Re: What to do when a selftest fails
Tom
What type of sources have used in combination with the tinySA?
An sources that generate possibly more than +10dB?
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Erik Kaashoek
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Re: What to do when a selftest fails
Tom,
This is a very clear failure of the 4dB step of the built in attenuator. Agree you should ask for an exchange. Refer to this measurement as
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Erik Kaashoek
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Re: What to do when a selftest fails
Erik:
So I upgraded to 1.1-77. Had to manually install drivers from win64 drivers folder.? Ran 30db test twice and it failed badly 4 to 5 db variation. I did a recalibrate after firmware update and
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Tom D'Orsay
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Re: Tip of the day
Good point. Never thought about this. Makes totally good sense.
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Brian Donaldson
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Re: no DFU device found?
Thanks Mike. I had the same problem yesterday.
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Dennis Roth N3AZB
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Re: NEw FW: Linearity test enabled
First run unit does nicely in this test
73
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"Erik Kaashoek" <erik@...> wrote:
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Jim Shorney
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Re: New tinySA failing Self-test after FW upgrade
Herb. I was not sure 0.5dB steps where needed and it is working by accident in the tinySA
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Erik Kaashoek
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Re: New tinySA failing Self-test after FW upgrade
This picture is very good evidence of a failing attenuator. Suggest you take this up with your supplier.
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Erik Kaashoek
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Re: New tinySA failing Self-test after FW upgrade
For interest sake, I ran the new test...
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Nicholas R
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Re: What to do when a selftest fails
Yes, that is good
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Erik Kaashoek
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Re: What to do when a selftest fails
Eric:
The test on my unit seems to start at 29dB of attenuation.
charlie
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charlie carroll
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Re: NEw FW: Linearity test enabled
Added some pictures to the wiki page as measurement examples
https://tinysa.org/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.CheckTheAttenuator
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Erik Kaashoek
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NEw FW: Linearity test enabled
New FW released
Version v1.1-77
Changes:
- MEASURE/MORE/LINEAR added
The linearity test requires an input signal between -40dB and -25dB and a single marker positioned on that signal.
Activating the
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Erik Kaashoek
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Re: What to do when a selftest fails
It would help us if you could install the a new FW. V1.1-77 and run an additional test
Connect high and low with SMA cable
Set CAL OUTPUT to 30MHz
Start MEASURE/MORE/LINEAR
A green line should
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Erik Kaashoek
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Re: What to do when a selftest fails
Received Tiny SA from R&L last week. After calibration only attenuator test 11 failed.
Did manual 30mhz attenuator test as suggested.
Came with v 1.1-52 Dec 14 2020. Not updated
1 db step failed at 4
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Tom D'Orsay
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Re: New tinySA failing Self-test after FW upgrade
While playing around with some code to also step through the 64 attenuator positions,? I noticed that 0.5 dB steps can be entered from the on-screen keypad but only only 1 dB steps can be programmed
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hwalker
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Re: I originally asked: good source & non-expensive url for Attenuators
I did some thinking here, plus some math and testing, then I found an excellent youtube from W0QE describing all that was asked here :) The only reason NOT to check his presentation would be the time
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Miro, N9LR
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Re: New tinySA failing Self-test after FW upgrade
There is already such an attenuator linearity test in the code. But disabled at the moment.
It steps through all 64 attenuator positions (0.5dB per step) and if all is well it should draw a perfect
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Erik Kaashoek
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Re: New tinySA failing Self-test after FW upgrade
Erik,
To take the drudgery out of manually entering 31 attenuator values, would it be possible to either add a module to TinySA-App (Settings?) that performs an extended attenuator test, as outlined
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hwalker
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Re: Selftest errors
Thanks.
The attenuator seems bad. Suggest you contact your supplier for resolution while referring to this communication.
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Erik Kaashoek
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