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Some have proposed that itвЂ™s a intentional вЂњoversightвЂќ by Rigol, but I havenвЂ™t followed the situation that closely.

Both scopes can be turned into DS1104ZвЂ™s quickly and easily, but I donвЂ™t think itвЂ™s exactly legal. I have a DS1074Z (DS1054Z wasnвЂ™t out yet), and enjoy it. At the point you are willing to lay down the cash for the PicoScope you are quickly getting into the Rigol price range. IвЂ™ve had too many bad experiences with these cheap oscilloscopes in the hands of inexperienced users to make a suggestion for any of them without making protection circuits. That written, you can get the PicoScope that can greatly exceed those limits and the trick is the way they manage the interface and the cost of doing it shows in the price of the unit. So maybe with some simple compression and messing around one can wiggle an 8MHz 12bit DSO out of an USB2 port and we are making some very real assumptions about what your computer can actually handle. In reality without some messing around thatвЂ™s not a whole lot when you consider the information above. So maybe at 12 bits per sample you could max shove 40Msps down an USB2 interface. Any more vertical resolution and your maximum horizontal sampling rate pays for it.

So unless you are running burst measurements in which the data stays in the external device till it fills, that is a hypothetical limit of 60Msps with just 256 vertical steps (256 potential voltages readings vertically in 1 byte and let us cheat and assume we deliver the digitized signal AC coupled with a DC offset value such that DC offset at the analog input does not play havoc).

#Sainsmart oscilloscope dds120 software Pc

So assuming you want to free run this oscilloscope you have 60MBps (480Mbps) max into the PC without some compression. Now letвЂ™s add to the mix that weвЂ™ve put USB in there and assume you want the minimum of USB2. So basically if youвЂ™ve got a 10Msps ADC you can probably capture barely viable information on up to 5MHz and really probably will find the best use down below 1MHz. Anywhere approaching Nyquist rate and such advertisements are generally baseless with some exceptions that you are not likely to find in cheap hardware. Watch for dirty things with cheap DSO like listing the sampling rate of the ADC advertised as the maximum useful frequency the DSO can be used on. The result being spurious readings or poor capture of incidents that might be important to the viewer. The other risk is that there are limits in the digital sampling performance and transfer capability.

Depending on what you are measuring this could actually result in damage to something. I agree with Marshall the Rigol DSO are nice and great for the price but the price for the other units mentioned in the OP are just too low.ДЄ serious risk that is taken with such low prices is compromises in the analog front end that increase the likelihood of incorrect readings and coupling into the circuit under test. Good hobby scope.If you dive into oscilloscopes deep enough you will quickly realize you get what you pay for. Overall, I think the product will ultimately do what I need it to do.

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(it is USB102 on my machine, probably USBnnn).ДҐ - Win 7 required a reboot, Win 8.1 seemed to just work.Д¦ - Software does not 'install' it just runs.Д§ - The interface looks very well done, some of its behaviors is a bit weird like why do the channel 1 and 2 'squares' blink?ДЁ - Appears to have an audio signal detector have not found out how to manage it.

#Sainsmart oscilloscope dds120 software driver

The hole in the hub for the test signal is not positioned well.Д¤ - Tell us what the name of the driver will be in the device manager when everything is installed right. Version 1.2 works fine and does not have the flaw.Дў - Put an LED on the box so you now it is powered up and change its color when it is connected to the software.ДЈ - Print is so small I had to get a magnifier to read channel 1 vs channel 3. Fix it!ДЄ few hours work and I wouldn't have anything to talk about.ДЎ - Software v 1.3 shiped with my unit and it has some flaws, for example the time and channel knobs are too big for the screen allocated for it making the use of the knob weird. Spent a couple of hours trying to get a login for the forum, decided you guys don't want it to work.