Should have watched this back in college T-T everyone in the class are just turning knobs hoping the signal output that the professor wants will magically come out lolololokok
Lol i came here for this exact reason! I have a lab and was barely introduced to the OC. It’s hard to grasp the concepts of what this device is doing without being shown what should be displayed and why. The inclusion of the DMM and comparing the values of one source on both was extremely helpful!
Oh my god, thank you, this is the super dumbed down introduction that I needed. I build guitar effects pedals and I'm at the point of buying an oscilloscope but nobody can dumb it down like this for me, so I appreciate it. I would love advanced lessons like these in the future. You and your brother are great at explaining things to ADHD autistics like me that need things to be visual and for the info to be walked through with some handholding.
This is a fantastic video. I have been watching other vids about scope basics, and people usually make them too simplistic. I love how you ran through principles, tools, and practices to go from high level understanding of the concept, down into some very specific applications. Would you consider doing more scope videos, explaining more of the principles and practical applications?
I really appreciate this! I've always been kinda scared of electronics, but now with arduino I'm in love with the projects I can do and after watching a lots of tutorials, the oscilloscope was a tool that kept confusing me, until now! thanks!
Excellent intro, and the narrator is great! Good pace, well edited. I'm getting back into electronics after a long time, and I used to have an old Tektronics scope. I just purchased a new scope (coincidentally, the same model as in your video) and just trying to learn the basics. I had no idea the cap came off the probe!
Thank you for comparing the displayed results on the oscilloscope to ones on the DMM- it was super helpful. I didn’t understand what was meant by “the DMM measures in rms (root mean square)” before this 🙏 *also I absolutely loved the bit at the end with the music!
I'm not sure why RU-vid decided recommend this video, but I'm glad that I got to watch it. I've been hold off from buy a 'scope because of the implied complexity of the device. I know that this video is 2 years old now, but thank you so much for putting this one out! It really takes some of the anxiety away from using an oscilloscope.
I know this was posted some time ago, but for beginners, you should explain the correct why to measure high voltage. In your example, measuring the AC house voltage can be particularly dangerous if your ground probe is not connected to the neutral. Even testing the Arduino (while connected to the pc via usb cable) can also lead to a potential short. Thanks for the informative video btw. PS this would be a great comment to pin.
Now that is a pretty good introduction to The “O” Scope. When explaining the “O” Scope I have used the analogy of a visual volt meter that measures volts and Frequency.
Beautiful tutorial. Thanks for the nice introduction. But I think a 5v square wave like the one shown in 7:30 will produce an RMS voltage 3.54 V and average (mean) voltage of 2.5 V. But in the video, you said the average voltage will be about 2.5 v.
"I was today years old" when I got my first Oscilliscope, a Siglent SHS800. This was an excellent beginning tutorial. I hope you or somebody will go on and talk about more advanced topics like triggering.
Been working on oscillators, basic Ned in the primer level circuitry, But now I need to know more after adding some tanks to the circuit. I've ordered a two channel digital oscilloscope and this video is invaluable. Thank you very much.
yes. Well done! Want to see more videos like this. Ideally about how to test various things in audio circuits, synths, pre-amps, tape machines, digital outboard effects from the 80s and 90s and the like. That would be amazing. Also great to know would be what kind of (affordable) Oscilloscope (perhaps with some model suggestions) will have the right set of features for specific kind of testing. In my case audio equipment.
could you please add some information how to check high voltage if there is a common negative/ ground situation........ and whether need an isolation transformer in situation like this?
I've been trying to learn as much as I can before I burn up my new scope. Thank you for making a nice an neat video and showing a few examples. Very helpful.
Learn how to use an Oscilloscope in the oscilloscopes basics tutorial! It's a great tool to have around your workshop! You can grab the Siglent SDS1104X-E here: amzn.to/2MEohvG
Thankyou so much for this video. I have just purchased my first scope, I've wanted one since I learned of them long ago LOL. I'm getting back into electronics, and I know want I want to use the scope for but seeing that I've never been able to have one I really don't know anything about them at all. I hope you keep making videos on how to use a scope, I will keep monitoring your channel. thankyou
Super helpful..... first time I'm seeing comparison with DSO and multimeter readings. Great idea and clears every doubt. Keep uploading such more videos
Very useful video, thanks! I just got a mini DSO, but it's been about 8 years since I last played with one. I appreciate the info and the demo diagnostics, all very concise.
