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Welcome aboard! , The wps is a wonderful tool. If you speak with Tom about becoming a Picogroup member you will have access to some really cool stuff concerning pressure wave diagnosis.

There are some Brilliant minds here that love to help get the most from your Wps and your scope for that matter.

Again Welcome

I live Southwest of Portland.  McMinnville area.

Once I get more acquainted with things I'll look into becoming a member.  If I had know of you all before I would have bought my scope and accessories here.

I'm excited to learn and hopefully share some of my ridiculous experiments.  Yesterday I was scoping a coolant system with a very small head gasket leak looking for some insight into that use, but nothing ever came of it that was useful.  I'll scope anything I can get my hands on.

First of all, welcome.  I thin you will fit in well here.   

Grendelbiter wrote on Jan 31^st, 2015 at 9:23am:


We get that a lot.  Not sure why folks don't find us when they are shopping for a PicoScope.  We are the ones that introduced PicoScope to the automotive industry in North America and we are the ONLY PicoScope automotive specialists.  We have a good web presence and come up high in all the search engines.  And also happen to offer the best PicoScope automotive value anywhere.

Naturally, we would like to assist others in avoiding this mistake.  How exactly did you research where to get your kit?  Just trying to understand how this happens...

Adam knows better.  I'll have to scold him next time I see him.  He really gave you a bum steer.   

Grendelbiter wrote on Jan 31^st, 2015 at 12:01pm:


Sorry to hear that.  That's not good for anyone.

Grendelbiter wrote on Jan 31^st, 2015 at 12:01pm:


That's why we focus our attention on providing all the resources needed to achieve the desired level of expertise.  Of course, you have to use the resources and commit to investing in yourself by making the time to study and practice.  But, that time will be more focused and well spent.

For a summary of some of the available resources we have for our Picogroup members:

http://www.autonerdz.com/cgi/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1336513824

All these resources are a big investment in money and time for us.  I wish we could just give them away to everyone.  But then they would not be available to anyone after we went out of business.  Our loyal customers support these resources with their business.  So, we give back to those that make it possible.

I think you will find plenty to do here in the public areas of the forums.  Later, when you are ready to take the next step, give us a call.  We have a lot of subscribers.  They too kick themselves for not getting a kit from us to begin with.  It's a lot more expensive to subscribe year after year, but none have complained about the value they get for that subscription cost.  You have the added advantage to being able to drive to our training center for our hands-on training events.

Grendelbiter wrote on Jan 31^st, 2015 at 12:01pm:


That is the biggest business challenge we face.  Getting that information out there where no one can miss it.  And then getting them to do the math.  To comparison shop, you have to add up the cost of all the additional hardware in our kits and then add to that the cost of a Picogroup subscription for each and every year you intend to use that equipment.  And then....

The value of not wasting your time spinning your wheels?  Priceless.

Grendelbiter wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2015 at 11:23am:


There is far more compression cranking and a weak gasket is far likely to leak cold than hot due to contraction. Spark if needed to sync which cylinder the rise in water pressure happend on. To confirm the failing cylinder a cold start after a long soak with secondary set up right will show a fowled Spark line for just a couple of revolutions and then run normal.