I am a mechanical engineering student entering my junior year and I am currently taking an online course that requires the use of the Analog Discovery 2, as well as WaveForms 2015. For the first experiment of the course, a simple circuit with two resisters were to be set up in series and the voltage was to be recorded over each resistor. When I attempted the experiment, the volt meter in WaveForms was not giving a reading. After a few hours of messing around and multiple different simple circuits, I still have not been able to receive a voltage output, even though I followed all the instructions given on the analog discovery website. I even resorted to watching multiple videos from the Digilent YouTube channel and recreating their setup. I was hoping someone would be able to instruct me of a way to test the device to see whether or not it is working correctly, or to get instructions on how to correctly output voltage. I have the analog discovery 2 plugged into my laptop via USB and when plugged in a green light continuously flashes on the device. One of the videos on the Digilent YouTube channel shows the orange "Scope Channel 1 Positive" wire being attached to the yellow "Waveform Generator 1" wire, and then the "Scope Channel 1 Negative" wire being connected to a ground. Then, in the waveform tab DC is selected and it is set to an output of 5 volts. The voltmeter tab is then selected and it displays a reading of 5 volts. When I recreated this, the voltmeter was recording obscure numbers, for example -4 mV. If anyone can help figure out my issue it would be appreciated.
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I am a mechanical engineering student entering my junior year and I am currently taking an online course that requires the use of the Analog Discovery 2, as well as WaveForms 2015. For the first experiment of the course, a simple circuit with two resisters were to be set up in series and the voltage was to be recorded over each resistor. When I attempted the experiment, the volt meter in WaveForms was not giving a reading. After a few hours of messing around and multiple different simple circuits, I still have not been able to receive a voltage output, even though I followed all the instructions given on the analog discovery website. I even resorted to watching multiple videos from the Digilent YouTube channel and recreating their setup. I was hoping someone would be able to instruct me of a way to test the device to see whether or not it is working correctly, or to get instructions on how to correctly output voltage. I have the analog discovery 2 plugged into my laptop via USB and when plugged in a green light continuously flashes on the device. One of the videos on the Digilent YouTube channel shows the orange "Scope Channel 1 Positive" wire being attached to the yellow "Waveform Generator 1" wire, and then the "Scope Channel 1 Negative" wire being connected to a ground. Then, in the waveform tab DC is selected and it is set to an output of 5 volts. The voltmeter tab is then selected and it displays a reading of 5 volts. When I recreated this, the voltmeter was recording obscure numbers, for example -4 mV. If anyone can help figure out my issue it would be appreciated.
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