I have a Hantek DS5702P bench oscilloscope and a Vici VC8145 bench multimeter, both of which I am happy with. I also have a 30+ year old Fluke 75 multimeter.
I'm looking for suggestions and recommendations for a portable oscilloscope combined with multimeter to complement what I have, not to replace any of them.
Any specific requirements? For the scope, sampling rate, memory depth, max frequency, number of channels? Same for the multimeter part, which functions?
I will not be able to advise, but I think it will be relevant for the advise that you will get
Good questions, I left it deliberately vague to see what came up.
Hobby use up to 500V or 1000V, no more than that needed.
I would expect a multimeter to measure voltage, current and resistance. Anything else such as capacitance and inductance would be nice extras but I don't need them. Current to 10A minimum.
I would expect a portable oscilloscope to be 2 channel unless it was something amazingly fancy and expensive, which I don't need. No opinion on other factors.
To put it another way, I don't come up against the limits of the instruments I have so I am not looking for something with a higher specification, and in an case, for portable use I consider some limitations to be expected, the obvious one being a small display.
I don't suppose you can buy a 'scope without it these days but I found the ability to capture a picture on a PC to be invaluable, principally because I was 1200 miles away from the hardware and had numerous traces sent to me by someone who was next to it.
What about a logic analyzer ? I prefer one with the decoding of the signals on a PC.
Does "portable" mean you have a laptop with you ? then a USB-scope can be useful.
I'm getting visions of 30 year old worn out test leads with scraped off layers of metal. Tell me I'm wrong.
Perhaps hand-held is a better word. I don't want something that needs a PC or similar in order to work. Something similar to the Hantek device I linked to in the OP.
A lot of the small scopes have very limited screen resolution .
I’ve an old Fluke 105B multimeter /scope which does all sorts of things, but is hard to use and doesn’t have a great display .
If I bought a scope I’d want to see it in action first .
