WaveNow Potentiostat: Device Driver

Note: This is one of many articles describing how to use the Pine WaveNow USB Potentiostat

In order for the Microsoft Windows operating system on your computer to properly recognize a WaveNow USB potentiostat, certain device driver software must be installed on your system.

The proper device driver is generally the most recent “D2XX” USB driver offered by Future Technology Devices International, Ltd. (FTDI).

The FTDI website features a driver download page.

As of May 2011, the most recent version of the device driver for Windows was 2.08.14.

To download the driver as an executable file, click here.

In general, installation of the driver is a simple matter of downloading the driver package and clicking on the executable file. If you need step-by-step instructions for installing the driver, consult the following web page to locate the appropriate installation guide for your computer:

http://www.ftdichip.com/Support/Documents/InstallGuides.htm

To activate the device driver, your Windows system must “discover” the new instrument connected to your system.

For the Pine WaveNow USB Potentiostat, this discovery occurs when you turn on the potentiostat and connect it to your system via a USB cable. You should force your system to discover the WaveNow USB Potentiostat at a time when you are not running the AfterMath application. When you plug in the potentiostat for the first time, you will see various messages from the Windows operating system indicating the discovery of new hardware.

Only after Windows completes the task of configuring this new hardware should you run the AfterMath application. If the driver installation is successful, then the instrument should appear in the instrument list in the lower-left corner of the AfterMath screen.

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