Picoscope 2205A Oscilloscope

doctorcdf over 4 years ago

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The PicoScope 2200A Series oscilloscopes offer a small, light, modern alternative to bulky benchtop devices. You can now fit a 200 MHz, 1 GS/s instrument easily in your laptop bag! They are perfect for engineers on the move; ideal for a wide range of applications including design, test, education, service, monitoring, fault finding, and repair.

A small form factor is not the only benefit of these PC-based scopes. With our PicoScope 6 software, high-end features such as serial decoding and mask limit testing are included as standard. New functionality is regularly delivered through free upgrades, optimized with the help of feedback from our customers.

Features

Input channels: 2
Bandwidth: 25 MHz
Maximum sampling rate: 200 MS/s
Buffer memory: 16 kS
Function generator + AWG: 100 kHz
Rise time (calculated): 14 ns
Vertical resolution: 8 bits
Enhanced vertical resolution: Up to 12 bits
Input Ranges: ±50 mV, ±100 mV, ±200 mV, ±500 mV, ±1 V, ±2 V, ±5 V, ±10 V, ±20 V
Input sensitivity: 10 mV/div to 4 V/div (10 vertical divisions)
Input Characteristics: BNC, 1MΩ || 14pF
Analog Offset Range (vertical position adjustment): None
DC Accuracy: +- 3% of full scale
Overvoltage Protections: +- 100V (DC+AC peak)
Maximum Sampling Rate
- 1 Channel - 200MS/s
- 2 Channel - 100MS/s
Equivalent Sampling Rate (ETS) - 4GS/s
Maximum Sampling Rate (continuous streaming mode) - 1MS/s
Timebase Ranges - 5ns to 5000s/div
Buffer Memory - 16kS
Buffer Memory (streaming mode) - 2 MS per channel in PicoScope software
Waveform Buffer - Up to 10,000 waveforms
Timebase Accuracy - +-100ppm

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Terms & Conditions

Testers will be selected on the basis of quality of applications: we expect a full and complete description of why you want to test this particular product.
Testers are required to produce a full, comprehensive and well thought out review within 2 months of receipt of the product.
Failure to provide this review within the above timescale will result in the enrolee being excluded from future Road Tests.

RoadTest Reviews

Comments

terrydark over 12 years ago

Hi Christian,

I was checking links on the Pico and noticed the link to road test page for it no longer appears on the road test landing page.

Has the status of this road test changed that would prevent its listing on the page? Is the Pico oscilloscope page still available? Last year, during the Atmel review, I had access to the info page for the course of the road test.

Regards
Terry
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terrydark over 12 years ago

My scope arrived late last week. I just grabbed a chance to have a quick look and all seems to be there.

Thanks Element14 and Pico
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doctorcdf over 12 years ago

I'm pleased to say that the oscilloscopes have shipped and the tracking numbers have been issued to the testers. Thanks very much.
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e14 Contributor over 12 years ago

This Oscilloscope Looks Amazing And Looks Like It Will Work Great! Keep Up The Good Developers!
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Gough Lui over 12 years ago in reply to doctorcdf

Thanks so much for the opportunity - I'll do my best as usual .

- Gough
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terrydark over 12 years ago in reply to doctorcdf

Thanks for including me as a tester for the Pico oscilloscope. I will endeavour to submit a thorough record of my experience with the product. Congratulations to my fellow testers on being selected with me.
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gpolder over 12 years ago in reply to doctorcdf

thanks for selecting me, I'm looking forward to review the unit.
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sunnyiut over 12 years ago

Thanks to everyone involved in this RoadTest. I really appreciate TEAM PICO for the additional 3 oscilloscopes!!!!!!!!
I do believe that we'll have quality reviews out of this RoadTest.
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doctorcdf over 12 years ago
First and foremost, many thanks for all the detailled and carefully crafted proposals we received for this RoadTest. Even with increased numbers of units, it was difficult to make a decision. However, we have chosen the following individuals to test this product:
Terry Dark
Md. Kamrul Hussain
Gough Lui
Gerrit Polder
Axel Theilmann
Eric Williams
Congratulations to those chosen; to those who haven't been selected, I urge you apply for our other RoadTests in the future.
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saurocksall over 12 years ago

Hope I get selected for this road test, I always wanted a oscilloscope.....
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doctorcdf over 12 years ago in reply to michaelwylie

Michael -

It really depends on whether or not Premier Farnell has a relationship with the supplier in question; having said that, there has been talk about getting more equipment of the kind that you describe, so stay tuned.

Best Regards, Christian
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michaelwylie over 12 years ago in reply to doctorcdf

That's fantastic. I've been reading through a lot of the older road test reviews and I have a question. Are there going to be any road tests on some soldering stations? I'd like to know about some of the not-so-well known names in soldering. Everyone knows MetCal and Weller are great, but what about that name you've never heard of.... how good is that station? I've always hesitated purchasing those unknown names when it comes to soldering irons/stations.
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doctorcdf over 12 years ago

I'm pleased to say that Pico have been so impressed by the responses to this RoadTest that they have granted us an additional 3 oscilloscopes!
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tekmeister over 12 years ago

It is really the bundled software that makes or breaks a USB-based scope. It will be interesting to see how this model fares. The screenshots of the software actually look quite nice.
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Robert Peter Oakes over 12 years ago

Nicely said mark, I have not had the benefit of using one before but have written software to interface to more traditional scopes (With Displays) in order to provide similar functionality, this was as a hobby though, it will be interesting to see how a commercial built package performs, cant wait to see the reviews either.. Good luck
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Instructorman over 12 years ago

We used a PICO scope 4000 series in a custom data acquisition project a couple of years ago. The PICO scope integrated very nicely with custom Matlab analysis software we developed for the project. I have no experience with the 2000 series, but overall I was impressed with the PICO scope 4000 series.

Best of luck to the Road Testers on this competition and I look forward to the reviews.

Mark
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