Hello Tom, haven't tried the raw data capture yet. It would be nice if they would have added support for USB thumb drives to store this type of data, and plots etc. But it does have internal RAM, they could have allocated a Mbyte or so for data-storage.. BTW: my unit used to reset itself all the time also. It was impossible to get measurements longer than a couple of days. After I got many hardware error warnings on the screen, Symmetricom fixed it after several attempts by replacing the AT processor board, and updating the flash firmware... Also, I had one flash drive die on me as well.. I also remember a correlation to ambient temperature, higher temps made it crash more often. Will look at John's Timelab asap.. Thanks, Said In a message dated 1/4/2012 21:46:54 Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes:
> I also don't like the way the TSC shows the frequency, and the fact that > you can only capture about 9 minutes of information for some reason. Why not > show 24 hours or 48 hours of data here? Said, The 9+ minutes (540+ seconds) is due to the 640 pixel display minus the soft menu that appears on the right side. The TSC doesn't save all the raw data from the run and thus you can't pan or zoom over the data like you would expect. Note there is no harddrive in the TSC (the CF card is just a boot filesystem). So there are two tricks you can use. The first is what I do, which is to capture all the raw phase data from the TSC, logging it on PC, and then use Stable32 or TimeLab to manipulate or plot as much or as little of the data as desired. Many of the plots on my web site are created this way. I almost always begin a log of raw data before I press start on a TSC analyzer. That way I have a permanent copy of all the phase data, from which all other analysis is based. Depending on the model of TSC, the raw phase data is delivered by RS-232 or LAN at rates of 1 Hz, 100 Hz, or 1 kHz. For really long runs (days or weeks, even months) I typically use 1 Hz. The second solution, one I would strongly recommend, is to use the live capture capability in TimeLab. John has built-in support for a number of popular counters, including the TSC. I'm pretty sure you can get it going in a matter of minutes; you will never look back. /tvb _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
