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Mini scope recommendations

colporteur

Can you provide a recommendation and/or share your experience with mini oscilloscopes?

 

I am looking to purchase a scope for bench testing. My budget is $500 Canadian. I just reviewed an ad for Mini DS213. The price to features ratio seemed reasonable. I did some reading a while back on the Bitscope Micro for the Pi. I dabble in the Pi's so that had some appeal.

 

I hoping to top the experience and insight from the group could better improve my purchase focus. Any suggestions?

 

Sean

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  • I have an older version (DS203) of the scope you found. I like it a lot for portable use and I also use it when making videos of circuits in action because it is small enough to fit in a video which is zoomed in on a small circuit. Here is an example where I am using it as a signal generator as well as an oscilloscope to demonstrate a meter:

    Keysight Technologies U1282A Digital Multimeter - Waveform Measurements

    It is a bit washed out only because I have some very bright video lights shining on the area.

    I have some USB scopes as well, but I never use them because they are cumbersome to connect and boot up and I have bench scopes which I find much more convenient.

    You need to examine the specs to see which scope will be adequate for your needs. One feature I look for in a low cost scope is lots of memory. They may not have fancy triggering schemes so you may need to capture everything and look through it to find the area of interest.

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  • I have an older version (DS203) of the scope you found. I like it a lot for portable use and I also use it when making videos of circuits in action because it is small enough to fit in a video which is zoomed in on a small circuit. Here is an example where I am using it as a signal generator as well as an oscilloscope to demonstrate a meter:

    Keysight Technologies U1282A Digital Multimeter - Waveform Measurements

    It is a bit washed out only because I have some very bright video lights shining on the area.

    I have some USB scopes as well, but I never use them because they are cumbersome to connect and boot up and I have bench scopes which I find much more convenient.

    You need to examine the specs to see which scope will be adequate for your needs. One feature I look for in a low cost scope is lots of memory. They may not have fancy triggering schemes so you may need to capture everything and look through it to find the area of interest.

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