Hello, I also don't have a Picotest or similar equipment but I've done similar things by using the line input of a soundcard. Multiply the recorded signal with a 60 Hz quadrature oscillator, apply a low pass filter then do some analysis on the resulting phasor. The stability of the sound card oscillator should be enough for this purpose.
You can measure the frequency difference w.r.t. the 60 Hz oscillator by taking the slope of the phasor angle (be careful with phase wraparounds) and you can do this as often as you like. I'm curious how this compares with the zero crossing method. On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 8:46 PM, Daniel Mendes <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, I have a Picotest U6200A. I´m trying to log the grid frequency (60Hz) to > generate data for my work. I need to get data from every cycle. I setup > their program (it always starts in chinese... very funny) but seems that it > can only log every 100ms. Questions: > > 1) Is that a limitation of the equipment or the software? > > 2) Using direct comands, can I get data faster? > > Thanks for any help... > > Daniel > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
