Welcome Thank you for buying a Pico Technology product! The PicoScope 4000 Series of PC Oscilloscopes from Pico Technology is a range of compact units designed to replace traditional bench-top oscilloscopes costing many times the price. Here are some of the benefits provided by your new PicoScope 4000 Series PC Oscilloscope: Portability: Take the unit with you and plug it in to any Windows PC.
Contact with voltages outside the protection range may cause permanent damage to the unit. Mains voltages. Pico Technology products are not designed for use with mains (line) voltages. To measure mains, use a differential isolating probe specifically rated for mains use.
PicoScope 4000 Series User's Guide FCC notice This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment.
Access. The licensee agrees to allow access to this software only to persons who have been informed of these conditions and agree to abide by them. Usage. The software in this release is for use only with Pico products or with data collected using Pico products.
Goods will be free from defects in material and workmanship. Pico Technology shall not be liable for a breach of the warranty if the defect has been caused by fair wear and tear, wilful damage, negligence, abnormal working conditions...
When you first installed the PicoScope 4000 Series PC Oscilloscope by plugging it into port, Windows associated the Pico driver with that port. If you later move the oscilloscope to a different USB port, Windows will display the "New Hardware Found Wizard"...
PC Oscilloscopes have BNC oscilloscope connectors. The inputs have an impedance of 1 M , so they are compatible with all standard scope probes including x1, x10 and x1/x10 attenuated types. Connector diagrams PicoScope 4224 Front panel A. Input channel A B. Input channel B C.
PicoScope 4000 Series User's Guide Specifications Oscilloscope model PicoScope PicoScope PicoScope PicoScope 4224 4424 4226 4227 Inputs Number of channels Analog bandwidth DC to 20 MHz DC to 50 MHz DC to 100 MHz (10 MHz on ±50 mV range) Impedance (nominal) BNC, 1 M || 22 pF...
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Product information Oscilloscope model PicoScope PicoScope PicoScope PicoScope 4224 4424 4226 4227 External trigger Connector Modes Rising/falling edge Bandwidth 100 MHz Impedance || 20 pF Voltage range ±20 V Coupling Overload protection ±100 V Digital trigger Types Edge, window, pulse, interval, dropout, runt, delayed Environment Operating environment Temperature range...
PicoScope 4000 Series User's Guide Programming with the PicoScope 4000 Series An Application Programming Interface (API) is supplied free of charge with the PicoScope 4000 Series scopes. You can install it from the product CD (if you enable this option in the installer) or by downloading it from our website at www.picotech.
PicoScope software. PicoScope 4000 Series. Pico Technology's high-resolution PC Oscilloscopes. PicoScope software. A program that accompanies all Pico PC Oscilloscopes. It turns your PC into an oscilloscope, spectrum analyser and measuring instrument. Real-time sampling. The normal operating mode of a digital oscilloscope. The scope collects a single, unbroken sequence of samples at or below its maximum sampling rate.
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PicoScope 4000 Series User's Guide USB 1.1. Universal Serial Bus (Full Speed). This is a standard port used to connect external devices to PCs. A typical USB 1.1 port supports a data transfer rate of 12 megabits per second, so is much faster than an RS232 COM port. USB 2.0.
Index Operating environment Operating system Oscilloscope probe Accuracy Outputs Analog bandwidth Overload protection Bandwidth (analog) PC connection BNC connector Pico Technical Support Buffer size PicoScope 4000 Series PicoScope software Power supply Processor Calibration CE notice Company information Compliance Repairs Connections...
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