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The best way to include a picture in a post is by simply copy/paste the image in the text Use an image snipping tool to get the image with the required size in the copy buffer. -- For more info on the tinySA go to https://tinysa.org/wiki/
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What to do when a selftest fails
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If one or more of the self test of the tinySA fails AND you did NOT buy from one of the safe sellers (see wiki) you can do the following: If the Attenuator test (test 12 in the latest FW) fails follow this guide in the wiki: https://tinysa.org/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.CheckTheAttenuator If the serial number at the back of your tinySA starts with "AD" you have a clone. Complain and get a refund. If the text next to the high input connector is "HICH" you have a clone. Complain and get a refund. For other failures make a photo of the front and back of the tinySA and a photo or screen capture of the failing self test such that it is possible to read the text on the screen and post a message with the pictures. ------------------------------------------ For more info on the tinySA go to https://tinysa.org/wiki/
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Measuring resonant coil outputs
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Hi all, I’m new to this group, a physicist by background but also new to using a spectrum analyser. Before I go and actually buy the Aursinc V0.3.1 model, I wanted to ask about how I might go about making measurements relevant to my research so I can be sure this is the best and most affordable approach. To summarise, I am investigating resonance in coils driven at radio frequencies and high voltages and looking at the standing waves that result from certain coil configurations and wire lengths. To make it easier to show what I’m doing, I attach some graphics showing the circuit (without an output load), a typical coil configuration and an example of standing waves that show on a scope using a low-powered setup of 18V to the primary coil. In particular, the queries I have are: Can I detect what frequencies are emanating from the coils by using the supplied aerial placed within say 50cm of the coils? What sort of attenuator would I need to cope with the high voltages and power in the secondary in particular? Are there any others known about how are doing this type of measurements? Will the tinySA-App work with Windows 10? Thank you in advance for any help. Julian Perry Kerrowenergetics.org.uk
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TinySA ULTRA 4" - No longer works
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The device was purchased on 2023.12.10 from the official AliExpress store "Zeenko Store". I used the device a couple of times during the entire period and was satisfied with the device. In 2024, I updated the software and everything worked correctly. In other words, the device was in its box for six months and now when I started the device, something happened to the hardware, because almost all the circuits are out of order. I also did a "Clear Config" and removed the battery from the device for a few hours, but that didn't fix the situation. Additionally, I noticed: * The device will no longer save changes to the time and date. * Windows computer no longer connects to device * "PRESET" - "LOAD FROM SD" - "ERROR NO CARD" (32GB SD card is actually fine) Has anyone else experienced this error and can it still be repaired ? I'm attaching some pictures of the device's condition. Sincerely, g.
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Auto Save Issues
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I want to take continuous trace data every 500 ms. I go to level -> trigger -> and turn on auto save and set the interval to 500 ms. I believe this should give me what I want. However I do NOT get a new save every 500 ms. I get a new save about every 30 seconds. Why is this? What settings should I change? Thanks,
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Zelftest 3: signal level critical
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Heb de TinySA ultra nog niet heel lang. Maar zie dat de zelftest faalt Zelftest 3 geeft signal level critical Ook met het vervangen van de kabel. Ik ga er eerst maar vanuit dat ik iets verkeerd doe. Iemand advies of heb ik zo heel snel iets opgeblazen? Johan
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Input RF switch fault found on TinySA ultra
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Based on the "fault finding" tab at tinysa.org, my SA ultra's input RF switch chip U22 (AS179-92LF) has failed. This chip is so tiny it seems there is not a soldering iron or tweezer small enough to replace it. It's like a microscope-dependent repair! Has anyone had success with this repair, or is it just smarter to buy a whole new SA Ultra?
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Help ! Calling Ghostbusters.
