Hi all,
I'm sure this question has been asked before, but my feeble mind can't really find it. I bought a Hantek 6022BL a while ago in an effort to learn how to use oscilloscopes, and maybe even do useful things with it. But either I bought the wrong device, or I'm not seeing, well, any, functionality. Trying all of the other software packages (OpenHantek, Sigrok, etc), yields the same result. I have more or less no trigger options, zooming horizontally and vertically is next to impossible, and general functionality that seems essential for any oscilloscope seems to be absent.
Now, I know this is a *very* basic scope, and I am painfully aware that this thing is all I could afford at $70 (disability due to a back injury really hurts your wallet, too, who would've known), but it seems like it's a bit *too* basic. I can deal with the thing not actually being a mixed scope, and I can deal with the thing not actually storing firmware, and I can even deal with the garbage drivers. That's all fine. But it seems like there is a ton of things that are just... missing. I honestly thought you could do a fair bit in software, so the simplicity of this scope was not seen as a hindrance, as the computer could pick up the hardware slack, but it seems I was wrong.
As for what I want the scope for, honestly, I'm brand new to electronics - I'm green as grass. And I have used a real oscilloscope (couple of Rigols at Hackerspace) for a grand total of about 20 minutes in my entire life, and I felt like I got more done than hours of tinkering with this thing. I'm honestly starting to grow tired of it. I bought this thing as a "my first oscilloscope when I am dead flat broke" and it almost seems like I got stiffed on it. The only thing I have learned how to do, is deal with driver issues, and trigger off the built in 1KHz 2Vpp square wave signal gen used for calibration. I've never been able to get the logic analyzer side of it working, either in the Hantek software, or the Saleae software, so half of this unit's already bare functionality is still a complete mystery to me, I have no idea how any of it works.
I know this seems like a bit of a mindless rant, but that's all I've been able to even figure out how to ask! So, what can I do with this thing, and what can I learn? This question applies to electronics in general. I want to get into the field, but it's like software - it's so damn massive, expansive, and has so much to do, that I don't know where to start, and it seems like each time I ask this question, I get a different answer.
Thanks in advance,
Rory