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Pocket Oscilloscopes, experiences?

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A friend of mine just bought a "pocket" Oscilloscope, a DSO nano to be exact. It's self contained, onboard LCD that rivals my cell phone's, 1Mhz bandwidth, stores waveforms, and is only single channel. Perhaps I am suffering from gadget lust here, but it looks amazing, and I feel I must have one. However, I've never used any o-scope on that scale. To anyone who has, what can I expect?  I like the portability, the functions, and defilitely the price. And I am aware that I can only measure signals of up to 100khz with a 1Mhz bandwidth, but I rarely need to exceed that frequency.


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    Hi Cabe,

     

    Man, when do you work?! It seems like everytime I check Element-14 you've put up like 10 new posts. Anyway I haven't had any experience with those types of oscilloscopes, but I think it looks pretty cool. You can actually get one off of sparkfun for $100 I think.

     

    One thing to mention an Oscilloscope with 10Mhz bandwidth can measure frequecies greater than 100kHz accurately. I think you meant to say that with 1MHz bandwidth you can measure up to 100kHz, right?

     

    I say if it suits your needs go for it, it will definitely be a neat gadget, if you already have a good oscilloscope I don't see a reason to buy it.

     

    Best Regards,

     

    Jorge Garcia

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    Jorge,

     

    Thanks for finding that error. I did indeed mean 1Mhz, not 10Mhz.

     

    My friend bought that O-Scope from Sparkfun. I can't wait to try it out. I will post some impressions of it after some tests.

     

     

    And, by the way, I work all the time, and try to squeeze in as many posts as I can during breaks. What can I say, my quest for knowledge is insatiable.

     

    Cabe

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