 weeks which is really good considering this time of years.

I'm really happy with the quality of the test leads, nice thick flexible leads, metal BNC with gold contact

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Reply #20 - Jan 12^th, 2022 at 1:27am

autosparky wrote on Jan 12^th, 2022 at 12:26am:

The vibration clamp was a little bigger than I would of liked, I couldn't directly clamp anywhere near a injector, only about 2 spots around the high pressure pump.

This shot is clamped to the rocker cover and 1 coil unplugged

Put an aluminium overlay over the coil for comparison

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Reply #21 - Jan 12^th, 2022 at 2:16pm

autosparky wrote on Jan 11^th, 2022 at 11:59pm:

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Reply #18 - Yesterday at 11:59pm The car is 2014 Mazda COP
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Hi Autosparky,
From the pattern you posted, it appears you were able to connect your Rotkee scope to you laptop and use Pico7 software. Is this the case and how difficult was the marriage of the scope to the Pico7 software? Shocked

Your pattern looks very clean and easy to read. Cool

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Reply #22 - Jan 12^th, 2022 at 7:51pm

autosparky wrote on Jan 12^th, 2022 at 12:26am:

The vibration clamp was a little bigger than I would of liked, I couldn't directly clamp anywhere near a injector, only about 2 spots around the high pressure pump.

This shot is clamped to the rocker cover and 1 coil unplugged

Put an aluminium overlay over the coil for comparison

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Re: Have I wasted $$ on a Pico??
Reply #23 - Jan 13^th, 2022 at 1:21am

Doug S. wrote on Jan 12^th, 2022 at 2:16pm:

autosparky wrote on Jan 11^th, 2022 at 11:59pm:

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Reply #18 - Yesterday at 11:59pm The car is 2014 Mazda COP
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Hi Autosparky,
From the pattern you posted, it appears you were able to connect your Rotkee scope to you laptop and use Pico7 software. Is this the case and how difficult was the marriage of the scope to the Pico7 software? Shocked

Your pattern looks very clean and easy to read. Cool

Take care,
DougS

A scope will read anything, the tricky part is designing something with the right sensitivity vs inductance/capacitance that will effect the wave shape.
Notice that I haven't had time to work out the voltage scaling yet

Logic wrote on Jan 12^th, 2022 at 7:51pm:

Put an aluminium overlay over the coil for comparison

I've tried that and placing various size coins and washers, my experimentation just wasn't consistent, the wave shape just wasn't right

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Re: Have I wasted $$ on a Pico??
Reply #24 - Jan 13^th, 2022 at 6:42am

Doug S. wrote on Jan 12^th, 2022 at 2:16pm:

autosparky wrote on Jan 11^th, 2022 at 11:59pm:

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Reply #18 - Yesterday at 11:59pm The car is 2014 Mazda COP
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Hi Autosparky,
From the pattern you posted, it appears you were able to connect your Rotkee scope to you laptop and use Pico7 software. Is this the case and how difficult was the marriage of the scope to the Pico7 software? Shocked

Your pattern looks very clean and easy to read. Cool

Take care,
DougS

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Reply #25 - Jan 13^th, 2022 at 10:44am

TrevorSchlientz wrote on Jan 13^th, 2022 at 6:42am:

Doug S. wrote on Jan 12^th, 2022 at 2:16pm:

autosparky wrote on Jan 11^th, 2022 at 11:59pm:

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Re: Have I wasted $$ on a Pico??
Reply #18 - Yesterday at 11:59pm The car is 2014 Mazda COP
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Hi Autosparky,
From the pattern you posted, it appears you were able to connect your Rotkee scope to you laptop and use Pico7 software. Is this the case and how difficult was the marriage of the scope to the Pico7 software? Shocked

Your pattern looks very clean and easy to read. Cool

Take care,
DougS

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I do not see that claim

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Re: Have I wasted $$ on a Pico??
Reply #26 - Jan 17^th, 2022 at 11:26am

Logic wrote on Jan 13^th, 2022 at 10:44am:

TrevorSchlientz wrote on Jan 13^th, 2022 at 6:42am:

Doug S. wrote on Jan 12^th, 2022 at 2:16pm:

[quote author=6B666F720A0 link=1636615000/18#18 date=1641974354]

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Re: Have I wasted $$ on a Pico??
Reply #18 - Yesterday at 11:59pm The car is 2014 Mazda COP
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Hi Autosparky,
From the pattern you posted, it appears you were able to connect your Rotkee scope to you laptop and use Pico7 software. Is this the case and how difficult was the marriage of the scope to the Pico7 software? Shocked

I do not see that claim

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My understanding is he was able to employ the rotkee accessories together with the picoscope and P7 software.

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Re: Have I wasted $$ on a Pico??
Reply #27 - Jan 17^th, 2022 at 12:18pm

JÜJA wrote on Jan 17^th, 2022 at 11:26am:

Logic wrote on Jan 13^th, 2022 at 10:44am:

TrevorSchlientz wrote on Jan 13^th, 2022 at 6:42am:

Doug S. wrote on Jan 12^th, 2022 at 2:16pm:

[quote author=6B666F720A0 link=1636615000/18#18 date=1641974354]

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Re: Have I wasted $$ on a Pico??
Reply #18 - Yesterday at 11:59pm The car is 2014 Mazda COP
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Hi Autosparky,
From the pattern you posted, it appears you were able to connect your Rotkee scope to you laptop and use Pico7 software. Is this the case and how difficult was the marriage of the scope to the Pico7 software? Shocked

I do not see that claim

.

My understanding is he was able to employ the rotkee accessories together with the picoscope and P7 software.

Exactly, just as we can use any input that generates an electrical signal....like the Brandon FLS

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Re: Have I wasted $$ on a Pico??
Reply #28 - Jan 18^th, 2022 at 12:48am

Doug S. wrote on Jan 12^th, 2022 at 2:16pm:

Hi Autosparky,
From the pattern you posted, it appears you were able to connect your Rotkee scope to you laptop and use Pico7 software. Is this the case and how difficult was the marriage of the scope to the Pico7 software?

I just read your post, not sure if I confused you or you read my post incorrectly but I didn't buy or use Rotkee software. I only brought the test leads.

If you look at reply 18 all I did was use a generic voltage scale for the HT leads, I haven't had time to work out the kv scaling yet

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Re: Have I wasted $$ on a Pico??
Reply #29 - Jan 18^th, 2022 at 11:00am

Both the Pico and Autonerdz secondary leads have a ground lead attached with circuitry that will redirect secondary voltage to ground in the event of secondary insulation failure. This will destroy the lead, but hopefully save the scope and PC. I would strongly suggest that any other brand of secondary test lead you might use offers the same protection.

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