Mini Oscilloscope

[WRUE951]

Anyone have any experience with this?   With discount code cost is $239..   Defiantly worth if it works??????  

 

https://www.fnirsi.com/products/dpos350p

[Lscott]

58 minutes ago, WRUE951 said:

Anyone have any experience with this?   With discount code cost is $239..   Defiantly worth if it works??????  

 

https://www.fnirsi.com/products/dpos350p

Looks like a good bit of the cost savings was doing away with the traditional controls, no knobs - push buttons etc. That means everything has to be done through the touch screen. Tiny menu settings and fat fingers don't make for a pleasant operating experience.

[WRUE951]

1 hour ago, Lscott said:

Looks like a good bit of the cost savings was doing away with the traditional controls, no knobs - push buttons etc. That means everything has to be done through the touch screen. Tiny menu settings and fat fingers don't make for a pleasant operating experience.

yea,,  thinking the same..  But they said the same thing with the Tiny Spectrum Analyzer  and i love the device.. I don's use thumbs or fingers, i use a pen pad stylus..   I'm thinking of getting this.  My Oscilloscope source has retired and moved to AZ leaving me high and dry..  

[SteveShannon]

47 minutes ago, WRUE951 said:

yea,,  thinking the same..  But they said the same thing with the Tiny Spectrum Analyzer  and i love the device.. I don's use thumbs or fingers, i use a pen pad stylus..   I'm thinking of getting this.  My Oscilloscope source has retired and moved to AZ leaving me high and dry..  

I haven’t looked into this but hopefully they have a software program that can control it from a pc. 

[Lscott]

1 hour ago, WRUE951 said:

yea,,  thinking the same..  But they said the same thing with the Tiny Spectrum Analyzer  and i love the device.. I don's use thumbs or fingers, i use a pen pad stylus..   I'm thinking of getting this.  My Oscilloscope source has retired and moved to AZ leaving me high and dry..  

You can get a decent dual or quad channel scope from Rigol or Siglnet. 

https://www.rigolna.com/products/digital-oscilloscopes/1000z/?srsltid=AfmBOoq2bRx15El9ycZvSSCi6OgpdDeIvbIipWFNl2DJeCLXNXmRZwKT

https://siglentna.com/digital-oscilloscopes/sds1000dl-series-digital-storage-oscilloscopes/

Myself I have my eye on a spectrum analyzer. Either the SSA3032X or the SSA3032X Plus.

https://siglentna.com/spectrum-analyzers/ssa3000x-series-spectrum-analyzers/

https://siglentna.com/spectrum-analyzers/ssa3000x-plus/

 

[WRUE951]

Interesting,  QRZ did a review on a Siglent last year but the model they reviewed was $600 bucks..  The review was pretty decent..   I'll got thrugh these and figure this out.   

[WRXB215]

I'm sure any of those will be nicer to use than my old boat anchors.

[Lscott]

15 hours ago, WRXB215 said:

I'm sure any of those will be nicer to use than my old boat anchors.

You can buy really nice used scopes at Ham swaps for good prices. I've seen plenty of dual channel 100MHz Techtronic scopes for sale for $100 to $200.  

In fact good used test gear is one of the things I always look out for. For a hobbyist it a great way to build up a test bench for a few $100's to a $1000 depending on what you want. You can easily end up with gear that would have cost several $10K's if purchased new at the time.

At a minimum I would recommend a couple of variable DC power supplies (0 to 30 VDC at 1 to 2 amps), function generator (good to 5MHz), dual channel scope (50 MHz to 100 MHz) and a good bench top 4.5 digit multi-meter.  

After that you can look for more specialized gear like RF power meters, frequency counters, LCR meters, electronic loads, service monitors etc. depending on one's area of interest. 

Most of my more specialized stuff is stored away unless I'm using it. I have a dual channel HP frequency counter I have to do some work on (replace a noisy fan and install the optional 4GHz prescaler.) GPS disciplined 10MHz frequency standard, a used Rubidium atomic frequency standard, 200 MHz quad channel scope, 6.5 digit bench multi-meter, 20 MHz dual channel arbitrary digital waveform generator, 200 watt electronic load ...