I learn by trial and error and I would love to press those soft sexy illuminated buttons. Bitluni can you make a cat litterbox project? Maybe with Wemos and some nema23 motors? Weight sensors and mp3 shield to play sound effects :D The self cleaning part would be helpful
You won the scope! I need your shipping address... Please contact me on google+ (I added you to my contacts) or any other way I see that it is actually you.
I won? I have never won anything this great! What are the odds? Whatever the case, lucky me and thank you so much! I'm speechless and a little bit intimidated. The oscilloscope seems pretty next level.Thank you again I'll contact you asap.
Fantastic review!!! Had me sold in the first 30 seconds. I love that you got right to the point and didn't waste 10 minutes introducing yourself and explaining how and what you are going to do in your video. Other people that waste my time doing that , lose me in 2 seconds. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. :)
Hi unexpected maker, I'm from Brazil and I would like to get a 1204X-E as well. How is it after 2 years? Is it working well? Have you noticed some bug or something like that?
Thanks for the review! It was really helpful and got me to decide what I need versus what I want. Just ordered from Amazon. Can't wait to get it. Appreciate your time putting this video together.
I'm a lone developer working on Assistive Devices for children with special needs. As a lone, self-funded developer such devices are drastically out of my affordability. I am currently completing assembly of a DSO138 but it does not have the specs required. It will help but not in most instances. Thanks for the videos. Very interesting and useful
Great review and awesome addition to your lab! I'm an EE student and I'm currently working on designing and building a multi channel, programmable SMPS-based Lab supply and it would be great to see the transient response and overshoot of the voltage and current limiting with a scope. Btw, good luck to everybody else :)
My oscilloscope is a 1979 one from eBay for 20 bucks. It's capable of 30Mhz and is good enough for most of all applications. But since I'm into digital electronics, there is no way around a digital oscilloscope. It would be an honor to receive such a device :)
Thanks for this product review. As a beginner, I haven’t used one of these before, but I anticipate getting my projects sophisticated enough to benefit from such a tool, eventually. I have much to learn.
Wow, what an excellently concise review. You covered a lot of functionality in just 19 mins! An ideal scope for any electronics maker. It’s quite amazing the power and functionality you get these days, in a scope described as “entry level”. I suspect most owners will only just scratch the surface of it’s full set of capabilities! I think a couple of the stand-out features are the built in serial decoding, and the lower frequency spectrum analyser capability. Other than that, I have 4 channel envy! :-)
I purchased the same scope after watching this video. Picked it up at the Post office today. Looking forward to test it for my hobby projects. Will retire my old Tektronix 465 from ca 1980.
Glad you asked - I want to know: 1. How to set a trigger on some signal transmission? 2. Why I even need the math functions? 3. Why these set of math functions presented in the menue and not something else? 4. Suppose I have a LCD from an old tablet (which I do) with a SPI buss, can the oscilloscope be useful to set up the connection and display a picture? 5. How to measure the noise of a power supply? 6. Can I measure high voltage sources?
Brilliant review! You're always so easy to understand. I'm new to electronics (only just got hold of a proper soldering iron) and have been looking around for a scope. I'm a software engineer but I have caught the IOT maker bug. Started with a simple module that's easy to code for and is drawing me into building my own sensor and actuation circuits! I'd immediately use it for debugging I2C and also helping with a low power radar sensor (need the FFT).
I've been watching your last bundle of uploads like clockwork. Somehow you always upload a video related to what I'm working on! This time is NO EXCEPTION! I'd really love this amazing SDS 1104X-E scope to fine tune my circuits connected to my multiplexed RGB LED matrix. I'm attaching it to a set of FPV goggles, but shhhh for now ;). I promise to send you a Google drive link when it's up and running! ( If I get it up and running that is... Dang LiPo discharge *fist shake*)
I'm working on a spectrum analyser that will display on LEDs columns the frequencies my audio signal has. Currently an electrical engineer student. I can't work from home so this oscilloscope would be great :) in any case, Thank you so much for you videos, it inspired me greatly to do what I do today. Love the humour in your videos :)
thanks for the review - the 100MHz bandwidth, the 4 channels, protocol decoders and additional logic probes would be a great improvement over my Rigol 1052; but I see from the comments that some people need it more than I do
Nice review. Adding my $0.10 ... I'm a firmware engineer and bought one for working at home - partly because I wanted one, also didn't want to lug my employers equipment back and forth during covid. I got this one to be able to add the digital probe later. Out of all my equipment, along with the DMM I probably get the most usage out of a logic analyzer. Being able to set up triggers based on digital patterns is really nice. The bandwidth of the scope fits well with the kind of stuff I work on. I also like being able to put it on the LAN to view the screen on my PC - really convenient to just use clipping tool to paste scope traces into emails. So far, I've been very happy with it. One of my personal tests is how easy something is to figure out without resorting to the manual. It has been excellent that way. The controls seem intuitive (perhaps its from having used many Tek and Keysight scopes, who knows?). I can't really complain about anything. BTW - Siglent makes excellent 'value for money' benchtop DMMs too.
Trying to supply basic equipment to my small "mancave corner" this scope would be definitelly great addition allowing me to do the "one step further". Thanks for the review.
Excellent review, thanks a lot! Definitely I would like to use it for debugging I2C communications. Moreover, this device looks very promising for helping me experimenting around vlf wireless analysis. Greetings from Mexico!
Hey. Thanks for the review. I am an InfoSec engineer and I am interested in the logic analyzer. It can come handy to reverse engineer some embedded hardware devices. Anyhow, thanks for what you do and please continue the good work! Your ESP32 composite output videos are awesome.
