Hantek CC-65 low cost current probe review  

I have an idea for you and hope to post a video about it tomorrow or at least this weekend. Thank you for the great comment!

@@KissAnalog I will be waiting excitedly !

Kadir Özdinç I’m sorry, I ran in into difficulties. I’m traveling now, but I will get to this. I’m really anxious to delve into this topic! I understand what current level you. Are interested in, but at what frequency range? I want to be sure I get your answer as best I can!

Clamp probes tend to be bad at low currents. You will have to use something inline for low currents. uCurrent Gold or tinyCurrent. However, these are hard to find, particularly uCurrent Gold which is out of stock everywhere. However, CurrentRanger is available, but it is more expensive than the CC-65 clamp probe.

And thank you for the great feedback!! What current probes do you use now?

Thanks much! I appreciate you!

Thanks so much! Here is another on this probe: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LGN2H1R2hcs.html

@@KissAnalog THANK YOU, this world is made that much better for awesome people like yourselves, who do take the time and effort to go that extra 'mile' to make a palpable difference in everyone's lives, Yes i shall go there now and watch, take care and please keep on doing what you Do, Bless 😇

Markus Keller LOL Thanks Markus! I hope you have fun with your new toys;)

Thanks so much!

Sounds like you have your work cut out;). The Hantek probe has been great - it just needs to have the degaussing button reset it after every few readings - just to be sure.

Thank you for the great feedback!

Tektronix and Fluke were both scooped up by Danaher Corporation so I think they wanted Fluke to focus on hand held DMMs, so Tektronix stopped making theirs. I do think Fluke picked up on some of Teks technology though. I need to look at the power on options;). Thank you for sharing!!

Yes I believe we are both correct. A current probe that can read DC current can retain a charge or magnetic field as it is not reset in a DC application. Monitoring AC current will reset the core as the current resets the core each cycle. So, a current probe capable of DC current measurement will have a degaussing or zero feature. If I do not move the probe, but zero it then take several measurements, I’ll eventually need to re-zero as it needs degaussing. Another way to see this is it might take several pressing of the zero button to actually get a good degaussing. Below is a nice note from Keysight. Thank you for this great comment! literature.cdn.keysight.com/litweb/pdf/N2893-97004.pdf?id=2003257

@@KissAnalog Ah, of course there's that. Good point.

Thank you!

I really like that idea! I’ve used them side by side in other videos but not in a video meant to review them side by side - great idea!!!

Thank you!

Thanks for the feedback! I’ll do that very soon;)

Yes, if the current is a sine wave it will show it that way. Thanks for asking;)

Yes you can connect this to any scope. It is just a simple BNC connector. Great question - thank you!

This probe sets up as 10x or 100x. Nice for the money for sure;)

It is pretty good and is focused on simulation. What level of book would you like? I’ve read or own most of them;). I’m using the Panasonic GH4. What do you think?

@@KissAnalog the video looks solid and the focusing is on point. I like it. I really want an introductory book but at the same time something practical I can apply. And grow from there to make a more complicated power supply .

My specialty is power supply design. I’ve had to do a lot of videos on my equipment and building my so I’m only starting on my power supply design videos.

@@KissAnalog I am really fascinated by power electronics, both switching and linear. I had a chance to go intern at Tesla and they were using some resonant converters for their cars and its all great stuff, though a bit advanced for me, nevertheless power electronics is something I really wish to master or at least become proficient with. I also love digital stuff and microcontrollers, that is the focus of 90% of my videos only because its easy for me , but the power electronics stuff I really want to learn and build my own. Everytime I search youtube for "Build a power supply" the common thing to see is people using prebuilt power supplies and attaching a pot and a volt meter screen and throwing it in an enclosure and there you go "i built a power supply". I have been concidering taking a course in California with "Ridley engineering" where they teach you how to make a switching power supply down to winding your own inductors. But its $2000 so im in the process of saving up for that.

That is great! I see you are really interested, and have done your homework. I hope to teach power design, and how to design magnetics as well. I’m going to build on videos until people watching these will eventually become experts! I’ll keep it simple, but with each step, the depth of understanding will become quite high.

I have used a Rogowski coil, but I haven't built one. I am interested in trying though;) I did a video on 'Methods of measuring an Inductor'. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_i-6ses16ZQ.html Let me know if this helps...

