<d1b2>
<Code and Solder> In any case I'm reasonably optimistic about the Chinese option, I got an SMA-SMPM male adapter to do VNA measurements
<d1b2>
<Code and Solder> The NanoVNA being a bit of a limiting factor but I don't currenty have any excuse to make my work buy something better or budget to get it on my own
<azonenberg>
2.92 to SMA will work reasonably well, yes. It's just that SMA tends to be made to looser tolerances
<azonenberg>
and mating to a bad one can easily damage a 2.92 which is a bit more fragile being air dielectric
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[scopehal-apps] 602p fee6cce - Move towards unifying on-connect behaviour with ngscope. Enable only those channels already enabled on connect, except for: - On headless scopes, enable all analog channels. Or, if no analog, all digital. - On regular scopes, if no channels enabled, enable the first.
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[scopehal-apps] azonenberg ee0f90a - Merge pull request #546 from 602p/glscope_respect_enabled_channels Move towards unifying on-connect behaviour in glscope with ngscope
<d1b2>
<Code and Solder> Looking through potential power connectors it seems the smallest commonly available pitch for wire-to-board is 0.8mm, 28-32AWG, 1-2A, 3.8x3.2mm board space, for example MOLEX Zero-Hachi: https://www.molex.com/pdm_docs/sd/2147210020_sd.pdf
<d1b2>
<Code and Solder> By the way, are you working on a power supply for the probes? I'm thinking about designing something nice and convinient powered from USB-C with USB-PD with one LT3045-1 per channel probably
<d1b2>
<Code and Solder> I'm torn between making it modular for different voltages or some easy adjustment
<azonenberg>
So i am definitely interested in designing a supply. one of the challenges is that currently the AV1 and AD4 need different voltages
<azonenberg>
both will survive either voltage but the AD4 prefers a lower input IIRC to minimize dissipation in the LDOs, since it runs hot already
<azonenberg>
(it's the same power stage - an inverting charge pump + LDO for the negative and an LDO for the positive - for both. Just different feedback resistors for different output voltages)
<d1b2>
<Code and Solder> As long as everything is compatible a button/switch to cycle between presets seems like the easiest option
<d1b2>
<Code and Solder> RFID tag on the probe with the preset to reconfigure by touch is probably overkill
<azonenberg>
It's short term compatible
<azonenberg>
without instant hardware damage
<azonenberg>
If you give the AV1 the lower voltage meant for the AD4, it won't work right
<azonenberg>
if you give the AD4 the higher voltage meant for the AV1, it will probably overheat because the LDOs are dropping more voltage than they were sized for
<d1b2>
<Code and Solder> Profiling based on I/V curve should be possible, in theory
<d1b2>
<Code and Solder> Step voltage from 0 to like 3V recording current and decide based on that
<azonenberg>
Yeah thats a possibility
<azonenberg>
The other is to have the two probes use incompatible-by-design connectors
<azonenberg>
and apply fixed voltages to each
<d1b2>
<Code and Solder> That would require swapping cables when changing probes though, and avoiding that seems neater, especially with RF cable being the same