Thank you for this well done video. I'm getting one of these for Christmas and I see that beyond the things I would normally use on a scope, I have my work cut out for me in getting to the more refined and complex analyzing that this scope will offer. Thank you - Phil Donovan
Hi, I've been learning electronics for 3 years now and it's a lot of fun! An oscilloscope would allow me to study the behavior of electonic components under AC. I have already bought a cheap signal generator and I'd like to play with it!
This was a great review that covered a ton of scope features and gave a great sense of what they're used for! This looks like a great scope for both digital stuff and low end RF stuff... I'd love to get this for HAM work as I'm starting to get into building my own transceivers and I'll need some way to debug things when they (inevitably) don't work quite right.
As an EECS student this would really come in handy as our school doesn't allow us to check out any oscilloscopes or logic analyzers, and I've been looking at getting my own. Really great looking scope!
I'm currently working on dual microwave 5.8 GHz and laser radar with STM32 uC with CAN interface with UDS and XCP capabilities - debug would go faster with 2ch oscilloscope. Keep up the good work!
Thanks for the review! I'm just an electronics hobbyist to counterbalance my IT related work. I'm interested in the oscilloscope to support retro computing repairs, my microcontroller projects and so on. I really like the possibility to decode the protocols and the logic analyzer.
Amazed by the protocol decoding. When I had a scope, it was a cheap, portable, single channel type without much more than a trigger! Would love to have a scope, especially one as great as this, as I'm currently scraping by without one. Anyways, love your videos, and keep up the great work!
Looks like a great scope and very good value for money with all the decoders etc. built in. I'd like to use it for watching my low power (coin cell) ATtiny projects as they wake from sleep, read some sensors and then go back to sleep. This way I can check the timing and current draw as well as energy used (math integral function) for each wake up event.
As always to the point review and no bias. I am myself work with android and rassberry pi, and specially need this scope for detail analysis of real time clock and timer functions. It will also help me to get the timing of RF signal from rf remotes .
I love my 1104X-E. I use it mostly for audio and was disappointed with the usability of the FFT. Guess I need a considerably more expensive audio analyzer. That was a great overview video. Would like more details on some functions. But your video has inspired me to investigate more. I also do BODE PLOTS with a Siglent waveform generator connected to the 1104X-E. THANK YOU!
Great and thorough review thank you! I need this scope because i don't have one and can't afford to get one, even the cheapest ones. Budget is not easy when you try and go further into electronic projects.
Very detailed review! I would love to have one of these. I'm a software developer and like to tinker with mcus. But without an oscilloscope it is very hard to debug my projects, tons of guesswork :D
Thank you. I have a long interest in electronics; my present area is exploration of signal analysis using FFT. I propose to use an oscilloscope to examine basic signal characteristics of generated waveforms.
Nice review. This oscilloscope would be a great improvement over my DSO150, which was very cheap (price edited because RUclips thinks my post is an advertisement) but only offers single channel and very basic functionality. I would use it mainly for Arduino and other microcontroller projects. By the way, I am really impressed about your ESP32 project to generate composite video signals, looking forward to a VGA version.
I'm a computer science student who has been a hobbyist programmer since I was around 15. recently within the past few years I took a class on electronics and was fascinated. I started getting into Arduino and other microprocessors and such, hacking devices and making my own projects. This has been extremely fun and educational for me but I often run into roadblocks like when determining what speed I can push a microcontroller or what protocol something might be using. It is also very hard and frustrating trying to observe what my code does with higher speed signals and such, it's almost impossible. I've wanted a scope for a while now but I can't afford one being the student I am. If I get this scope I would love to share it with EE students or a local makerspace or the like. I know how frustrating it can be without one so I would love to share this tool and help other budding electronic engineers, hobbyists, or makers move forward on their projects and learn a lot in the process. Thank you.
I'd love to use this on my little channel. It would certainly be an upgrade from my DSO128 kit scope! Serial decoding would be the best feature...for me anyway. Good luck to all who enter!
Nice review! Did you ever do a follow-on review of the optional digital logic analyzer? It's pretty amazing that this "entry-level" scope has the ability to do that.
If you’re still interested all this time later; I’m hopefully gonna be buying one of these in the next week or two, and while I won’t be getting the LA straight away, this is like half the reason for me to buy the thing (maybe a third; the other two thirds being the AWG and the fact that it seems even better bang for buck than the Rigol, thanks to the hardware options.) I will be making extensive use of the serial decode which comes at standard straight away though. This might give me an idea, and I’m happy to pass this on once I’ve had time with it.
This scope is so nice. Best thing I've ever bought (together with a Siglent Arbitrary Waveform Generator). Just the scope features are really nice, but then what really makes it killer are the awesome FFT and the bode-plot functions
I don't think there is any missing functionality, and the "serial" triggers and decoders seems really cool (maybe not the best features, but clearly one of the most interesting for me). I wanted to change my 1980's oscilloscope for a while, so let's try to get it !
Wow! That scope has functions that are light years ahead of the JYE Tech DSO Shell scope I built and the cheap digital logic probe that plugs into the USB port on my computer! I'm no where near experienced enough to say what it's best feature is but for me it would be nice to have it's multiple inputs to capture timed events both digital and analog and see the events on the screen at the same time! It really cleans up the work bench to have so much packed into one device. Circuits I design with the EveryCircuit app and others don't always work the same built on a bread board and it would be nice to monitor multiple points during part value substitutions to view the effects on the circuits. This scope has a huge market in the growing hobby electronics community.
This is an excellent honest review. I would love to have a scope like this. I'm new to electronics and trying to dive in as much as possible. I've been a programmer for many years, but I never got into the electronics side of things until recently. An Oscilloscope would really help me visualize what is happening. My goal is robotics.
