Afonso Teles

Good replacements might be relatively expensive simply due to the nature of the part.<br> <br> Since it seems the only problem is the battery (date and time track properly with power on), it might be possible to add an external battery to fulfill the same role. This would require modification of the circuit to disconnect the Vcc pin of the chip from the rest of instrument so the external battery is only feeding that chip.<br> <br> Any modifications or repairs might void your warranty or make your instrument unable to pass performance verification or calibration, proceed at your own risk.

<p>Hi Michael,</p> <p></p> <p>I do not have a specific example, but I believe you would use the <code>save</code>&#160; and <code>saveon</code> group of commands, listed on page 2-92 and 2-93.&#160;</p>

Hi Robert,<br> <br> The front panel and SCPI commands should both give you all the possible sample rates for the machine.<br> <br> I would suggest manually entering in the desired record length for your chosen horizontal scale and sample rate. I was able to set the sample rate to 100 MS/s and I have attached a picture of that with this post.

<div class="linenums prettyprint">Hi Michael,</div> <p><br> Just to be clear, <a href="https://www.tek.com/en/products/software/tekscope-pc-analysis-software">TekScope</a> and <a href="https://forum.tek.com/viewtopic.php?t=140451">TekScope Utility</a> are two completely different softwares.<br> <br> Yes, TekScope Utility was slow because at 50 GS/s for a 1 ms long acquisition, results in 50 Mpts, which is a pretty long waveform to transfer. If you require less points than that then you will see a significant speedup.<br> <br> I have included an example of downloading waveform data with Python3 from an MSO2/4/5/6.</p>

Hi Michael,<br> <br> I do not see the limitation you are talking, <a href="https://forum.tek.com/viewtopic.php?t=140451">TekScope Utility</a> was able to data log waveforms over 1 ms at 50 GS/s, although slowly due to slow connection speeds.<br> <br> If the connection speeds are a limitation for you, then saving to &quot;disk&quot; (the instrument's SSD) will be significantly faster than transferring through USB. If you would like to save to a networked SSD then that's also possible and still significantly faster than USB transfers.<br> <br> In terms of resources for remote control programming, your best friend will be the <a href="https://www.tek.com/en/sitewide-content/manuals/4/5/6/4-5-6-series-mso-programmer-manual">programmer's manual.</a>

Hi Birjit,<br> <br> This <a href="https://forum.tek.com/viewtopic.php?f=580&amp;t=133570">thread </a>has several examples for the MDO4000, including one on acquiring waveform data and displaying it

Hi Robert,<br> <br> The MDO34 does not allow you to manually set the sample rate, it has to be set through a combination of the horizontal scale (<code>horizontal:scale</code>) and record length (<code>horizontal:recordlength</code>).<br> <br> Additionally, if speed is a concern to you, then I would suggest changing <code>data:encdg</code>to &quot;fastest&quot; or some other binary mode. That will result in a significant speedup from ASCII encoding.

Hi Michael,<br> <br> There's an issue where probe tips are sometimes not detected (usually when swapping them quickly), this will be fixed in upcoming firmware releases.

Hi,<br> <br> The licenses included in the bundles are explained here: <a href="https://www.tek.com/en/documents/brochure/software-bundles-for-the-4-5-and-6-series-mso-oscilloscopes">https://www.tek.com/en/documents/brochure/software-bundles-for-the-4-5-and-6-series-mso-oscilloscopes</a><br> The IMDA-MECH license is indeed included with the 5-PRO-POWER.

Hi Birjit,<br> <br> Fast Acquisition mode works quite differently from regular acquisition modes and is not meant to speed up the acquisition of single shot traces, it is meant for acquisition of several traces in a row, generating heatmaps.<br> Here is an explanation of how DPX/Fast acquisition works within our RSAs: https://www.tek.com/en/documents/primer/dpx-acquisition-technology-spectrum-analyzers-fundamentals<br> <br> So, it won't be possible to use Fast Acquisition to save single traces faster. If you wish to save a heatmap of several traces, then Fast Acquisition might be of use to you.