VELLEMAN PCS500AU PC-SCOPE 50MHz WITH ADAPTER - 110V Review
PC-SCOPE 50MHz WITH ADAPTER. The PCS500 is a digital storage oscilloscope that uses a computer and its monitor to display waveforms. All standard oscilloscope functions are available through the supplied Windows program. Its operation is identical to that of normal oscilloscope apart from the fact that all operations can be performed with the mouse. Connection is through the computer's parallel port and the scope is completely optically isolated from the computer port. The oscilloscope and transient recorder have two completely separated channels with a sampling frequency up to 1GHz. Any waveform displayed on the screen can be stored for later use in documents or for the comparison of waveforms. Connection is through the computer's parallel port, the scope is completely optically isolated from the computer port. THIS UNIT IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH LAPTOPS. It requires Windows 95,98, ME, 2000 or XP, a free printer port, CD Rom player and an SVGA card. It ships with an AC power adapter, x1/x10 scope probe, software on CD and parallel cable.
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VELLEMAN PCS500AU PC-SCOPE 50MHz WITH ADAPTER - 110V Feature
- 50MHz 2 CHANNEL
- OSCILLOSCOPE:
- timebase: 20ns to 100ms per division trigger source: CH1, CH2, EXT or free run trigger edge: rising or falling
- trigger level: adjustable in steps of 1/2 division step interpolation: linear or smoothed markers for: voltage and frequency input sensitivity: 5mV to 15V / division with auto setup-function
- pre-trigger function true RMS read-out (only AC component) recording length: 4096 samples / channel sampling frequency: real-time: 1.25kHz to 50MHz repetitive: 1GHz
- TRANSIENT RECORDER:
- time scale: 20ms/div to 2000s/div max record time: 9.4hour/screen automatic storage of data
- automatic recording for more than 1 year markers for time and amplitude zoom function max. number of samples: 100/s
- min. number of samples: 1 sample / 20s recording and display of screens data format: ASCII
- SPECTRUM ANALYZER:
- frequency range: 0...1.2kHz to 25MHz linear or logarithmic time scale operating principle: FFT (Fast Fourier Transform)
- FFT resolution: 2048 lines FFT input channel: CH1 or CH2 zoom function markers for amplitude and frequency
- THIS INCREDIBLE PRICE IS A MANUFACTURERS CLOSEOUT.
- ALL SALES FINAL (except for warranty issues)
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Costumer review
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
It works great
By Lloyd S. Cheairs
I am a professional engineer of more than 40 years. I have used more types oscilloscope than I can remember. Of course there are much better scopes on the market and they cost a LOT more. This is a nice scope for occasional uses as part of your hobby efforts around your workshop. I really like its ease of use. I use it with a Windows XP PC that has a parallel port and had no problems setting it up and getting it to work. There is a newer version with a USB interface, with a little higher cost.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
There are NO 64-bit drivers for this
By Drew
I bought this scope with a Rosewill Parallel Port PCI card (RC-303) to use on a Windows 7 64-bit machine. I found out that the drivers that come with the PCLAB2000SE software (available on the disc or on Velleman's website) only work with 32-bit versions of windows. I do not have a copy of 32-bit Windows 7 for testing, but I tried installing 32-bit Windows XP in two different virtual machines (Oracle Virtual Box and VMWare Player), but neither were able to pass the parallel port through to the software. Virtual Box doesn't support parallel port passthrough at all, except it's sometimes possible to get it to work when using a Linux host (I don't know if anyone has gotten it to work with a Windows host), and VMWare Player DOES support parallel port passthrough, but no matter what I did, the PCLAB2000SE could not detect the PCS500AU as connected to the port (I tried all the default parallel port addresses, as well as the actual installed addresses on the host, and the virtualized parallel port address).
I finally had to install XP on a separate hard drive and boot into it. Doing this, the scope works fine. Some notes about the software...the window is not resizable. That is, you can drag the window border to make it larger, but the size of the trace window stays fixed. The sample rate also varies with the time scale used on the display (not sure if all scopes are like this...this is the first one I've owned).
It came with two probes, and a big reason I bought it is because it's a 2-channel scope. I plan on installing the parallel port card in a headless machine with an older motherboard connected to my wireless LAN, and using that with the scope. That way, I don't have to dual boot from Windows 7 (I'll just remote into the XP machine), and I can place this machine and the scope nearer to my workbench (on the other side of the room). I'll still have to go to the desktop to use it, but at least I won't have to bring whatever I'm testing over to my undersized computer desk.
I've played around with the transient recorded and the spectrum analyzer a bit, but not enough to leave a proper review of it.
All in all, it's a fine scope for the price, IF you've got a 32-bit version of Windows and a parallel port (or the ability to install a card for one). Note that this will almost certainly NOT work with a parallel port to USB cable, as those are made for printers and will not properly pass through the low level commands required for this scope.
If you're adventurous, a little searching will turn up some brave souls who have managed to write some basic Linux software for this scope. I haven't had time to try it out myself, but it might be interesting to see what they can come up with. If you're going to be doing any serious work, and you want a digitizer to hook up to your computer, spend a little more money and buy one with a USB connection and updated software/drivers.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
I like it!
By Mark Horn
My requirement was very simple, I need to verify the presence of a signal for a low cost. That is what I got. I took a gamble because they stated it would not work with a laptop, but I have an older Dell with a parallel port and it works just fine.
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