Secondary Ignition display options

Ask any questions relating to the PicoScope hardware or kit contents here.
If you have any questions prior to purchasing the kit post them here.
Post Reply
Mark Coles

Secondary Ignition display options

Post by Mark Coles »

Can I view ignition signals in raster & parade display modes with the diagnostics kit?

User avatar
matthew
OneWave
OneWave
Posts: 18
Joined: Wed Sep 25, 2002 9:35 am
Location: Cambridgeshire, UK

Raster & Parade Display Modes

Post by matthew »

Some scopes & analysers have 8 or more channel and can be used to display secondary waveforms from each cylinder at the same time. This offers maximum flexibility, but is often expensive.

On our scopes you can do the following ...
Use one channel to monitor the king lead before the distributor - giving a parade type display.
(The second channel can be used as a trigger on #1 cylinder to make it obvious which channel is which)

The raster mode (multiplexing single waveforms into multiple channels) cannot be achieved with our hardware / software alone, however the following device can adapt secondary waveforms (especially on DIS systems) into a parade display.

Ferret 950 from http://www.ferretinstruments.com/Pages/ferret_950.htm
Matt Everett

Pico Software Engineer

Post Reply