Hantek Scope verses Fluke Scope (How Good is it?)

today in this video I'm going to put this hand excope up against his fluke and we're going to compare their features and functions and we're going to see if disco can keep up with this very expensive scope here cost 10 times the price of this scope by the way nowadays it's like four thousand five hundred dollars five hundred dollars for disco twelve years ago when I got this I paid twenty three hundred for it so we're going to see which scope is the best or if you can keep up or if they're equal before I started the testing on the Hat Tech I had to go through the equipment to make sure everything was in operational but I noticed that these spoke probes that it came with these are chunk or the capacitors they're broken and I got terrible readings like I rounded off readings of square wave forms with these growth probes and it made this hand tick look like it was a piece of junk because both inputs are showing exactly the same thing so it was kind of like oh that's the scope so I had to get some high voltage probes actually just times 100 is all they are these right here have a nice response time so this is what we're going to be using in the test right here okay I put basically a kilohertz wave into them and they're both reading generally equal at one point oh four six or four seven that's good let's increase the frequency it looks so good I just thought I'd go for it so I'm up here to probably around 40 kilohertz somewhere there we go nice and flat reading the same waveform that's good good so far now I picked a scope up on eBay I saw it I just started drooling over it and I'll hope this thing is good you know so we're going to keep testing here and see I might start throwing more I don't know so I'll tell you this coat although it's a digital scope it's basically analog controlled so it's quick to set up and get the trigger and all that lined up and everything well this is more computerized where it has little selections and once you set them all up it remembers those so the next time you go to use it if you happen to be in that frequency range all those settings are great for you but if you're not you got to go around and reset everything so that's the one difference in this between that over there between this fluke and between the hand Tek okay so one little difference I noted is that when you expand out on your time scale wherever you're got your trigger set with the fluke now it has the left and right position for triggers so you can move it over it's going to press that for us to initialize it you can move your trigger over to the center or wherever so wherever your trigger is that's where it's going to stay focused on the waveform as you zoom out so as we zoom out more we start looking at that now over here even though the triggers on the right here it's telling you the height of where it's going to trigger at the voltage level but in the center that's where it tends to hang out tends to stay in the center focused on the waveform now you can move it with the left and right buttons right down here so it's generally the same thing as a float just a little bit different type of operation maybe to avoid copyright infringement I don't know but this is generally getting to be a pretty nice scope in the operation here one feature that does hand tech scope as I've noted right now over this fluke scope is it has his auto set when you press that it calibrates everything so if you press it it goes through the whole range again it's basically finished right there so anytime you operate a menu on this to turn the menu off basically it has a menu off button here I think that the menu will go off after so many seconds if you just let it sit but if you want to get rid of it quicker you can use this button right here and that'll turn it off right away now when I first got to his hand tech scope it came with some key probes I mean they might have been good on another time but they they were not flat and clean they were rounding the waveform off no matter what you couldn't adjust them or anything maybe there's a broken inside so that at first I didn't suspect I was expecting the scope because it's $500 it's so low in price it's unbelievable that you could get something that would function this good for that amount of money so I suggest getting some high quality scope probes actually I only paid $15 for this one here's a high voltage probe because the probes that come with it they're not high enough voltage to operate to look at coilgun projects and things like that in the 450 full range so I had to get high voltage probes and they actually work much cleaner than the pros that it came would so I'm pretty impressed with this scope right now so much that let's let's put the fluke scope to the side this have got some other features in it that the fluke doesn't even have that I want to show you just like the fluke scope it has save and recall features so basically I got two generator on if I want to save this and press the save recall button then you press wave then you got to press this it hit save and then there's your file now to get out of this you got to press save recall again and then menu off now we're looking at the in but signal so let's get rid of it now let's go back and see if we can recall the wave go to wave and then recall and there it is turning man you are now that's basically stored in memory and when you put the machine back and run it's gone so here we put the generator back on that's equivalent of just basically doing this the fluke does have this function also too but it's easier on a hand tech because it's only one on one off you can freeze it and you can start it up let it take signal input again this is cool I like to sculpt a lot really the only con about this scope is it doesn't come with any instructions so you basically got to play with these buttons to figure it out so it was a little confusing at first I have to say like that if you keep doing it all the time you pretty much be pretty in tune with how it works it ends up being a nice cope actually so we expand the waveform I look at it there you know so this here blinking up bread that's the battery charge like there's no instructions so when this thing is blinking up many times red and very little green that's when the batter is cool otherwise it's not really full again because the green bars if we keep watching maybe a little show up here consistent plugged in a while they will keep pulsing over to the right and it makes you think that the battery's not full because they go from low to medium to high all