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Technical Topics => Equipment => Topic started by: IQ_imbalance on May 12, 2020, 1918 UTC

Title: fun toys (digital multimeters/oscilloscopes)
Post by: IQ_imbalance on May 12, 2020, 1918 UTC
Just putting this here....i'm a fan of things that leverage the damn expensive hardware i carry in my pocket...
https://pokitmeter.com/
https://www.oscium.com/oscilloscopes/imso-204
Title: Re: fun toys (digital multimeters/oscilloscopes)
Post by: redhat on May 12, 2020, 2329 UTC
For that much money, you could buy a far better real scope.

+-RH
Title: Re: fun toys (digital multimeters/oscilloscopes)
Post by: Stretchyman on May 13, 2020, 0918 UTC
Indeed, this is way overpriced.

Stick to Rigol and Siglent if you want a Scope and any old meter will do.

Keep your phone for making Phone Calls!

Str.
Title: Re: fun toys (digital multimeters/oscilloscopes)
Post by: Kage on May 14, 2020, 2138 UTC
For around $60 you can buy a Hantek 6022BE dual channel 20MHz DSO (oscilloscope) with BNC probes that will far outperform the one you linked. There are other models that can easily get to 100MHz or more for a little more cash.

I use mine with the free openhantek software (RichardK version) for Windows or Linux that is almost identical to the professional scope software instead of the software it came with which is a little clunky, and there are quite a few apps for android to connect the scope up to a tablet computer with a USB OTG adapter plug which is ridiculously useful when testing things "on site".

After using DSOs for a while I don't see myself using analog oscopes anytime soon unless I'm worried about testing high voltage. Anyone here into building electronics should have one of these on their workbench given how cheap they can be had for.

That multimeter looks suspiciously like this one...  :o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k04p4UgS6Y