MScope - Long-Term-Oscilloscope for Metex M36xx and maybe M38xx, M46xx and ME-11

Introduction

I did not like the software provided with the Metex M3640D, and therefore, back in 1997, made a new program which suited me much better. It records one measurement over a period of up to 24 hours, and can manage, store and load up to records.
The results can all be printed and copied into the Windows clipboard using resource-saving metafile graphics, and thus exported easily to other applications.

It should work with device which use the "Metex 14 Byte Polling Interface", see here:
http://www.mtoussaint.de/cdmm/doc/index.html
Available models (2017) are the UNI-T UT61B and the Radio Shack 22-805..

Anyone who has Corel Draw can install the font 'LCD' and so produce an attractive-looking LCD-like display. Otherwise, the font Arial will be used.

The software is made for my M3640D but may work with similar Metex meters as M38xx, M46xx, ME-11 and of course the same devices sold under different brands, e.g. the RadioShack 22-805.

Here are examples of three curves for rechargeable Mignon batteries discharging into a 1.5V filament lamp. Cyan is a new NiMH cell, Red is a really old 1200mAh NiMH, and Green is an even older 500mAh NC cell.

And this is how printed and copied graphics should appear (reduced scale):

Download

This program is freeware.

History:

V1.01 (26th July 2000):
- Bugfix: Runtime error 50003 removed
- Bugfix: Autoscale in negative range now works

V1.04 (23th March 2004):
- Bugfix: Files always saved with dot as decimal, loading works with dot and komma
- Bugfix: graphic in clipboard not cropped
- New: Files saved with semikolon as column mark - better for Excel import

V1.06 (29th May 2010):
- New: Compiled with VB6, so no more extra runtimes needed under Win2000, XP and higher
- New: No more OCX required
- New: Some right border when printing

V1.07 (30th Aug 2010):
- Bugfix: Crash on print or clipboard copy using high display resolution
- New: Font size for printing and copy to clipboard reduced

V1.08 (9th Feb 2014):
- New: Instead of COM1..4 any available port can be selected

Download:
https://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/mscope.zip

Under Win9x you might need the VB6 Runtimes.

The source code is not in shape for publishing but maybe it's useful for someone:
https://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/mscope_src.zip

Here are interesting information (in German) about programming software for METEX DMMs:
http://home.arcor.de/bernd_kunze/selfprog.htm

A german 'how to' for making the connection cable:
http://www.gerald-gradl.de/eprojects/multi/body_multi.html