Waveform channel swapping

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Steve Smith
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Waveform channel swapping

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Many thanks to all the Pico users who have reported a sporadic and very odd glitch within the PicoScope 6 Automotive software prior to version 6.9.14 (Current stable version)

When downloading new software from the Pico Website you will often find the "release notes" or a brief overview of the updates and bug fixes contained within the latest release.

Currently you can see "Captured data can become swapped between channels on some 4000 series devices"

To elaborate a little on this symptom, you may find when using 3 or 4 channels that the input signal changes channel!

Eg. Cam and crank signals on Channels A and B, injection and ignition on Channels C and D. Whilst capturing the data and monitoring the waveform on screen, Channel C and D may swap input signals midway through a screen capture.

There are occasions when Channel C correctly displays an injection event for the first half of the screen and an ignition event for the remainder of the screen (on the same channel)

The symptom can be very difficult to reproduce given it does not effect all devices and is only ever apparent intermittently when 3 or more channels are active.

This issue was identified immediately after build and within 5 days the symptom was diagnosed, software built, internally tested and released to the website.

Please be aware that if you do experience this issue, downloading the latest software version 6.9.14 or later will resolve the concerns above

I hope this information helps and once again thank you for the feedback and patience on this nuisance issue

Take care.......Steve

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Robski
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cheers Steve..................if only I had seen this before this morning :shock:

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Re: Waveform channel swapping

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Hello Rob, a lesson learned by me for sure.(Thanks for the heads up too)

Apologises to all who experienced this issue as it had me over too.

Take care......Steve

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yes it certainly slipped me a crippler ! Back to normal now though.

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