This scope would be an upgrade to the one I have. I would use it on my many ham radio and micro-controller projects. You did awesome job on reviewing this scope!
Standard protocol decoder is very impressive to me. I don't get any major Missing in this scope. All & all its price worthy , & offcours you have explained lots of functions in this video.
Thanks for the nice review. One of the features that I think is missing is to be able to save a short video of a dynamic waveform(s). A 5 or 10 second video would be nice that I or colleagues could review later.
A scope would be infinitely useful to allow me to do such things as decoding/reverse engineering 'non-open' communication protocols such as complex infrared, proprietary communication mechanisms, etc to allow bridging to open standards and controls. A scope would be a key tool in helping me learn more and properly understand concepts such as duty cycle, frequency, logic levels and timings. Such things are difficult to fully comprehend without the ability to visualise the electrical behaviour. I have never used or had a scope before, and would love to be the recipient of one to help me with my projects and learning, as well as being able to share with others. The winner, whomever it is, will be very lucky.
Hi again :) I'm watching Your channel almost from the beginning. Because of You I'm using Wemos at daily basics and with every day I'm more and more fascinated with what I can doby my own! I'm thinking about using RF to build data loggers for my bee hives (measure temperature, humidity etc). Besides that oscilloscope is a must have for more advanced projects (for example to build single remote for multiple devices). Best of luck with future projects! P.S. maybe they will be with ESP32 and Bluetooth devices (for example how to pair iTag with ESP32)? :)
I would need especially the logic analyser functions too. I'm at the beginning of building an 8-bit computer, startet with the power supply, clock signal and reset circuit. Next step will be minimal system with a Z80, RAM, EPROM and a LCD Text display for output. A scope containing a logic analyser would come handy when running into some issues with the signals on the buses.
Well informed review! I would love to get this oscilloscope because currently I do not own one. I am a student so I cannot afford to spend that much on a scope. I would use it for a home automation system I am currently developing. This would aid me in being able to turn regular devices into smart devices without major modification.
Thanks for the detailed review! I love your videos and I‘m learning alot from you. I never had an osciloscope and would die for winning this great device!!!
I would really like to see an in-depth review of the FFT resolution (sidebands distinguishability in an AM/FM signal for instance) , since this scope should do FFT with 1Mpts, much more than other pricey scopes. I am a physics Graduate student with a passion for electronics, I have a cheap Analog scope but I would like to get into the digital world.
Thumbs up for the review.. keep those videos coming :) It could become my first scope and could extend my knowledge and speed up the learning curve in electronics...
Nice one!. I have started putting together many more ESP based projects and been inspired by your channel to take this further. I have usually used modules but started experimenting with making custom circuit designs with many more devices and custom circuitry so this scope would be great for debugging the various digital coms and trying out new circuit patterns and theories. I have a old low end siglent scope but it’s two channel and doesn’t have any features over the basics so this scope would get past the limitations I hit with my current one.
Dang, makes me wish I had the cash for one! I just graduated high school and have been slowly getting little bits and pieces of tech from my robotics lab but nothing more complex than a multi-meter. A scope such as this would be a huge boon to what I, and probably my robotics lab as a whole, could make! The logic analyzer seems great for debugging our robots that use a combo of I2C and UART and even CAN sometimes. Especially when noobies forget to send the commands. Thank you for the video!
My current scope is an old 10Mhz 3-tube scope (1x screen, 2x input amplifier), so the Siglent would be a huge improvement. I would use it primarily in microcontroller projects, for bus decoding, signal analysis and power measurements.
Excellent video tutorial ! Really great stuff ! Since I was genetically modified to be an computer/electronics nerd this scope would suit me very well. Why I need it ? Well.... I need to analyse signals coming from an older PMR radio programmer (Philips/Simoco) which uses a special dedicated programming cable. That cable looks like a RS-232 and RJ45 combination and is custom made. So no standards here. The software runs on MS-DOS 6.2 and I would like to create an app. that makes it accesible from Windows. Impossible to do without this equipment. Futher more, as a sign of my respect and gratitude when I get this scope, I'll offer you a basket of the best beers in the world. You already knew we have the best beer in the world... ! Well now you're getting close to actually taste a few of them !
I am a Geodesy and Geoinformatics student from Hnanover. I would love to have this device, because im planning in building my own digital H0 modeltrain, where every decoder is selfbuild. Also my goal is to use Computervision on an Raspberry Pi, to know, where every train is at every moment. The final step would be to implement an Autopilot with more than one train on each track, since autopiloting/selfdriving cars fit well into my studying area. I have had no oszilloscope so far. keep up your great work. Sincerely Tim Schimansky
I'm not very well versed on what makes a good scope. Well, not at all, but the bandwidth is what is recommended in several books if you want to be able to make all kinds of repairs and not be limited by your osci. The sampling rate seems great. It's really difficult to decide on an entry-level oscilloscope since you're going to sink a lot of money either way but you just can't make the judgement call of what features you will and won't need. So there is this osci from a competitor that you surely know about which has a known "unofficial upgrade path" so you'll get quite a capable device, but how would a beginner know for example that the probes are up to the task after "upgrading"? I just wish that one of the most important pieces of equipment wouldn't be either a gamble or a money sink. Anyways, keep up the great work :) Apropos... you have quite a bit of videos that I didn't notice before. There goes my time I guess.
One way to allow touchscreen functionality without the cost of a panel would be to include a bluetooth module like an ESP32 on the scope and an Android/iOS app for both alternative interface, storage and user customisable macros. I think the first scope manufacturer to include this will have a huge advantage.
