Hantek DSO 5200A PC Based USB Digital Storage Oscilloscope 250MS/s Review
This Compact, Low Cost Product Offers You the Features only Found in High End, Very Expensive Standalone Digital Storage Oscilloscope. It combines the features of a traditional standard Digital Storage Oscilloscope in one compact unit at fraction of the cost.
Price : $305.00
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Hantek DSO 5200A PC Based USB Digital Storage Oscilloscope 250MS/s Feature
- High Performance PC Based Digital Storage Oscilloscope Designed For Use With a Laptop or Desktop
- USB 2.0 port, No Extra Power Cord Needed
- 200MHz bandwidth, 250 MHz real-time sampling
- Waveform on screen can be saved in TXT,JPG/BMP, MS Excel/Word formats
- Saved waveform files can be sent as email attachments
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
PC based o'scope
By another-dave
the hantek (also marketed as rigol etc.) o'scopes are probably the cheapest way to get a storage scope. They are powered by the USB port of the PC. Hantek has updated the software a number of times to fix bugs. The 9 bit vertical resolution is higher than most PC based o'scopes in the same proce range. It comes with 2 x1-x10 probes.
The manual could be better. You can use the mouse to activate controls on a virtual o'scope front panel or click on selections from pull down lists. The trace position is moved up and down on the screen by dragging an arrowhead on the left margin of the virtual scope window up and down with the mouse. The trigger point in the waveform is done with arrowheads in the right margin.
You can average, measure any parameter in the trace and do waveform math. It can even compare a live input to a stored input +/- a percentage and be informed if the tolerance has been exceeded. For the cost, I couldn't find a better deal that would let me freeze a waveform and then move around in the buffer to see what happened before and after an trigger event
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Happy with it so far
By Nrasser
I do driver development for automated test systems and very often have target hardware hooked to my laptop via JTAG or other means, so I wanted a good USB DSO to make everything nice and portable...i.e., able to do dev work at a coffee shop.
I looked at a lot of DSO's before I bought this one. Many of the others had features I liked (the BitScope product is interesting). In the end I really wanted just a scope though, and the Hantek 5200A appeared to be the closest thing to a midline-quality, big-name benchtop scope. It was also one of the most expensive, but after buying it I know I did right. The 9-bit vertical resolution was a big selling point for me and you'll really notice this performance when the scope application is fullscreened. The trigger system works good, all the usual features and no surprises. The pulse triggering feature works fine. My unit also does not display any of the DC shift problems that other reviewers have reported in Hantek products. I haven't pushed it above 25MHz yet but an Agilent arb gen showed a good linear response from 0-25MHz, visually flat. The math trace function supports all the usual modes including difference mode A-B, probably the most useful mode for me. The scope software supports FFT and capture, image save, etc. One complaint with the scope software, the color choice for the channel sensitivity knobs makes it hard to see the pointer. Not a big issue as the gain appears in a digital display nearby. The software is a bit power hungry, but it runs quite well in a WinXP VM on a Macbook Pro. It might get chuggish on pre-Core hardware.
The body of the unit is plastic, bigger than most other DSO's but it's reasonably light and about the same height as a typical laptop when closed. It comes with a "power stealer" type USB cord with two host plugs in case your machine doesn't make enough power on one USB port. There is no option for a separate power source such as a wall plug. I found that I could run it from one plug on the Macbook and an Asus G74SX.
The two provided probes have slide switches for 1x-10x and ship with calibration tools for the 10x capacitor in the BNC end of the probe. The probes cal'ed up fine on the provided cal terminals at the USB end of the unit. The 1x-10x switches feel a bit cheesy, but with care they should last. The probes come with removable "hook" type caps, as typical compared to the name-brand benchtop stuff.
The product ships with automation driver stubs for LabVIEW, Visual C and VB. I've tested out the LabVIEW one and I'm happy with it, plenty of automation options available for about 1/10th the cost of comparable NI,HP,etc big-name gear.
13 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
Could have been
By TBD
This could have been an amazing product. Perfect price point. Great features. However my number one complaint is that after buying it, I can't change the position of the scope traces on the display (computer screen). This might not seem like a big deal except they are so high that for any signal over 1.5 V they end up going off the screen and are not visible. The ability to change the ground position exists but moving them does not change the actual signal position at all. Searching the help sites show a number of people that have this on one of the channels but I have it on both channels. After a year without being able to get any useful help from Hantek I finally decided to open it up. I found 8 solder shorts dozens of parts that had been removed and the pads from the old parts were left behind, parts barely making contact to the pads, etc... it is amazing it works at all. For waveforms less than 1.5 volts it works very well. I just wish I could fix the DC offset on the channels.
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