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I have a large home on a hill in a fairly isolated peri-urban area, which I wouldn't expect to be subject to massive interference. However, I also have >500 electronic devices, either plugged-in, on battery or hardwired. Many of them wireless devices, and are experiencing intermittent connectivity problems, on all kinds of frequencies. I know that after living 15 years in this haunted house, I am long overdue for the purchase of an EMI detector. I am trying to figure out which to get, and how to use it. The tinySA Ultra seems like it might be up to the task, but I'm still not sure how I would proceed with the investigation. Here are some of the devices/bands I experience problems on. - Various frequencies - smartphones cell networks have never worked properly indoors with any operator, despite the coverage map. They work in some outdoor locations but not others. This is probably on the operators just lying through their teeth with their coverage maps, and not interference. But our current phones dance alternately between no signal, GSM, 2G, 4G, LTE, 5G. It's essentially impossible to make any cell calls and not have them drop. We have to use Wifi calling. - 2.4 GHz / 5 GHz Wifi devices have lots of problems, especially 2.4 GHz IoT devices. The 9 APs are Ubiquiti Unifi. Two of them are wired, 7 meshed. Many clients don't connect for a long time or at all, a bunch connect to very distant APs, some have elevated packet loss, and some have very high ping times - I have seen as high as 10 seconds. There are now about 300 total Wifi 2.4 GHz clients with the recent addition of 220 Philips Wiz bulb in the last few months. I don't currently have any 6 GHz APs (Wifi 6e/7). I have a couple 6e capable clients (one phone, one laptop). There are only 9 5 GHz clients in the house - two phones, two laptops, two Raspberry Pi 3B+ used as controllers for my 2 Carrier Infinity HVAC, and 3 Enphase solar gateways. - 1.9 GHz - Panasonic DECT 6.0. This generally works pretty well, but the handsets sometimes don't connect to the base when pressing "Talk", and needs to be put into OFF mode and back ON . Likely a device bug, but I have only seen it happen with distant handsets, and not the one in the room closest to the base, so I can't rule out interference completely. - 923 MHz : Yolink devices sometimes lose connectivity, especially distant ones. That's the case intermittently for the water leak sensor at the bottom of one of my water heaters, for instance. And the door and temperature sensor in my garage freezer. My other 12 Yolink devices work very well. But I'm not adding any more until they have a local hub. - 912 - 920 MHz : my 30 Z-Wave LR devices have many problems. Many nodes go "dead" frequently in Home Assistant/Z-Wave JS UI and randomly become unusable. Some are distant, but others not so far. I have switched every single LR device to non-LR so the devices don't lose signal altogether. The traditional Z-Wave mesh seems to work much better (or not as bad, see below). This could be device bugs due to LR implementations still being relatively recent. - 908 MHz : Z-Wave non-LR devices often have very long reaction time as well. Again, I have seen 10 seconds response time, just like for Wifi devices. Unfortunately, there are also lots of outright transmission failures, especially when communicating with several devices consecutively, such to turn off all light switches in the house. Many switches don't turn off, and require a second attempt. Currently, there is a total of about 70 Z-Wave devices. - 433 MHz : Simplisafe v3 . I have one distant door sensor and keypad that randomly drop out of range of the base station. All 3 are stationary, and I don't quite understand why this happens. I could relocate the keypad, but can't relocate the door sensor. There are not many options for me to relocate the base that won't cause other devices to go out of range. I'm looking for some kind of wall or ceiling mount for the base station in order to improve this, but there is nothing available off the shelf. There are about 20 Simplisafe devices. I wond
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Testing coax cable
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Hello, I have a tinySA Ultra+ and I would like to measure a 50ohm coax cable, anyone who can help me out how to do this? I guess you can use the CAL output in combination with the RF input? I would like to see how many dB loss I have in the range of lets say 470Mhz-600Mhz. Thanks!
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Would like to report a new fake chinese hardware for TinySA
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I don't like FAKE hardware clones. The original developers/artists/etc deserve that (as one myself). Is this the right place to report a new clone I found? Thanks.
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TinaSA Ultra - Sweep command giving back random data error in dBm Field.
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Hi all Has anyone had trouble with dodgy data in the dBm field in the data returned from a sweep. e,g, "sweep 520M 530M 21" I am getting: 552700000 -:.000000e+01 0.000000000 You will notice that the "-" sign is intact, but the characteristic part (the integer before the decimal point) has been replaced with a colon ":" It is always the same error pattern and only occurs in the second field of the data record. I doubt it is a comm's issue as it would not affect the same character each time. I tried a couple of slower baud rates, but that made no difference. I am sweeping selected bands and averaging the spectra using a running mean. When I get bad data I exclude it from the running mean so I am still getting valid results. I have attached a log of the errors reported by my application.
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measuring spectrum of a single pulse not feasible with TinySA?