A Month ago I needed a scope for a project. So I did go to the local makerspace .Havinga a scope for myself would be nice when you have problems you need/want to solve fast.
I think I bought mine about 3 years ago. My descision to buy was The Price (£450 ish) The Channel count. The Decode already enabled...(awesome) and I like Siglant gear, I have a SDS1102CML (bought first) and a SDG805 gen.... very nice gear What funcionality you get for your hard earned money......
That’s a great detailed review! I would use the oscilloscope for my general study in electrical engineering, and also it would be a great help for debugging my IoT projects with the logic analyzer.
Nice scope! Would be well received on my workbench, specially with the serial decoders and fft functionality. My latest project is building a custom RC control with support to multiple wireless protocols... esp32 will be the main brain and a lot of different ic’s on spi, i2c and serial talking to it. Debugging on a scope instead of print statements is always appreciated!
Best feature, advance triggers and protocol decoding. Possibility to attach an external monitor (like a HDMI output) would be nice to have. I would like to have one for various electronic experiments.
I'm building a MIDI controller for my hardware synths. But it is so hard to troubleshoot when you cant see the signals. This scopes serial protocols features should really make my day.
Could you do audio music signal probe vs analog oscilloscope? I doubt digital oscilloscope produce a lot of delay. and I want to see which one is closer to zero lag.
I have quite a few idea! First would be a variable frequency drive for my fan, its too loud and fast for night, and I haven't found any other solution (yet) that would be complicated enough to learn something, but easy enough to try. Plus it can be connected to the internet. The problem is, there is too much interrupt, so the signal would be.. not that great... So two mcu, one is interface to wifi, the other is the controller. But how good would be the signal? There comes the scope. And 35263×n+1 other places: Are the two "direction" switched on at the same time? Is there too much space? Is it really a signal I looking for? Etc, etc, etc.. :) Then I'd like to check my switching stuff (like dc-dc converters, usb psu), and your lets do stuff with a fast dac seems very interesting, there'd be quite a few stuff to try to emulate. I had an idea to make an onboard computer for my "bike" (Simson S51). (Yeah, isolation, isolation, and "How to not blow up your scope" :D ) Well, i have quite a few intermitten stuff, so It would be nice to know it is sw, hw, or not that reliable connection type of fault :D
That scope will be a nice addition to my poor mans electronic lab (the only equipment that I have near an oscilloscope it’s a cheap logic analyzer). Keep the good work and I will waiting for the part 2
Too many things for an entry level :-)) This is not an oscilloscope but a complete center of analysis of the waveforms ... what else to add, if not: wonderful! In the lucky case I was extracted, I promise to use it with all the respect it deserves :-))) Hi
If I was to get the oscilloscope I would use it to extend my learning of micro electronics and expand already on my customised home automation software which I have built with help from you. All the best :)
I'm building out my own electronics workshop at home. I'd like to start building sensors and other home automation projects, much like what you did with your ESP8266 projects and Node-RED. An oscilloscope is the last big price item that I don't have yet.
As neither I nor the school where I teach have a scope, I bet I could find a good use for it. Either for debugging simple arduino projects or for a more advanced physics experiments. If I win, more than a 100 children will get their first access to a modern piece of measurement equipment, hopefully kindling their interest in STEM subjects.
Decoding I2c and other serial would be really helpful across an number of my projects. Does the scope decode over the whole capture or just what is in the screen buffer? The Rigol scopes only do the screen buffer m which don't make them very useful for this purpose unless it is for a very short capture. Fingers x'd for the win!
Thank you for pointing out the power button light pollution while the unit is "off". That is such an annoying usability anti-pattern and is the kind of thing that would annoy me if the device was in my home lab.
Thanks for the review! I always wanted an oscilloscope :) I had some projects that I couldn't solve some issues and scope would really help debugging those issues.
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Thanks for the review. Looks like good value, and would not mind to win one;). Is protocol decoding included on the price, or is an optional? Need is a bit strong for my hobby usage. I have a small JYETech DSO112 with is enough for troubleshooting. Having more than one analogue channel would be great. For decoding serial protocols have a cheap USB logic thing+sigrok, which has been sufficient.
Hello, I would use this scope to better understand the behavior of my circuits (mostly audio/synthesis related). I could stop using the sound-card input to have a picture of a wave...
I learn by trial and error and I would love to press those soft sexy illuminated buttons.
Bitluni can you make a cat litterbox project?
Maybe with Wemos and some nema23 motors? Weight sensors and mp3 shield to play sound effects :D
The self cleaning part would be helpful
You won the scope! I need your shipping address... Please contact me on google+ (I added you to my contacts) or any other way I see that it is actually you.
I won? I have never won anything this great! What are the odds? Whatever the case, lucky me and thank you so much! I'm speechless and a little bit intimidated. The oscilloscope seems pretty next level.Thank you again I'll contact you asap.
Is your first name Tuomas? need to check if it's you that posted on Google+
Yes that's me.
Bazinga!!!1 :)
Fantastic review!!! Had me sold in the first 30 seconds. I love that you got right to the point and didn't waste 10 minutes introducing yourself and explaining how and what you are going to do in your video. Other people that waste my time doing that , lose me in 2 seconds. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. :)
Great review!!! I just got the 1204X-E and you taught me more about my scope in 19mins than I’ve learnt in the last week! Thanks :)
Hi unexpected maker, I'm from Brazil and I would like to get a 1204X-E as well. How is it after 2 years? Is it working well? Have you noticed some bug or something like that?
@@wesleykrause5795 just bought it yesterday, so iam leaving coment here :) Want to know too
Thanks for the review! It was really helpful and got me to decide what I need versus what I want. Just ordered from Amazon. Can't wait to get it. Appreciate your time putting this video together.
