L.W. (ßill) ------ III did pass the time by typing:
> Hi Doug,
> I don't know if you can program your oscilloscope to work like an
> auto diagnostic tool, but if you could program the ignition system to
> show all the spark plugs on the screen at once, so that you could do
> balance tests, and then other things show up like a sore thumb, like bad
> ignition wires to cross firing between cylinders for a couple, saving
> hours of testing: http://www.----------.com/oscilloscopeIgnitionTest.jpg

Don't think it's possible. The scope is only two channel and I've only
got one clamp on pickup.

But I can store the waveforms in memory and do that on the computer.
Just not real-time.

On the other hand I have seen PC based testers out there for reasonable
costs. Picotech.com makes one but it doesn't look like it does multiple
spark plugs like a Sun or SnapOn analizer does.

--
DougW

 

DougW proclaimed:
> L.W. (ßill) ------ III did pass the time by typing:
>
>>Hi Doug,
>> I don't know if you can program your oscilloscope to work like an
>>auto diagnostic tool, but if you could program the ignition system to
>>show all the spark plugs on the screen at once, so that you could do
>>balance tests, and then other things show up like a sore thumb, like bad
>>ignition wires to cross firing between cylinders for a couple, saving
>>hours of testing: http://www.----------.com/oscilloscopeIgnitionTest.jpg
>
>
> Don't think it's possible. The scope is only two channel and I've only
> got one clamp on pickup.
>
> But I can store the waveforms in memory and do that on the computer.
> Just not real-time.
>
> On the other hand I have seen PC based testers out there for reasonable
> costs. Picotech.com makes one but it doesn't look like it does multiple
> spark plugs like a Sun or SnapOn analizer does.
>

There are also PC based multichannel O-scopes that work reasonably
well, particularly for low frequency stuff like automobiles.

 

DougW proclaimed:
> L.W. (ßill) ------ III did pass the time by typing:
>
>>Hi Doug,
>> I don't know if you can program your oscilloscope to work like an
>>auto diagnostic tool, but if you could program the ignition system to
>>show all the spark plugs on the screen at once, so that you could do
>>balance tests, and then other things show up like a sore thumb, like bad
>>ignition wires to cross firing between cylinders for a couple, saving
>>hours of testing: http://www.----------.com/oscilloscopeIgnitionTest.jpg
>
>
> Don't think it's possible. The scope is only two channel and I've only
> got one clamp on pickup.
>
> But I can store the waveforms in memory and do that on the computer.
> Just not real-time.
>
> On the other hand I have seen PC based testers out there for reasonable
> costs. Picotech.com makes one but it doesn't look like it does multiple
> spark plugs like a Sun or SnapOn analizer does.
>

There are also PC based multichannel O-scopes that work reasonably
well, particularly for low frequency stuff like automobiles.

 

DougW proclaimed:
> L.W. (ßill) ------ III did pass the time by typing:
>
>>Hi Doug,
>> I don't know if you can program your oscilloscope to work like an
>>auto diagnostic tool, but if you could program the ignition system to
>>show all the spark plugs on the screen at once, so that you could do
>>balance tests, and then other things show up like a sore thumb, like bad
>>ignition wires to cross firing between cylinders for a couple, saving
>>hours of testing: http://www.----------.com/oscilloscopeIgnitionTest.jpg
>
>
> Don't think it's possible. The scope is only two channel and I've only
> got one clamp on pickup.
>
> But I can store the waveforms in memory and do that on the computer.
> Just not real-time.
>
> On the other hand I have seen PC based testers out there for reasonable
> costs. Picotech.com makes one but it doesn't look like it does multiple
> spark plugs like a Sun or SnapOn analizer does.
>

There are also PC based multichannel O-scopes that work reasonably
well, particularly for low frequency stuff like automobiles.

 

DougW proclaimed:
> L.W. (ßill) ------ III did pass the time by typing:
>
>>Hi Doug,
>> I don't know if you can program your oscilloscope to work like an
>>auto diagnostic tool, but if you could program the ignition system to
>>show all the spark plugs on the screen at once, so that you could do
>>balance tests, and then other things show up like a sore thumb, like bad
>>ignition wires to cross firing between cylinders for a couple, saving
>>hours of testing: http://www.----------.com/oscilloscopeIgnitionTest.jpg
>
>
> Don't think it's possible. The scope is only two channel and I've only
> got one clamp on pickup.
>
> But I can store the waveforms in memory and do that on the computer.
> Just not real-time.
>
> On the other hand I have seen PC based testers out there for reasonable
> costs. Picotech.com makes one but it doesn't look like it does multiple
> spark plugs like a Sun or SnapOn analizer does.
>

There are also PC based multichannel O-scopes that work reasonably
well, particularly for low frequency stuff like automobiles.