DSO188 matchbox oscilloscope

DSO188 matchbox oscilloscope

(Published on 27/10/2018)

With its dimensions of 57 mm by 34 mm by 11 mm you can call Daniu's DSO188 a matchbox oscilloscope. If you think this device is nothing more than a funny, but useless toy you are wrong. It allows you to observe signals up to 100 kHz. W

Anyone looking for a low cost scope to trouble shoot (a least audio and low frequency such as encoders) parts of their UBitx, these little oscilloscopes were on sale. I bought one. It only has a 1 Mhz bandwidth, but that is better than the 200 Khz bandwidth on many of the other cheap tiny scopes. 

$50.00

So far I've liked it and have use it for observing some pulse width modulate signals where the frequency and duty-cycle readouts were handy. It is totally isolated when running on its battery. That is a nice feature. 

I have another radio with an intermittent causing both the transmit power and receive signal strength to abruptly change. Am planning to make an RF detector probe with a diode and capacitor and just leave this little scope attached to various points in the RF chain to see where I see the signal change in step with the change in my transmit power or S meter on receive (particularly the background noise floor on the S meter). This little scope won't take up a bunch of room while doing these measurements and may provide me with a little more interesting information than a DVM. 

https://www.banggood.com/DSO188-Pocket-Digital-Ultra-small-Oscilloscope-1M-Bandwidth-5M-Sample-Rate-Handheld-Oscilloscope-Kit-p-1315186.html?rmmds=home-mid-relatedViewed&cur_warehouse=CN

Here is a review on a site that specializes in trying out low cost Chinese electronic gizmos. Not sure if my later model is calibrated better than the one he tested, but did not strike me as really bad. 

https://chinese-electronics-products-tested.blogspot.com/p/dso188-matchbox-scope-tested.html

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