Interesting tiny scope

[WB4JFI]

Mike:
I think the $200 one is more than 1MHz, but you might still consider it a
toy....

If you look at the initial specs, it says two 36MHz analog channels, and two
digital channels.

You are paying a premium for the size, it's about the size of an iPhone, and
includes a rechargeable battery, and some probes (although 1x).

No contest that the Rigol is a better scope, but if you need a very small
form-factor, this new one could be worth pursuing.  Incidentally, they are
offering Beta units for preordering for $159.

The 1MHz sampling scopes are around $75, also the size of an iPhone.  Again,
a toy, but useful in certain circumstances.
Terry




-----Original Message-----
From: tacos-bounces+wb4jfi=amrad.org at rf.org
[mailto:tacos-bounces+wb4jfi=amrad.org at rf.org] On Behalf Of Mike O'Dell
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 12:30 AM
To: Mark Whittington
Cc: tacos at amrad.org; wb4jfi
Subject: Re: Interesting tiny scope

$200 for a 1MHz toy?

the Rigol 50MHz dual-trace color scope can be had
for the low $300s to $400 if you look around a bit.
it samples at 1GHz and has a million point buffer

it can be hacked, too, because the 100MHz version and the
50MHz version differ only in price and 1 bit of config data
in the eprom.

BTW - Rigol builds the low-end scopes for Agilent.

	-mo


On 1/21/11 6:38 PM, Mark Whittington wrote:
> I think you're talking about the DSO Nano.  AFAIK, it was developed by
> Seeed Studio (http://www.seeedstudio.com) and they are in fact
> developing a faster version that will sell for $199.
>
> A review of the 1st gen 1MHz DSO Nano here:
> http://hackaday.com/2009/10/19/dso-nano-oscilloscope-reviewed/
>
> <http://hackaday.com/2009/10/19/dso-nano-oscilloscope-reviewed/>-Mark
>
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 3:39 PM, wb4jfi <wb4jfi at knology.net
> <mailto:wb4jfi at knology.net>> wrote:
>
>     Incidentally, there are several ebay sellers in China that sell a
>     small, ultra-portable scope, about the size of an iPhone.  It has an
>     internal battery, and samples at 1 or 2MHz.  The main disadvantage
>     is that it has only one analog channel.  The costs are about $75
>     (including shipping).  One vendor says they have on the way a much
>     better version, dual-channel, 16+Mhz sampling, etc.  But it will
>     cost closer to $300.  If you are interested, ebay search for ARM DSO.
>     Terry
>
>
>
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