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Hello and thank you for the feedback Would it be possible to add a link to your webinar as this would assist others with such knowledge and bring about additional diagnostic techniques? Below is the final capture from Friday’s adventure where an increase in the time span to 20 seconds across the scr...

Hi Kim, thank you for taking the time out to post this awesome information I have not carried out any testing with this brand of sensor but have completed a number of Wide-band Lambda Sensor Guided Tests : The Bosch LSU 4.2 Lambda sensor Overview Test can be seen here https://www.picoauto.com/librar...

Hello and thank you for the posts This can be a challenging one with multiple PicoScope features at our disposal to capture VVT operation. These include Rotation Rulers, Partitions, Deep Measure, Measurements, Advanced Triggers, Persistence Mode and Masks etc. The following link may help here https:...

Hello and thank you for the feedback. Could I clarify the request for Serial Decoding? Clicking on your chosen data (message) in the decode table will take you to this selected data (message) in the graph. (featured already) Would you also like to double click on the data (message) in the graph and ...

Hello and thank you for the post, sorry I have only just seen your request. Looking at 001 capture E4 is predominantly high as would be expected on a V8 given we have 4 combustion events disturbing the crankshaft every revolution 001 Capture.png The following forum post will help describe these orde...

Hello and thank you for the post. The VAN Protocol utilities a 125 kbit/s baud rate which your Scope will capture fine. I have very little experience with this network but after a little research you must read the following information form Graham Auld who has gone to great lengths to inform and dec...

Hello Nathan and welcome to the Forum It sounds like you hit the ground running with your Scope and got an instant result. I know "Warranty" can be a battle at times but you cannot argue with accurate test results as you have indicated here. I have no doubt this will be the first of many for you and...

Hello Martin, thank you for the post. An unknown vibration at 25 Hz or, x 60 = 1500 rpm. Here we are looking for a component rotation at this speed, or a component that is resonating at this frequency. It does look as though engine speed is not linked to the vibration as we have the same condition a...

Thank you for the feedback and welcome to the Forum. Thank you for your contributions to the Webinar too along with your support here with Active Termination. The Diagnostic Network is awesome and I do try to check in where I can but time just vanishes day in day out. Question 4 FlexRay networks, do...

Question 3 Testing CAN with Active Termination This was a feature I was not aware of until the question was raised during the Pico CAN Webinar. After some considerable reading it makes perfect sense why Active CAN BUS termination would be utilized with automotive networks. If we return to why passiv...