the time so the clue is that it's blinking red many times and it doesn't go to green very often that's when the battery is full so let's unplug the charger and we'll just run right off the battery now you see it's all green got three bars we're full I hope you can see that one thing this does have that the flip scope don't have is you can change the colors of the screen under system you can do it's called the interface but it's really like the border and as with selections of color and then we go in here - two more you take it be under display but it's not go to wave colors and we can select an orange red green pink cyan or standard yellow so that's kind of cool the Fluke doesn't have that under each and every one of these buttons to trigger the horizontal and the menu there's you got like a little option of selections there and so if we go to horizontal it will give us this here window selection we can actually double window now the flick scope that I have does not do this so this is kind of cool it gives you like a close in view and expand it view of what you're looking at so basically let's look at it if we were looking at that many pulses actually it gives us a couple times scale on the zoom that's kind of cool so if you want to take a one-shot freeze of a waveform basically you go to your trigger here and put it on single and then now I'll connect this momentarily to the little generator and it captures that waveform right in there and this I guess will reset it for you but it still remembers what's in there until the next one comes so there's the next next shot so that's how that works so you can use that on coil guns if you want to capture the pulse and the auto mode it runs continuously like the fluke scope it does have a recorded and has three modes so basically if you pick one it will start recording basically this looks at a long event to see if there's a glitch and so now you can tell if there's a glitch at that location in the search that's pretty useful to get out of these modes basically you go to return say yes and then wait five seconds or menu off it also has a DVM mode scope or DVM I don't use a digital voltmeter usually on the scopes but it's handy if you're out in the field you need to look at some voltage real quick press it again to go back to the scope it has a cursor function right here if you press this and then select the type in time we can now measure imagine you can move these with these left and right buttons and they a work and so you can see where your measurement you can start a name is little handy feature to have that plus besides that if you just move this because of the center line you can tell how wide you you pulse with just by using that little quick feature right there so it's got one point six and micro seconds that's pretty handy when nice feature is you can change the intensity of the grid background under utility and go into leave it display and there's a grid dotted line it's on the second part of the menu so there's three little menus to display there's that menu and that one there's a dotted line you can have all straight lines okay we can turn it off so there's dot light and also intensity you can control how bright that dotted line is it's very same thing nice features and to round it up let's try a little sine wave generator about 38 kilohertz and it looks pretty good look so this is a close-up screenshot here so you can see what I'm talking about the battery gauges up on the top right corner and then below that we have 129 kilohertz that's a little frequency measurement tag that you can go into the system in there and you can set it up so the peers on the screen now I don't know how to turn that off I've been looking around just like I said this thing sometimes confusing but I turned it on once and it's just there so let's look at the measurement right here in the very center this blue thing right here this is what I want to show you if you move the waveform you can tell you how many microseconds milliseconds the waveform is moved over to go over on this side something on a positive side down here at the bottom on the left you'll see a five volt that's your range right there range is set five volts per square division on the right side that's your trigger voltage four point six volts where we set your trigger at if you move your trigger that goes up triggers that flag to move it down and that's how your trigger works up at the top here that's your range of microseconds your time divisions so if I demonstrate the auto-set button on the keyboard here and I press it we can look at the screen and you see it goes through the ranges now if we just press the menu off right now it'll leave these little information bar about the waveform at the bottom there that's pretty cool now if you want to get out of that you got to press menu and then you got to press cancel and then menu off so basically if we want to look at the the menus for the vertical or the voltage we could press those look in here see them up close a little bit better and we want to look at the menu for the horizontal there it is right there this is where we can get our windows cut window single window you want to look at the menu for the trigger it's got more features over here you're coupling one thing to do is when you get this scope is utility and you want to look at all these options that are in here and get to know where the wrap basically it's navigation once you have navigation it's easier to work this scope a little confusing at first it was to me but because I'm used to a fluke but difficult once you get to know what's going on there's pretty much no problem with it it's got a great color display I mean it's crisp and sharp I can't can't denied it that at all so all in all I like this scope so like I said when I first saw it on eBay I started drooling when I was looking at and I was hoping that it's going to be everything that I wanted and it turned out to be that it is so if you want to save some money and you want to get into some advanced projects of coil guns power supply switching audio amplifiers this is an excellent scope right here I highly recommend it and so I want to thank everyone for watching this video and I hope you've learned something from this and it's helped you out maybe save you some money too thank you and have a good day

Channel: Moss Fett Labs

Views: 64,964

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Keywords: Hantek Oscilloscope, Fluke Oscilloscope, Hantek vs Fluke

Id: 8WQWW_93D74

Length: 18min 14sec (1094 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 12 2017