I'm a lone developer working on Assistive Devices for children with special needs. As a lone, self-funded developer such devices are drastically out of my affordability. I am currently completing assembly of a DSO138 but it does not have the specs required. It will help but not in most instances.
Thanks for the videos. Very interesting and useful
Awesome that you got to keep it, when I do reviews for Siglent I have to give the items back 😞, I reviewed this scope when they first came out.
Great review and awesome addition to your lab! I'm an EE student and I'm currently working on designing and building a multi channel, programmable SMPS-based Lab supply and it would be great to see the transient response and overshoot of the voltage and current limiting with a scope. Btw, good luck to everybody else :)
My oscilloscope is a 1979 one from eBay for 20 bucks. It's capable of 30Mhz and is good enough for most of all applications. But since I'm into digital electronics, there is no way around a digital oscilloscope. It would be an honor to receive such a device :)
Thanks for this product review. As a beginner, I haven’t used one of these before, but I anticipate getting my projects sophisticated enough to benefit from such a tool, eventually. I have much to learn.
Wow, what an excellently concise review. You covered a lot of functionality in just 19 mins!
An ideal scope for any electronics maker. It’s quite amazing the power and functionality you get these days, in a scope described as “entry level”.
I suspect most owners will only just scratch the surface of it’s full set of capabilities!
I think a couple of the stand-out features are the built in serial decoding, and the lower frequency spectrum analyser capability.
Other than that, I have 4 channel envy! :-)
I'm 19 and i'm planning on becoming an electronic engineer. An oscilloscope would definitely be a great addition :)
I purchased the same scope after watching this video. Picked it up at the Post office today.
Looking forward to test it for my hobby projects. Will retire my old Tektronix 465 from ca 1980.
Glad you asked - I want to know:
1. How to set a trigger on some signal transmission?
2. Why I even need the math functions?
3. Why these set of math functions presented in the menue and not something else?
4. Suppose I have a LCD from an old tablet (which I do) with a SPI buss, can the oscilloscope be useful to set up the connection and display a picture?
5. How to measure the noise of a power supply?
6. Can I measure high voltage sources?
Brilliant review! You're always so easy to understand. I'm new to electronics (only just got hold of a proper soldering iron) and have been looking around for a scope. I'm a software engineer but I have caught the IOT maker bug. Started with a simple module that's easy to code for and is drawing me into building my own sensor and actuation circuits! I'd immediately use it for debugging I2C and also helping with a low power radar sensor (need the FFT).
I've been watching your last bundle of uploads like clockwork. Somehow you always upload a video related to what I'm working on!
This time is NO EXCEPTION!
I'd really love this amazing SDS 1104X-E scope to fine tune my circuits connected to my multiplexed RGB LED matrix. I'm attaching it to a set of FPV goggles, but shhhh for now ;).
I promise to send you a Google drive link when it's up and running!
( If I get it up and running that is... Dang LiPo discharge *fist shake*)
I'm working on a spectrum analyser that will display on LEDs columns the frequencies my audio signal has.
Currently an electrical engineer student. I can't work from home so this oscilloscope would be great :)
in any case,
Thank you so much for you videos, it inspired me greatly to do what I do today.
Love the humour in your videos :)
thanks for the review - the 100MHz bandwidth, the 4 channels, protocol decoders and additional logic probes would be a great improvement over my Rigol 1052; but I see from the comments that some people need it more than I do
Nice review. Adding my $0.10 ...
I'm a firmware engineer and bought one for working at home - partly because I wanted one, also didn't want to lug my employers equipment back and forth during covid. I got this one to be able to add the digital probe later. Out of all my equipment, along with the DMM I probably get the most usage out of a logic analyzer. Being able to set up triggers based on digital patterns is really nice. The bandwidth of the scope fits well with the kind of stuff I work on. I also like being able to put it on the LAN to view the screen on my PC - really convenient to just use clipping tool to paste scope traces into emails.
So far, I've been very happy with it. One of my personal tests is how easy something is to figure out without resorting to the manual. It has been excellent that way. The controls seem intuitive (perhaps its from having used many Tek and Keysight scopes, who knows?). I can't really complain about anything.
BTW - Siglent makes excellent 'value for money' benchtop DMMs too.
Trying to supply basic equipment to my small "mancave corner" this scope would be definitelly great addition allowing me to do the "one step further". Thanks for the review.
Excellent review, thanks a lot! Definitely I would like to use it for debugging I2C communications. Moreover, this device looks very promising for helping me experimenting around vlf wireless analysis.
Greetings from Mexico!
Hey. Thanks for the review. I am an InfoSec engineer and I am interested in the logic analyzer. It can come handy to reverse engineer some embedded hardware devices. Anyhow, thanks for what you do and please continue the good work! Your ESP32 composite output videos are awesome.
Thank you for this well done video. I'm getting one of these for Christmas and I see that beyond the things I would normally use on a scope, I have my work cut out for me in getting to the more refined and complex analyzing that this scope will offer. Thank you - Phil Donovan
Hi, I've been learning electronics for 3 years now and it's a lot of fun! An oscilloscope would allow me to study the behavior of electonic components under AC. I have already bought a cheap signal generator and I'd like to play with it!
Great review! The scope has more feature than a beginner is required. For me the protocol decoding is the most interesting feature.
This was a great review that covered a ton of scope features and gave a great sense of what they're used for!
This looks like a great scope for both digital stuff and low end RF stuff... I'd love to get this for HAM work as I'm starting to get into building my own transceivers and I'll need some way to debug things when they (inevitably) don't work quite right.
