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jetperch / pyjoulescope

Joulescope driver and utilities
https://www.joulescope.com
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Windows 10 Running as admin / non admin yeild different values #19

Closed efox29 closed 3 years ago

efox29 commented 3 years ago

Upgraded to 0.9.3 from 0.9.2 (dirty update - no uninstall). Installer installed in C:\Program Files (x86)\Joulescope and required admin rights on my work computer to install.

When using, my values were around 300-700uA when they should be < 200uA.

Downgraded to 0.9.2 (dirty downgrade). Same behavior.

Rebooted machine. Same behaviour.

Uninstalled 0.9.2 and installed 0.9.3. Same behaviour.

Ran 0.9.3 as admin, and the values are < 200uA.

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mliberty1 commented 3 years ago

HI @efox29 - This issue is certainly strange. Judging by the noise levels, I am guessing that the current range (or something else) is different between the two collections. Could you check that the current ranging is set the same in both cases? I normally recommend "auto", but just make sure that they are the same.

Your Joulescope stores config in %LOCALAPPDATA%, so perhaps this is different between the two runs. I just tried running as admin on my machine, and it seems to pull the same configuration settings. What do you see?

efox29 commented 3 years ago

@mliberty1 There are 2 configs one for my domain user account and one for the elevated local user (in their respective %localappdata% directories.

I thought they were both set to auto...

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Made it auto, and now I am able to get the correct values.

mliberty1 commented 3 years ago

Great! I'm glad that this was something easy...