I am a beginner when it comes to electronics. Is the Hantek 6022BE a good oscilloscope for myself to learn on or should i spend a little more for an analog?
Thanks,
Mark
I've seen some rather mediocre reviews: See reply #12 at Hantek 6022BE 20MHz USB DSO - Page 1
20MHz isn't great - a secondhand 50+MHz scope would be preferable if you can afford the
space. eBay can be very handy at times.
High bandwidth digital is good.
Low bandwidth analog or digital not so good.
20 MHz will be good for many things, not so much for looking at fast SPI signals.
Also look at GW Instek scopes if you can afford a standalone device. This is what I have, its more of a top end model, cab be expanded at a later date with more features too.
http://www.tequipment.net/InstekGDS-2204A.html - with 4 high 250MHz bandwith probes
http://www.saelig.com/PSBE1004/PSBE1004005.htm
2-channel, 200 MHZ and 2-channel 100 MHz are also available at lower costs.
Not Made in China. Made in Taiwan.
The 8 inch, 800x600 screen is really nice.
Can plug a USB stick in the front to save screen shots too.
At $1600+, not really a budget scope tho.
For only digital stuff, this logic analyzer does great
Able to capture & analyze 8 MHz SPI transfers - I used it to confirm blocks of 41 bytes being transferred at 8 MHz (fastest a stock arduino can go) with assembly language calls of commands so a transfer occurred in 17 clocks. Speedy.
But I needed a good scope to figure out why SPI transfers on another card were not working - turned out the buffer chip selected wasn't up to the task. Logic analyzer was showing junk for data, needed a fast scope to see what was happening with signal to find a fix.
What do you think of the a Tektronix 7603 Oscilloscope. the one i am looking at comes with 7A26 and 7B80 modules
That's the kind of scope I used 25 years ago.
Needs a lot of bench space, calibration becomes an issue, no digital storage.
Okay for basic debugging.
Would you recommend it over the Hantek 6022BE?
If i need an additional probe what MHz rating should i get. Will the 100 MHz probe be reliable for any lower frequency?
100 MHz probes will degrades signals less than 20 MHz probes. 250MHz are even better.
Based these reviews
Hantek 6022BE- Will it work for me - Page 1 and links from there to other reviews, I would not recommend the hantek over the Tektronix. If the Tek can do 1-shot captures with the appropriate plug in, even better.
I regret my Hantek 6022BE purchase. The trigger circuit does not work well. I am currently looking at a Rigol oscilloscope.
I bought one a couple of weeks ago.
It depends in what you need and the money you want to spend: for my purposes is enough (I'm currenttly working with "domestic" frecuencies -signals up to 1 khz).
I think is good for teaching and begineers, unless your intention is to work inmediately whit faster things, like buses, oscillators, radio, . . .
kendall:
I regret my Hantek 6022BE purchase. The trigger circuit does not work well. I am currently looking at a Rigol oscilloscope.
Be carreful I read (is this true?) that heart of the Rigol electronics is the same as Hantek and is manufactured by Hantek
USB scope are less convenient than standalone, but they are cheaper.
I have a 6082BE (80 MHz high bandpass) and it give me satisfaction (including trigger) . Okay this is not the optimum (I'm retired from analogic electronic and I never use other scope than Tektronix) but we can do a good job with.
High bandpass of 6022 is too low at my mind. With avr 8bits a scope with 100MHz high bandpass with suitable probes will be the optimum.
With new micro-controler as ARM which run at 80 MHz and above, 1 GHz scope is recommended but his cost is too expensive.
I ordered a Hantek6022BL which has the logic analyzer capability included. I can't get the scope to work. The two sections have independent software and the scope program crashes on startup. The logic analyzer has no trigger that I can find. So for me this device is brain dead. I'm getting a refund and I'm going to find a better device.
I prefer an attached device because it is so much more portable when traveling. I don't find them to be cheaper, but rather more expensive then similar capability conventional scopes. The bench scopes are always a better buy, but I can't squeeze them into my laptop bag.
gnuarm:
I ordered a Hantek6022BL which has the logic analyzer capability included. I can't get the scope to work. The two sections have independent software and the scope program crashes on startup. The logic analyzer has no trigger that I can find. So for me this device is brain dead. I'm getting a refund and I'm going to find a better device.
Same here, a month ago I bought the 6022BL on ebay and was dissapointed when I recieved the unit - that I wasn't able to make it run on my laptop at that time. I was about to scrap this thing but somehow found that the driver on the installation disc that came along with the unit missed out the 6022BE driver. Anyway for those who encountered the same problem: Hantek6022BL is just the same as with 6022BE except for the additional logic analyzer. You need to download the BE driver on hantek website, on their Download center, the 6022BL product download area of the website don't have the BE driver, that you have to search it seperately at their DOWNLOAD CENTER:
( http://www.hantek.com/en/PagesFW_Vfwsc.html ) ... namely as "Hantek6022 Driver", this is the 6022BE driver needed to run on the 6022BE software with your 6022BL unit (6022BL still uses the 6022BE software). So far, mine's working now on my Dell Windows 8.1 OS laptop.
You might try the surplus stores and ebay to find a good older Tektronix Oscilloscope. They supplied the Military for years and that is what they are known for.
The 7603 has been around for more than 40-50 years. We had them when I was in the Military. They make good oscilloscopes that will last a long time. Just stay away from the old 545 models. Those are a good boat anchor these days.
My job in the military was to calibrate and maintain Electronic Test Equipment.
I left in 1979.
Yes i use this one ..just for hobby and is good and work with windows xp/vista/7/8
here you can see a Review for this this Oscilloscope from Hantek for me is best USB Oscilloscope for hobby.