As an EECS student this would really come in handy as our school doesn't allow us to check out any oscilloscopes or logic analyzers, and I've been looking at getting my own. Really great looking scope!
I'm currently working on dual microwave 5.8 GHz and laser radar with STM32 uC with CAN interface with UDS and XCP capabilities - debug would go faster with 2ch oscilloscope.
Keep up the good work!
Thanks for the review! I'm just an electronics hobbyist to counterbalance my IT related work. I'm interested in the oscilloscope to support retro computing repairs, my microcontroller projects and so on. I really like the possibility to decode the protocols and the logic analyzer.
Finally a good review on this scope. Bummer I missed the giveaway, as I had never heard of this channel before. I'm an instant fan. Subscribed!
Amazed by the protocol decoding. When I had a scope, it was a cheap, portable, single channel type without much more than a trigger! Would love to have a scope, especially one as great as this, as I'm currently scraping by without one. Anyways, love your videos, and keep up the great work!
Wow, thats a pretty handy scope! i personally would use it for serial Debugging and Power Supply noise checking, and much more.
Looks like a great scope and very good value for money with all the decoders etc. built in.
I'd like to use it for watching my low power (coin cell) ATtiny projects as they wake from sleep, read some sensors and then go back to sleep. This way I can check the timing and current draw as well as energy used (math integral function) for each wake up event.
As always to the point review and no bias.
I am myself work with android and rassberry pi, and specially need this scope for detail analysis of real time clock and timer functions. It will also help me to get the timing of RF signal from rf remotes .
I love my 1104X-E. I use it mostly for audio and was disappointed with the usability of the FFT. Guess I need a considerably more expensive audio analyzer. That was a great overview video. Would like more details on some functions. But your video has inspired me to investigate more. I also do BODE PLOTS with a Siglent waveform generator connected to the 1104X-E. THANK YOU!
Great and thorough review thank you!
I need this scope because i don't have one and can't afford to get one, even the cheapest ones.
Budget is not easy when you try and go further into electronic projects.
Very detailed review! I would love to have one of these. I'm a software developer and like to tinker with mcus. But without an oscilloscope it is very hard to debug my projects, tons of guesswork :D
Thank you. I have a long interest in electronics; my present area is exploration of signal analysis using FFT. I propose to use an oscilloscope to examine basic signal characteristics of generated waveforms.
Great review. I am learning more about my new scppe every time I watch this review
Nice review. This oscilloscope would be a great improvement over my DSO150, which was very cheap (price edited because RUclips thinks my post is an advertisement) but only offers single channel and very basic functionality. I would use it mainly for Arduino and other microcontroller projects. By the way, I am really impressed about your ESP32 project to generate composite video signals, looking forward to a VGA version.
bough it and just arrived. As a EE student, im verry pleased with it, thanks!
I'm a computer science student who has been a hobbyist programmer since I was around 15. recently within the past few years I took a class on electronics and was fascinated. I started getting into Arduino and other microprocessors and such, hacking devices and making my own projects. This has been extremely fun and educational for me but I often run into roadblocks like when determining what speed I can push a microcontroller or what protocol something might be using. It is also very hard and frustrating trying to observe what my code does with higher speed signals and such, it's almost impossible. I've wanted a scope for a while now but I can't afford one being the student I am. If I get this scope I would love to share it with EE students or a local makerspace or the like. I know how frustrating it can be without one so I would love to share this tool and help other budding electronic engineers, hobbyists, or makers move forward on their projects and learn a lot in the process. Thank you.
I'd love to use this on my little channel. It would certainly be an upgrade from my DSO128 kit scope! Serial decoding would be the best feature...for me anyway.
Good luck to all who enter!
Nice review! Did you ever do a follow-on review of the optional digital logic analyzer? It's pretty amazing that this "entry-level" scope has the ability to do that.
If you’re still interested all this time later; I’m hopefully gonna be buying one of these in the next week or two, and while I won’t be getting the LA straight away, this is like half the reason for me to buy the thing (maybe a third; the other two thirds being the AWG and the fact that it seems even better bang for buck than the Rigol, thanks to the hardware options.)
I will be making extensive use of the serial decode which comes at standard straight away though. This might give me an idea, and I’m happy to pass this on once I’ve had time with it.
This scope is so nice. Best thing I've ever bought (together with a Siglent Arbitrary Waveform Generator). Just the scope features are really nice, but then what really makes it killer are the awesome FFT and the bode-plot functions
I don't think there is any missing functionality, and the "serial" triggers and decoders seems really cool (maybe not the best features, but clearly one of the most interesting for me).
I wanted to change my 1980's oscilloscope for a while, so let's try to get it !
Wow! That scope has functions that are light years ahead of the JYE Tech DSO Shell scope I built and the cheap digital logic probe that plugs into the USB port on my computer! I'm no where near experienced enough to say what it's best feature is but for me it would be nice to have it's multiple inputs to capture timed events both digital and analog and see the events on the screen at the same time! It really cleans up the work bench to have so much packed into one device. Circuits I design with the EveryCircuit app and others don't always work the same built on a bread board and it would be nice to monitor multiple points during part value substitutions to view the effects on the circuits. This scope has a huge market in the growing hobby electronics community.
This is an excellent honest review. I would love to have a scope like this. I'm new to electronics and trying to dive in as much as possible. I've been a programmer for many years, but I never got into the electronics side of things until recently. An Oscilloscope would really help me visualize what is happening. My goal is robotics.
This scope would be an upgrade to the one I have. I would use it on my many ham radio and micro-controller projects. You did awesome job on reviewing this scope!
I would need this for my (still buggy) connected coffee maker project ! With this, no more failed coffee at the morning !
Standard protocol decoder is very impressive to me. I don't get any major Missing in this scope.