Fried Mule thanks -that’s funny! It would be nice to have gear given to me by the big boy equipment guys - but I guess I’ll have to keep buying my own;). I actually do have a storage to empty out where I have lots of older equipment. Maybe I should give it away to my viewers...? I probably have extra Tektronix multimeters that I could give away. I need to find some way to do that. I’ll do a video on lab equipment for amp and ps work - and why it would be needed.

@@KissAnalog Both things a great idea, about giving gear away, maybe you can let people pay the postage upfront via PayPal and get your great gear for that "price"? It will make it free for you and insane cheap for those who are lucky:-)

Fried Mule that’s a great idea! Now I have to come up with a method on how to choose the recipient:)

@@KissAnalog hmm what about if you make a small video with what you wich to give away. Then can those who has been subscribed before that video, within 24 hours write in the comment the unit they would like to have, if more the one are burning for the same unit, they get a number in that order they commented, lets say it is 7 subscribers. You then select a random number between 1 and 7 and that number wins. :-)

Fried Mule that sounds like a great idea - thanks!

GW Instek actually made the Tektronix Power Supply;)

I got a deal like that but was an Owon current probe. I’m sorry about your trouble - keep us posted on how it turns out. Thank you.

Amazon had them send me the right one Sunday, now I’m just waiting for UPS to pick up the wrong one. I put it through its paces Sunday and it seems at least as good as the one I got in my Uscope kit from aeswave. I was able to get really clean traces on things like fuel injectors, ignition coils , and my fuel pump. I wanted one with a bnc connector to go with my new Owon scopemeter which for the money is not bad at all. It has a nice clear display and enough detail to pick out thigs like a pintle hump on an injector.

That's great - I'm happy to hear that Amazon helped with that. I kept my Owon current probe too long to return it - but I think I was kind of happy to keep it so that I could see if I could make some improvements - hopefully just chaining value of components and desoldering bad connections;) What the heck is a Pringle hump;) That sounds like something very specialized!

A Pintle Hump is the slight change in current in a fuel injector when the injector pintle passes through the solenoid winding core on closure. If nothing else its an indication of physical movement in an injector. Also, with a current probe and scope I can get an indication of the health of any commutator driven dc motor like the fuel pump and cooling fans by the commutator humps riding on the DC. In fact I was having weird heat related problems and when I scoped the current on the cooling fan I found about half the commutator segments were not being used. The fan ran smooth but was not moving its rated CFM.

Thanks for that great info - very interesting!

Thanks for this feedback! I agree, Hantek's customer service doesn't seem to be home;) I wiggle the button when it gets stuck, and I agree that the cord exiting the meter does not have strain relief, so I'm careful with it. But, it does seem to work great for the price;)

@@KissAnalog Spot on... for DIY with intermittent use it does the job 😎🤩

Inductors like that can hold a residual magnetic bias after heavy current flow. I suspect the "degaussing" is also resetting what the probe thinks zero is.

I think it probably does have turns on the core. Great question Ken! Thanks!

Maybe I should get one and try it. Great to hear from you!

Sounds like you are about to have fun:) Most scopes will do both AC or DC coupling, but if the scope can only do DC the probe should still work. Thanks for the question.

@@KissAnalog thank you. It is to look at the wave form that my ac tig welder is putting out. The oscilloscope im thinking of ordering is just a cheap pc based unit dc coupling only. When i also measure voltages with the regular probe i think all will be ok as it has a 10x probe and 35v max input on the oscilloscope. But im new to all this, so far all i know about oscilloscopes is from from resding and watching videos like yours.

I appreciate you!!

@KissAnalog I appreciate you Eddie.

Thanks my Canadian friend;)

@KissAnalog I appreciate you even more haha. I'm trying to get ahold of a guy for an estate sale so I can buy stuff and the fucker won't even answer and I told him I'm serious about making a purchase of a set of speakers and a specific old receiver and amp.

No, unfortunately I don’t have one of those cool meters:( Thanks for commenting.

Wow - do you actually have an arrow on yours? I had to use a power supply to check;) Thanks for your feedback!

@@KissAnalog No, i drew my arrow like you did.

I think that's so funny that they left that off;) Not bad product at all for the price. Have you had good luck with yours?

@@KissAnalog Yes, it works pretty well for the price. I wish it had better low current performance. I would like to see 1mV/mA range, It can't measure 20mA because the 2mV output is in the noise.

The killer for me with these is the battery life. They're always flat when I need one. We have Pico probes which look the same as these. Great for testing your car alternator on the fly perhaps.

Everyone needs a hobby ;)

Thank you! Cheers!

LOL - what they don't know wont hurt them;)

Who do you think does all the amp repairs ;)