There aren’t many people who could do an hour-long video reviewing an oscilloscope, but [Kerry Wong] is definitely one of them. This time, he’s looking at a UNI-T MSO2304X 300 MHz scope. The review might be a little long, but the scope — like many modern scopes — has a lot of features for measuring power, accommodating digital signals with an add-on pod, and protocol decoding.
The scope has a touchscreen and four normal inputs, plus two frequency generator outputs. You can also use a mouse or an external display. But, of course, what you really want to know is how the scope performs when reading signals.
Thanks to its 5 GSa/s sampling rate, this 300 MHz scope was still able to handle much higher frequencies. Of course, the amplitude isn’t meaningful as you go over the limit, but sometimes, you just want to see the shape of the signal.
[Kerry] has promised a teardown video for this scope soon, and we’ll be watching for it. He sure knows his way around a scope. The scope reminded us a bit of our Rigol DHO924S, and we wondered how its trigger modes compare with this scope.
” There aren’t many people who could do an hour-long video reviewing an oscilloscope ”
Dave from EEVblog could easily beat that time.
Well, I didn’t say no one else ;-)
Well you’ve got to maximize the amount of ad time haven’t you.
And no I didn’t watch the video before commenting – zero ad time for me.
yt dlp is your friend, no need to suffer through any ads, at all. Not that I watch any either, brave and opera help too.
Only $2199
$2200 – ouch! but if you need the extra features and BW, you gotta pay.
I recently bought a $400 Siglent SDS804X 70MHz 2 Gsps scope and bumped the BW up to 200 MHz (and memory depth to 100Mpts). It does all sorts of math that I’m not really sure I’ll be making use of, but we’ll see what sort of stuff I get into in the future. Back when I started engineering in the 80s, a scope that could do 1/4 of what this one does weighed 80lbs, came on a cart, and cost 2 year’s pay.
“And ya tell the kids these days, and they just don’t believe you”
I used to love watching Kerry’s video’s, until the 2nd/3rd time he gave some FNRSI crap a passing grade. The guy seems wedded to the free stuff he gets, and never wants to call stuff that is actually crap/marketing lies what it is.
His viewers, especially novices, are expecting an honest appraisal.
$100-200 on crap isn’t going to kill many, however it sure will hurt us newbies when we actually get to the level where we need the specs to match what we were sold.