I recently bought a DATS 2 system from Parts Express. I already owned a WT3 that I had upgraded to DATS v 1.02 software, but since the DATS hardware is supposed to be better than WT3 and it was Christmastime I decided to upgrade.
Well it turns out that the DATS 2 hardware I was sent was defective. When I was testing it I took out my old WT3 and ran that on the DATS 2 program (on a Windows 10 machine), and calibrated it, which gave me the odd results in the image. (In case you couldn't guess the green trace is supposed to be the real part of the 1K resistor's impedance). I tried calibrating the WT3 on a different Windows 10 machine on which I had loaded the DATS 2 software- same result. Just to convince myself that this mattered, I tried testing a few known value capacitors, and it turns out it does. Not surprisingly, the tested values were way off. I then reloaded the DATS 1.02 software on both of my machines (both of which are running Windows 10), and the WT3 calibrated perfectly,the capacitor values that were read by DATS 1 were very accurate and incidentally my WT3 hardware seems to run solidly under Windows 10.
So clearly there is some odd software interaction going on here. I have searched all of the settings I could find and nothing pops out-and as I said, when I reloaded the down level software all is just fine.
I haven't heard that anyone else has reported this behavior.Has anyone else seen it?
Well it turns out that the DATS 2 hardware I was sent was defective. When I was testing it I took out my old WT3 and ran that on the DATS 2 program (on a Windows 10 machine), and calibrated it, which gave me the odd results in the image. (In case you couldn't guess the green trace is supposed to be the real part of the 1K resistor's impedance). I tried calibrating the WT3 on a different Windows 10 machine on which I had loaded the DATS 2 software- same result. Just to convince myself that this mattered, I tried testing a few known value capacitors, and it turns out it does. Not surprisingly, the tested values were way off. I then reloaded the DATS 1.02 software on both of my machines (both of which are running Windows 10), and the WT3 calibrated perfectly,the capacitor values that were read by DATS 1 were very accurate and incidentally my WT3 hardware seems to run solidly under Windows 10.
So clearly there is some odd software interaction going on here. I have searched all of the settings I could find and nothing pops out-and as I said, when I reloaded the down level software all is just fine.
I haven't heard that anyone else has reported this behavior.Has anyone else seen it?