Quote from: TimO on 01 December, 2008, 08:36:34 pmReally you want some stepper motors to point the light as you sweep it around, a light meter with a suitable interface, likewise a current clamp, and obviously everything plugged into a computer to control it. You just plug a light into it, go away for some tea and cake, and come back to a screen full of results. Of course you also need a controller for the motors and servos.There are a few widgets around which allow this sort of interface, the various Bee things would do the jobs for a Windows box, so long as you don't mind writing the code to talk to the C DLL they supply. I'm sure there are similar things for Linux.Are you sure that would work? It just seems too simple.
Really you want some stepper motors to point the light as you sweep it around, a light meter with a suitable interface, likewise a current clamp, and obviously everything plugged into a computer to control it. You just plug a light into it, go away for some tea and cake, and come back to a screen full of results. Of course you also need a controller for the motors and servos.There are a few widgets around which allow this sort of interface, the various Bee things would do the jobs for a Windows box, so long as you don't mind writing the code to talk to the C DLL they supply. I'm sure there are similar things for Linux.