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I want to measure the frequency spread of a single pulse arising from capacitor discharge into a coil, but it sounds like from the discussion here on measuring radar pulses that this will not be feasible with TinySA. The sweep rate is too slow (?) I can guess what the fundamental frequency ought to be based on the LC formula and fish around that area in zero span mode (?), but I'd really like to see what kind of harmonics are contained in the pulse and what their relative amplitudes are compared to the fundamental. Any ideas besides having to spend thousands more on another spectrum analyzer?
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?Red paused“ information, wenn running tinysa-app on windows
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?Hi Erik, I am running the tinysa-app on windows, everything runs well, but starting the continuous scan in the app, on my tinysa I see the ?red paused“ info in the infobar. What does it mean? The tinysa runs continuously without pause! Have you an idea? Best regards Hartmut Dr. Hartmut Brand Aichtal www.hartmutbrand.de Von meinem iPhone gesendet
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Manual fault finding
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I've added a page to the wiki describing some steps for manual fault finding. Could some of the users that have (had) problems with their HW have a look at this page and check if it helps them locating the probable faulty component(s) https://tinysa.org/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=TinySA4.FaultFinding -- Designer of the tinySA For more info go to https://tinysa.org/wiki
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Hunting Spurious Emission at 154 MHz
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I was exploring the VHF High public service bands (150 - 162 MHz) on my tinySA spectrum analyzer using the waterfall display. I noticed a very strong, very narrow, very clean unmodulated FM carrier at exactly 154MHz. I noticed the strength varied as I moved around the house but I could not locate a source on the end of the house with the strongest signal. So I swapped to a small rubber ducky antenna on the tinySA and headed outside. The emission was clearly coming from a neighbor's house. Neighbor is a great guy so I knocked and we went looking for the source and suspected an older Windows PC desktop. He shut it down and the emission went away. Likely a failed filtering capacitor or choke in the switching power supply. Don't know if he'll bother to fix or replace it, but I had fun hunting it down. I didn't think of it at the time but I may have been seeing a harmonic and probably should have checked 38.5 MHz using the tinySA MEASURE/HARMONIC tool as that is a more likely frequency from a failing switching power supply. Maybe next time he boots the PC... Peter
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Advice on connecting TinySA Ultra to audio amplifier
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I would be thankful for any advice on how to connect my TinySA Ultra to the amplifiers I am trying to repair. Currently working on Magnavox Chassis # R204 Using a RF Signal Generator is relatively new to me so am having trouble understanding how to physically connect the signal generator to the FM and AM input. For example, do I need an attenuator between the Ultra and FM antenna input connectors?
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Enhancement Requests: File Management Sort By Name and Rename
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I have found many neat uses for my Ultra and find the capabilities quite rich and the device very easy to use and configure. Thank you! I do have a couple suggestions around file management. Perhaps either one is already implemented and I just missed it? 1. In the dialogs where filenames are displayed, it appears files are sorted by file creation date. I find in most cases, for me anyway, a sort by name would be much preferred. My next preferred sort would be reverse by modification date (most recently modified first). 2. Additionally, it would be great if there were a way to rename files (directly, not by connecting a PC or other device). As a thought to solve both of these, two control buttons could be added to the "Preset / Load SD" page: One on the left-bottom corner to the right of the DEL control labeled REN for REName. This would permit selection of a file followed by the file naming dialog. One on the right-bottom corner to the left of the X control labeled SRT for SoRT. This would toggle the file sort order between whatever options are permitted (preference being name, modification date, creation date). Bonus points if sort order saved across boots. Peter
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Defect Report: Restore Multi-Band from SD Does Not Restore RBW
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A multi-band configuration when restored from SD does not restore RBW. Duplicate by changing the RBW followed by a restore. Oddly, the RBW field in the display shows the incorrect RBW actually being used but when you click on it to bring up the RBW setting the correct/desired value is checked, not the one actually in use. NOTE: This is only a defect for configurations WITH multi-band AND when saved to SD, not one of the 4 in-memory slots. If you prefer, I can open an issue in for this in github. Not sure of proper protocol. Peter
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New FW release: Corrected selftest 8
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New FW release Version V1.4199 Changes: - Selftest 8 corrected. -- Designer of the tinySA For more info go to https://tinysa.org/wiki
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TinySA Ultra Unresponive
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Something went wrong with my TinySA Ultra after I updated the firmware earlier this evening. I get this screen when I turn the unit on and nothing else:
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