$300 Digital Oscilloscope

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I can’t vouch for this oscilloscope because I have not tried it, but at $300, I’m impressed by its feature set. When I was an engineer in the 1980s an oscilloscope that could do all this cost thousands of dollars.

These newest instruments achieved the quality, speed and functionality of world leading brands, yet sold for the fraction of the price. ADS series of oscilloscope feature 25 – 300 MHz bandwidth, 2- 4 channels with a 500M – 2GSa/s sample rates as well as a 7 inch color TFT-LCD screen. Models marked with the letter M in the model number offer huge amounts of memory up to 10Mpts. All devices in the series come with USB and some with the additional LAN interfaces, allowing control of the device from the PC, as well easy flash storage support.

32 Automatic measurements functions don’t just make these devices smart but also functional. For example, these oscilloscopes can detect the peak and average values of a waveform and store as much as 5000 waveform points on each channel. Besides peak and average the list of automatic measurement functions includes: Vpp, Vmax, Vmin, Vamp, Vtop, Vbase, Cmean, Mean, Vrms, Crms, ROVShoot, FOVShoot, RPREShoot, FPREShoot, Freq, Period, Rise time, Fall Time, +Width, -Width, +Duty, – Duty, BWid, Phase, FRR, FRF, FFR, FFF, LRR, LRF, LFR and LFF.

These smart oscilloscopes could be utilized for electronic circuit debugging, design and manufacturing, maintenance and testing, circuit testing, education and training. More information can be found at www.tmatlantic.com

26 thoughts on “$300 Digital Oscilloscope

  1. Darren Landrum says:

    For the money, the Instek GDS-1062A still seems the best buy, and is probably the one I’ll go for in about a month when I can afford it.

    http://www.tequipment.net/InstekGDS-1062A.html

    Although I do have to admit the screens on these ADK ones look pretty nice.

  2. Darren Landrum says:

    For the money, the Instek GDS-1062A still seems the best buy, and is probably the one I’ll go for in about a month when I can afford it.

    http://www.tequipment.net/InstekGDS-1062A.html

    Although I do have to admit the screens on these ADK ones look pretty nice.

  3. Darren Landrum says:

    For the money, the Instek GDS-1062A still seems the best buy, and is probably the one I’ll go for in about a month when I can afford it.

    http://www.tequipment.net/InstekGDS-1062A.html

    Although I do have to admit the screens on these ADK ones look pretty nice.

  4. Darren Landrum says:

    For the money, the Instek GDS-1062A still seems the best buy, and is probably the one I’ll go for in about a month when I can afford it.

    http://www.tequipment.net/InstekGDS-1062A.html

    Although I do have to admit the screens on these ADK ones look pretty nice.

  5. Darren Landrum says:

    For the money, the Instek GDS-1062A still seems the best buy, and is probably the one I’ll go for in about a month when I can afford it.

    http://www.tequipment.net/InstekGDS-1062A.html

    Although I do have to admit the screens on these ADK ones look pretty nice.

  6. Darren Landrum says:

    For the money, the Instek GDS-1062A still seems the best buy, and is probably the one I’ll go for in about a month when I can afford it.

    http://www.tequipment.net/InstekGDS-1062A.html

    Although I do have to admit the screens on these ADK ones look pretty nice.

  7. David Smolkin says:

    Man, I’d really enjoying hearing some reviews of cheap oscilloscopes. I keep an eye out on craigslist, but they’re few and far between.

  8. Alexander Taradov says:

    Given that this is Russian re-branding of some Chinese DSO, I’d say it is possible to fins it even cheaper.

  9. Matt Jessee says:

    I have the Rigol DS1052e http://www.rigolna.com/products/digital-oscilloscopes/ds1000e/ds1052e/ and love it.  It’s great for my hobby use.  Pretty cheap and well liked by a large number of people.

  10. Bob Darlington says:

    I just bought this one: https://www.tmatlantic.com/e-store/index.php?ELEMENT_ID=8725
    At some point I’ll do a comparison with other DSO’s I have around the shop and a writeup.  It’ll be interesting to see how accurate it is.

    1. Anonymous says:

      Bob, we would LOVE to see such a comparison. Please send it to us if you do.

  11. Bob Darlington says:

    I just bought this one: https://www.tmatlantic.com/e-store/index.php?ELEMENT_ID=8725
    At some point I’ll do a comparison with other DSO’s I have around the shop and a writeup.  It’ll be interesting to see how accurate it is.

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