Anyone familiar with the Hantek 1008?

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I Have been searching for an affordable usb scope for a few months and ran across the Hantek 1008. Anyone familiar with it or ever used one? I am wondering if it would possibly be a ok-decent low cost bench scope. I may occasionally use it on a car audio system that’s already installed, but that would be the exception to removing it from the workbench. I’ve had a Rigol 1054Z but sold it. I didn’t like having to take it off the bench and store it when not in use. I am curious if the 8 channels is a gimmick or legit. Or is it more of an overpriced logic level analyzer?

thanks for the input and any suggestions or ideas.
Kevin

michaelkellett · Answer

Hantek do make USB oscilloscopes, the 1008 is not one of them. Sometimes Hantek call it a DAQ and sometimes they do describe it as an oscilloscope.

It has a very low acquisition rate (2.4MS/s), almost no memory (4k points) and only 100kHz bandwidth. (All those stated as "single channel", so likely to be worse by a factor of the number of channels in use.)

It is not a logic analyser (far too slow).

The Rigol 1054Z is a real (if entry level) digital scope.

This is even cheaper, https://www.amazon.co.uk/HANTEK-Portable-Based-Digital-Oscilloscope/dp/B00EEX1W5G/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=hantek+os…

but it is a scope in the conventional sense - it's about £60 so it will be very limited.

You could get a Pico 2204A for £118, much better quality product and with known decent software.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Technology-PicoScope-2204A-Oscilloscope-channels/dp/B00GZMRZ3M/ref=bmx_4/258-4273423-6510169?_e…

The Pico has a lower bandwidth (10MHz) than the Hantek 2 channel scope but a faster sampling rate, which will mean that in practice it is actually usable over the stated bandwidth. the software is the same as for the 6424E which I am currently road testing on E14 (but of course the hardware being very different it can't do all the same stuff.)

MK

Anyone familiar with the Hantek 1008?

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