All & all its price worthy , & offcours you have explained lots of functions in this video.
Thanks for the nice review.
One of the features that I think is missing is to be able to save a short video of a dynamic waveform(s). A 5 or 10 second video would be nice that I or colleagues could review later.
one of the best and most explanatory reviews out there. bitluni do you still use the sds1104x-e or moved to something else?
A scope would be infinitely useful to allow me to do such things as decoding/reverse engineering 'non-open' communication protocols such as complex infrared, proprietary communication mechanisms, etc to allow bridging to open standards and controls. A scope would be a key tool in helping me learn more and properly understand concepts such as duty cycle, frequency, logic levels and timings. Such things are difficult to fully comprehend without the ability to visualise the electrical behaviour. I have never used or had a scope before, and would love to be the recipient of one to help me with my projects and learning, as well as being able to share with others. The winner, whomever it is, will be very lucky.
This review sold me. I now have one. Now if only there was a wide band (50MHz) AC/DC current probe powered by USB that didn't cost a fortune.
Hi again :)
I'm watching Your channel almost from the beginning. Because of You I'm using Wemos at daily basics and with every day I'm more and more fascinated with what I can doby my own!
I'm thinking about using RF to build data loggers for my bee hives (measure temperature, humidity etc). Besides that oscilloscope is a must have for more advanced projects (for example to build single remote for multiple devices).
Best of luck with future projects!
P.S. maybe they will be with ESP32 and Bluetooth devices (for example how to pair iTag with ESP32)? :)
I would need especially the logic analyser functions too. I'm at the beginning of building an 8-bit computer, startet with the power supply, clock signal and reset circuit. Next step will be minimal system with a Z80, RAM, EPROM and a LCD Text display for output. A scope containing a logic analyser would come handy when running into some issues with the signals on the buses.
Its a great scope for a hobbyist as I am, I don't use half of the functions, but nice to have as I may one day need them.
Well informed review! I would love to get this oscilloscope because currently I do not own one. I am a student so I cannot afford to spend that much on a scope. I would use it for a home automation system I am currently developing. This would aid me in being able to turn regular devices into smart devices without major modification.
Thanks for the detailed review! I love your videos and I‘m learning alot from you.
I never had an osciloscope and would die for winning this great device!!!
I would really like to see an in-depth review of the FFT resolution (sidebands distinguishability in an AM/FM signal for instance) , since this scope should do FFT with 1Mpts, much more than other pricey scopes.
I am a physics Graduate student with a passion for electronics, I have a cheap Analog scope but I would like to get into the digital world.
Thank you for the detailed review. I need this DSO to complete my DeathStar.
Thumbs up for the review.. keep those videos coming :) It could become my first scope and could extend my knowledge and speed up the learning curve in electronics...
Nice one!. I have started putting together many more ESP based projects and been inspired by your channel to take this further. I have usually used modules but started experimenting with making custom circuit designs with many more devices and custom circuitry so this scope would be great for debugging the various digital coms and trying out new circuit patterns and theories. I have a old low end siglent scope but it’s two channel and doesn’t have any features over the basics so this scope would get past the limitations I hit with my current one.
Dang, makes me wish I had the cash for one! I just graduated high school and have been slowly getting little bits and pieces of tech from my robotics lab but nothing more complex than a multi-meter. A scope such as this would be a huge boon to what I, and probably my robotics lab as a whole, could make! The logic analyzer seems great for debugging our robots that use a combo of I2C and UART and even CAN sometimes. Especially when noobies forget to send the commands.
Thank you for the video!
Great review and very accurate information regarding the capabilities of the device. Thanks
My current scope is an old 10Mhz 3-tube scope (1x screen, 2x input amplifier), so the Siglent would be a huge improvement. I would use it primarily in microcontroller projects, for bus decoding, signal analysis and power measurements.
Nice review. I really like the decode feature with 4 probes with the support for all the protocols.
Very cool
Excellent video tutorial ! Really great stuff ! Since I was genetically modified to be an computer/electronics nerd this scope would suit me very well. Why I need it ? Well....
I need to analyse signals coming from an older PMR radio programmer (Philips/Simoco) which uses a special dedicated programming cable. That cable looks like a RS-232 and RJ45 combination and is custom made. So no standards here. The software runs on MS-DOS 6.2 and I would like to create an app. that makes it accesible from Windows. Impossible to do without this equipment. Futher more, as a sign of my respect and gratitude when I get this scope, I'll offer you a basket of the best beers in the world. You already knew we have the best beer in the world... ! Well now you're getting close to actually taste a few of them !
I am a Geodesy and Geoinformatics student from Hnanover. I would love to have this device, because im planning in building my own digital H0 modeltrain, where every decoder is selfbuild. Also my goal is to use Computervision on an Raspberry Pi, to know, where every train is at every moment. The final step would be to implement an Autopilot with more than one train on each track, since autopiloting/selfdriving cars fit well into my studying area. I have had no oszilloscope so far.
keep up your great work. Sincerely Tim Schimansky
Really detailed review of the functions. It would be a great addition to our maker space.
I'm not very well versed on what makes a good scope. Well, not at all, but the bandwidth is what is recommended in several books if you want to be able to make all kinds of repairs and not be limited by your osci. The sampling rate seems great. It's really difficult to decide on an entry-level oscilloscope since you're going to sink a lot of money either way but you just can't make the judgement call of what features you will and won't need.
So there is this osci from a competitor that you surely know about which has a known "unofficial upgrade path" so you'll get quite a capable device, but how would a beginner know for example that the probes are up to the task after "upgrading"? I just wish that one of the most important pieces of equipment wouldn't be either a gamble or a money sink.
