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jasonRF:

--- Quote from: BillyO on January 05, 2023, 07:37:15 pm ---
--- Quote from: mtk on January 05, 2023, 07:14:19 pm ---I purchased recently USB oscilloscope Hantek 6074BC – 126 USD, a similar PicoScope 2408B is 1335 USD. 10 times higher price for similar item is really quite a lot.
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I think if you dig you will find the Pico a considerably better scope than the Hantek.  I have the Hantek and it's a decent piece of hardware for the price, but the software leaves a little lot to be desired.  One good thing about the Hantek is that the front end is good to about 250MHz.  If you run just one channel you will get this full BW and the full 1Gs/s sample rate.  Get yourself a 250MHz probe and enjoy that undocumented feature.  :-+

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Interesting.  I have a couple of Picoscopes and love them, but they sure are pricey.  My approach when getting a nice 2-channel model was to buy used so I paid about 25% of retail (on a discontinued model and I did have to wait many months to find the deal...), but good deals on used 4-channel models do not exist. 

I have never really looked at the hantek usb scopes before - the first Hantek device I ever looked at was the DSO2D10 bench scope (stumbled across on Amazon) but the info I found on it online looked so depressing that I wrote-off the brand completely.  However, your USB model looks like a great deal as long as it works as advertised (which the DSO2x1x apparently do not).   On paper the 6074BC is more comparable to the Pico 2407B (4 x 70 MHz), which is 'only' $979 and is out of stock everywhere.  The Hantek has a lot less memory, doesn't seem to have a waveform generator (as far as I can tell from documentation) and the software doesn't have all the bells and whistles or polish, but it is more sensitive (2 mV/div vs 4 mV/div) and of course so much more affordable.

jason
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