Opinion about the DSO Nano V2

[OBones]

Hello,

Browsing around on the web, I stumbled across this page:

http://www.seeedstudio.com/blog/2010/08/17/dso-nano-v2-official-leak/

On the paper, this looks interesting for me as a hobbyist.
Reading some reviews, I understand that this is not comparable to a more
complete DSO (Rigol DS1502E comes to mind), but could be enough for my
limited usage.

Do you know about this device?
What do you think of it?
Has anyone around here used it?

Regards
OBones

 

[OBones]

That "scope" is portable and writes to SD cards. Basically it is a
different beast than a Tek scope. I didn't see a price listed. Of
course that bandwidth isn't much more than a soundcard.

It's listed at 89$
http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/dso-nano-v2-p-681.html?cPath=104_108

Price is a big reason I'm looking at this, another one is small size and
portability.

 

[JW]

Hello,

Browsing around on the web, I stumbled across this page:

http://www.seeedstudio.com/blog/2010/08/17/dso-nano-v2-official-leak/

On the paper, this looks interesting for me as a hobbyist.
Reading some reviews, I understand that this is not comparable to a more
complete DSO (Rigol DS1502E comes to mind), but could be enough for my
limited usage.

Do you know about this device?
What do you think of it?
Has anyone around here used it?

(SER added)

Lots of limitations: 1 channel, 1MHz analog bandwidth, 1MSa/s.

Cute though. Might be good for finding high ESR caps, especially in hot
circuits because it's (obviously) isolated being battery powered.

 

[OBones]

I fully expect that one of these days there'll be a little plug-in
adapter for iPhones/iPods/iPads to turn them into scopes. I think the
only reason you don't already see that is due to the dock connector only
containing USB (with the iThing as a slave and probably? no easy way for
a "regular" application to tap into that data), a serial port, and
audio/video signals: You end up having to add your own process in the
"interface" box and use the iThing as nothing more than a nice
display/touch screen interface.

Already done for an Android based phone:

http://projectproto.blogspot.com/2010/09/android-bluetooth-oscilloscope.html

 

[ScadaEng]

Do you know about this device?
What do you think of it?
Has anyone around here used it?

Regards
OBones

I just ordered one. It is the 1.6 hardware version. It has the hardware
capability to go to 2MHZ, the firmware is not yet released. It is open
source code with schematic included and supported by their website.Got mine
from ebay. It has a nice probe that is switchable 1X-10X. It also comes with
a usb cable. A lot of the ones I've seen don't have the usb cable. I have
not received it yet, its still in shipment so I can't comment on the
preformance. A video on their web page shows a square wave signal starting
to roll off @ around 150-200KHZ. The 2MHZ firmware I assume will be at least
twice that. Its not great bandwidth, but it will fit my immediate needs.Came
to $73 with shipping. It should work out good for me, I have an immediate
need for slow waveform captures. However I won't be throwing out my 40MHZ
scope anytime soon.