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Products => Test Equipment => Topic started by: astrocyte on March 29, 2021, 07:47:15 am
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Hi Dave and everyone! First and foremost - thank you for the inspiring content and the effort you put in your videos! I'm considering oscilloscopes in the <£500 range and I came across the Tenma 72-14530 UK. I was unable to find any elaborate reviews of this scope, but just looking at the datasheet and user manual, it looks promising. The menus are laid out professionally with plenty of screen estate for the waveform, the protocol decoder looks very decent (though I'd mostly use a logic analyser for this, I do appreciate this feature on the scope). The measurement menu also seems to have received the necessary attention from its creators, just like the statistics display below the waveform. 70Mhz is plenty for what I need, so I don't worry too much about the sample rate either. I'm more about the 4 channels and math and statistics.
Previously, I've used a Rigol DS1054Z and I think the statistics display was worth all the money. Now I have a Hantek DSO5102P, and, well... yeah. I'm considering the Tenma scope, going back to the Rigol DS1054Z or a Siglent SDS1104X-E (I'm mostly in favour of this, because of the MSO and bode plot). I wouldn't want to request another video review for an entry-level scope, but I'd appreciate your thoughts on this, if anyone has experience using it.
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Never buy Tenma, they don't make anything, just rebadges from somewhere else and add to the price. That model is most likely an Owon scope, can't figure out right now which model it is exactly. Most likely you will find cheaper by the original name.
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Indeed, many thanks!
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Tenma rebadges a lot of Uni-T products.
This one is probably the UNi-T UPO2074CS
https://www.reichelt.com/de/en/digital-oscilloscope-70-mhz-4-channels-ultra-phosphor-upo-2074cs-p239599.html?r=1 (https://www.reichelt.com/de/en/digital-oscilloscope-70-mhz-4-channels-ultra-phosphor-upo-2074cs-p239599.html?r=1)