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Re: Issue with Talons

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Originally Posted by Ether View Post
This is an excellent suggestion.

If your team doesn't have a scope and can't afford one, there's a fairly simple and inexpensive way I have used to create a piece of test equipment that will do things like this, using the RS232 or parallel port of an old laptop. If there's enough interest I will post a paper about it. PM me.


As scary as it sounds, you can also use a computer's line-in port and Audacity to take in a waveform. You'll want to use a voltage divider to limit the voltage going into your PC as to not fry your sound card, but it's doable and works pretty well in my experience.

http://www.ledametrix.com/oscope/index.html
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