Pocket oscilloscope or the Large One?

[Nasa Nate]

Should i consider buyingg a pocket oscilloscope, are they worth it? Vs the cost/ readout experience of a metal larger one. Say for teaching purposes for someone just starting out at electronics Thanks<<((8 8))>>

[blackchisel97]

Should i consider buyingg a pocket oscilloscope, are they worth it? Vs the cost/ readout experience of a metal larger one. Say for teaching purposes for someone just starting out at electronics Thanks<<((8 8))>>

Pocket scopes are handy and becoming more affordable. My first one was Russian 2 ch monster which could easily keep my room warm in winter due to large number of vacuum tubes. I like traditional screen and somehow can't get use to lcd display. I guess it it depends what you'll be more comfortable with. You may look at some youtube videos where people use both and see for yourself which readout you'd prefer.
Just my 2 cents.

Vtech

[wrtner]

Pocket scopes are handy and becoming more affordable. My first one was Russian 2 ch monster which could easily keep my room warm in winter due to large number of vacuum tubes. I like traditional screen and somehow can't get use to lcd display. I guess it it depends what you'll be more comfortable with. You may look at some youtube videos where people use both and see for yourself which readout you'd prefer.
Just my 2 cents.

Vtech

If your frequency response is fairly small, you could
start off with a free public domain software programme
that works off your sound card, like Winscope.

Winscope

What are you measuring?

[ewizard]

Pocket scopes are neat but not very versatile and unless you go for the much more expensive ones they generally don't even go over 1 MHz so if I had to have only one scope I'd get one of the desktop types and depending on budget I'd get the one with the highest frequency I could afford. It is generally the frequency they can read that determines the price. 20 Mhz are cheap used and can easily be found under $100 of ebay. I would try to get one at least 60 to 100 Mhz or higher if possible.

[jake]

DSO nano

It's 1 chanel, not really even 1MHz, but for things like joule theifs, pulsed motors(low voltage), learning about 555 timers, it works well. I have the old one with the sticky buttons but for 50 bucks it was worth it.

If your going to be working over 800kHz stay away from the nano 1.
Jake

[Nasa Nate]

wow thanks, im learning so much already~

[Madnate]

DSO Quad

The DSO Quad is much nicer then the DSO Nano. Its also more expensive.

I'm not sure if its still in its beta stages or not but it might be worth looking into.

DSO Quad - 4 Channel Digital Storage Oscilloscope [TES101D2P] - $199.00 : Seeed Studio Bazaar, Boost ideas, extend the reach