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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,

    I have used a number of pocket scopes and USB scopes and the one I like the best (by far) is a DS203, sometimes called DSO Quad.

    It easily fits in a pocket and is extremely handy in many unexpected ways - like fitting in the video below without blocking the main subject matter. And having a battery-operated signal generator (completely isolated) can be very useful if such functionality is needed.

    It has 2 analog channels (72Ms/s) and 2 digital channels plus a signal generator - and is based on an ARM Cortex M3.

    It is fairly full featured with all the standard functionality and lots of other features - the only real warning that should be mentioned is that the user interface is not the usual scope knob layout, so count on a bit of a learning curve to become proficient at selecting settings.

    You can see it in use in some of my videos - like this one:

    Smarter Life Challenge - The Henrietta Project - Light Sensor

    Doug

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    Hi Cabe,

    I have used a number of pocket scopes and USB scopes and the one I like the best (by far) is a DS203, sometimes called DSO Quad.

    It easily fits in a pocket and is extremely handy in many unexpected ways - like fitting in the video below without blocking the main subject matter. And having a battery-operated signal generator (completely isolated) can be very useful if such functionality is needed.

    It has 2 analog channels (72Ms/s) and 2 digital channels plus a signal generator - and is based on an ARM Cortex M3.

    It is fairly full featured with all the standard functionality and lots of other features - the only real warning that should be mentioned is that the user interface is not the usual scope knob layout, so count on a bit of a learning curve to become proficient at selecting settings.

    You can see it in use in some of my videos - like this one:

    Smarter Life Challenge - The Henrietta Project - Light Sensor

    Doug

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