Will this O-scope be good enough to set the gain on my amps?

[pheonix991 10+ year member]

Found this cheap small handy piece of equipment, thought it might be good for setting the perfect gain on my amps.

Seeed Studio DSO Nano, Pocket Digital Storage Oscilloscope - Review

Anyone have any experience with this thing, heard good or bad things, could I use it for tuning my amps?

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[Farmacist 10+ year member]

looks pretty sweet actually, but whats the price... ti says thats a beta model

 

[pheonix991 10+ year member]

looks pretty sweet actually, but whats the price... ti says thats a beta model

Looks to be around $90-100. Here is where I found it.

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[Spooney 10+ year member]

look on ebay. you can find good working used ocilloscopes for cheap. For setting gains and even amp repair you can use just about the oldest oscilloscope ever made and still have enough capability to do everything you would need to do.

 

[Sarthos 10+ year member]

404 not found? :/

 

[pheonix991 10+ year member]

404 not found? :/

Look on Ebay for "dso nano".

 

[SpiderX1016 10+ year member]

It would be nice if you can connect your own leads and it looks like it's only one channel?

For $80-100, it doesn't look bad.

 

[phemps 10+ year member]

bumpp. someone with o-scope knowledge please say something. i want to know if this would work for gains im looking to order an oscope tomorrow and really wanna know how this will preform

 

[the727kid 10+ year member]

If I remember correctly, setting gains with an o-scope is still not accurate unless you do it by fqs. Say you set your gains at 50hz but still could be clipping at 30hz.

 

[Wildbillpb 10+ year member]

The guy said it easily reads 20hz-20khz audio applications so you should be good... I will probably order one right now lol

 

[bubbagumper6 5,000+ posts]

look on ebay. you can find good working used ocilloscopes for cheap. For setting gains and even amp repair you can use just about the oldest oscilloscope ever made and still have enough capability to do everything you would need to do.

This. The only thing the scope needs to be able to do is display a simple AC sine wave...which is the most basic signal you could ever think of, you'd be hard pressed to find a scope that DOESN'T do this...

 

[Farmacist 10+ year member]

This. The only thing the scope needs to be able to do is display a simple AC sine wave...which is the most basic signal you could ever think of, you'd be hard pressed to find a scope that DOESN'T do this...

lol a mechanic i work with was tellin me how sweet his DMM he got was from snapon, said it was 800 or something ... and then he said yea... its even an oscope... I look it , and there were no settings at all that showed it had that capability. laughed in his face after that.

 

[SpiderX1016 10+ year member]

lol a mechanic i work with was tellin me how sweet his DMM he got was from snapon, said it was 800 or something ... and then he said yea... its even an oscope... I look it , and there were no settings at all that showed it had that capability. laughed in his face after that.

Was it just a DMM or did it have an O-Scope?

I used the Modis and it worked fine. Kind of odd since some sensors out there produce AC.

 

[xoch1 10+ year member]

i hate to dig up an old thread like this but I was wondering if the original poster or anyone for that matter has tried this o-scope? I ran across it on ebay as well by accident and then found this thread.....lol being such a cheap price i was somewhat skeptical. Will this work for setting gains?

 

[Annnarbor84 5,000+ posts]

i hate to dig up an old thread like this but I was wondering if the original poster or anyone for that matter has tried this o-scope? I ran across it on ebay as well by accident and then found this thread.....lol being such a cheap price i was somewhat skeptical. Will this work for setting gains?

Should work fine for setting gains and such. O-Scopes have come down in price over the years, so it is not surprising that someone came out with one for under $100.......