Anyways, keep up the great work :)
Apropos... you have quite a bit of videos that I didn't notice before. There goes my time I guess.
Nice review.
If you had to choose between DZ1054Z and SDS1104X-E, which one would you get?
I'm using only the siglent now. rigol annoys with the locked protocols.. no time to hack it
One way to allow touchscreen functionality without the cost of a panel would be to include a bluetooth module like an ESP32 on the scope and an Android/iOS app for both alternative interface, storage and user customisable macros. I think the first scope manufacturer to include this will have a huge advantage.
Awesome! Thanks for the great review! The SDS would be a perfect upgrade for my analog Hameg from the 80s!
A Month ago I needed a scope for a project. So I did go to the local makerspace .Havinga a scope for myself would be nice when you have problems you need/want to solve fast.
I think I bought mine about 3 years ago. My descision to buy was The Price (£450 ish) The Channel count. The Decode already enabled...(awesome) and I like Siglant gear, I have a SDS1102CML (bought first) and a SDG805 gen.... very nice gear
What funcionality you get for your hard earned money......
That’s a great detailed review! I would use the oscilloscope for my general study in electrical engineering, and also it would be a great help for debugging my IoT projects with the logic analyzer.
Nice scope! Would be well received on my workbench, specially with the serial decoders and fft functionality. My latest project is building a custom RC control with support to multiple wireless protocols... esp32 will be the main brain and a lot of different ic’s on spi, i2c and serial talking to it. Debugging on a scope instead of print statements is always appreciated!
Best feature, advance triggers and protocol decoding.
Possibility to attach an external monitor (like a HDMI output) would be nice to have.
I would like to have one for various electronic experiments.
Thank you for the review. I liked the detail. Did the logic analyzer work well for you? TY
I'm building a MIDI controller for my hardware synths. But it is so hard to troubleshoot when you cant see the signals. This scopes serial protocols features should really make my day.
Could you do audio music signal probe vs analog oscilloscope? I doubt digital oscilloscope produce a lot of delay. and I want to see which one is closer to zero lag.
I have quite a few idea! First would be a variable frequency drive for my fan, its too loud and fast for night, and I haven't found any other solution (yet) that would be complicated enough to learn something, but easy enough to try. Plus it can be connected to the internet. The problem is, there is too much interrupt, so the signal would be.. not that great... So two mcu, one is interface to wifi, the other is the controller. But how good would be the signal? There comes the scope. And 35263×n+1 other places: Are the two "direction" switched on at the same time? Is there too much space? Is it really a signal I looking for? Etc, etc, etc.. :)
Then I'd like to check my switching stuff (like dc-dc converters, usb psu), and your lets do stuff with a fast dac seems very interesting, there'd be quite a few stuff to try to emulate. I had an idea to make an onboard computer for my "bike" (Simson S51). (Yeah, isolation, isolation, and "How to not blow up your scope" :D )
Well, i have quite a few intermitten stuff, so It would be nice to know it is sw, hw, or not that reliable connection type of fault :D
That scope will be a nice addition to my poor mans electronic lab (the only equipment that I have near an oscilloscope it’s a cheap logic analyzer).
Keep the good work and I will waiting for the part 2
Too many things for an entry level :-))
This is not an oscilloscope but a complete center of analysis of the waveforms ... what else to add, if not: wonderful!
In the lucky case I was extracted, I promise to use it with all the respect it deserves :-)))
Hi
If I was to get the oscilloscope I would use it to extend my learning of micro electronics and expand already on my customised home automation software which I have built with help from you. All the best :)
I'm building out my own electronics workshop at home. I'd like to start building sensors and other home automation projects, much like what you did with your ESP8266 projects and Node-RED. An oscilloscope is the last big price item that I don't have yet.
Nice features. Thanks for the detailed review.
I don't have a scope with a logic analyzer and this one would help with my power generator project.
Let's turn it on, not take it apart! LOL
I chuckled at that one.
@@TurboHawkV6 thats good one tho
As neither I nor the school where I teach have a scope, I bet I could find a good use for it. Either for debugging simple arduino projects or for a more advanced physics experiments. If I win, more than a 100 children will get their first access to a modern piece of measurement equipment, hopefully kindling their interest in STEM subjects.
Great review. detailed but straight to the point. Thank you.
Decoding I2c and other serial would be really helpful across an number of my projects. Does the scope decode over the whole capture or just what is in the screen buffer? The Rigol scopes only do the screen buffer m which don't make them very useful for this purpose unless it is for a very short capture. Fingers x'd for the win!
Thank you for pointing out the power button light pollution while the unit is "off". That is such an annoying usability anti-pattern and is the kind of thing that would annoy me if the device was in my home lab.
Very useful review! I don't have a Scope in my lab yet so I would use it for all arduino and ESP32 related projects - especially IoT related things :)
Thanks for the review!
I always wanted an oscilloscope :)
I had some projects that I couldn't solve some issues and scope would really help debugging those issues.
Thanks for the review. Looks like good value, and would not mind to win one;). Is protocol decoding included on the price, or is an optional?
Need is a bit strong for my hobby usage. I have a small JYETech DSO112 with is enough for troubleshooting. Having more than one analogue channel would be great. For decoding serial protocols have a cheap USB logic thing+sigrok, which has been sufficient.
Great job! Siglent guys would not have made such a great review of their device.
Great Video.
I would use the scope to further expand my DIY Smart Home System and to analyze devices I take apart.
This scope would indeed be good value for my ATMEL projects!
Hello,
I would use this scope to better understand the behavior of my circuits (mostly audio/synthesis related).
I could stop using the sound-card input to have a picture of a wave...