Digital oscilloscopes integrate the most common protocols, except that manufacturers restrict their devices. If you want to unlock a protocol, you must enter a license key provided by the manufacturer into the device interface (the price of which is prohibitive for an individual, especially if they want several protocols), which is calculated from the serial number. For an after-sales service, an R&D department of a company, or a training center, this is not a problem, since they can negotiate the price of the license keys, if they have a large enough fleet of oscilloscopes of the same brand.
Thanks a lot for the two examples with the Arduino and the C64 SID. There is a lot of stuff on YT explaining oscilloscope basics but almost nothing showing examples on how it is used in "real world use cases".
Thank you for this video. I just started a new job where I will be working with industrial (480 volt) vari speed drives a really need to learn how to 1 use an oscilloscope correctly and 2, not blow myself or the scope up. Boss said he'd write me up if I managed to blow off any of my fingers...
Very cool. When you brought out the Commodore 64 I went back to 1982 when I used to punch in entire games, record them onto tape cassette and then load them up again so I could play them 😀
Great explanation, but as I know, not all oscilloscopes have possibility to measuring 220V. In this case the AC should be somehow reduced? via transformer for instance...
i heard about osc. in words. i saw it today and how it works. only i am in touch with multi. but i plan to own it to my shop in future. thank you a lot for your values ! Jesus bless you more and much
You should never connect the ground lead of the probe to a actual Earth ground. It can fry the probe or even the scope or circuit. You want to make sure the ground is isolated. Unless of course you have a advanced scope with isolation probes or the scope itself has an isolation feature.
Had a C64 which filled the screen with @ ($00). It should have been SPACE ($20). So I concluded that the RAM chip for bit 5 was defect. No oscilloscope needed 😉
@@wlorenz65 Mine's the "?out of memory error in 0" problem so I've had to take a crash course in soldering and am just replacing chips one at a time. Would be nice if I could confirm if the chips I bought work as expected before I use them though :P
Just subscribed, great video, thank you so much for making his I am just starting to use Oscilloscopes and I have the same brand, this was a fantastic video for me to feel more comfortable with the device, I will play with an Arduino too and take some measurements
Thanks for this, I learnt a lot. I'm going to check your other videos to see if you have anything on safety with an oscilloscope. I've just bought one and don't wan to blow it up!
This is kind videos I like because I have had this 400.00 oscilloscope for awhile but im really not sure what I can test .I'm very good with electronics with out it but I know I can be better thanks
That was really practical , understandable and helpful . Could you make another video on , say you have two 555 timers in a circuit , IC 1 is an astable 50% duty cycle square wave feeding one side of a Push Pull amp and the output from pin 3 also into pin 2 IC2 which is a monostable as a one shot feeding the other side of the push pull timed to supply a matching negative going square wave . How do you use that oscilloscope to display the two wave forms from 1C1 & IC2 on the screen at the same time so that it can be seen if the two wave forms do indeed match up .
It would seem that only a digital scope could display the waveform of interest such that the sweep triggering event always occurs at the center of the grid or wherever the horizontal control is set. No? I suspect the digital scope does not display signal behavior in real time. No? At 5:24 why do you have to connect the ground on the probe to earth ground on device being tested as the oscilloscopes probe already internally connects to earth ground for purpose of establishing a reference for making the measurement?
As a very green noob to electronics there are a lot of videos on oscilloscopes but nobody that I’ve watched has shone how to make sure everything is grounded in their workshop. Was curious as how to set up the space before investing in equipment.
Can i measure 3phase electric 380Vac directly hook on an oscilloscope? Or need to decrease it first? And with siglent SDS1104xu, can we show up 3 wave on the screen ?
Just seen this video, love it, i am just getting in to electronics at (57), i am looking to repair vintage record players and music centres, i was wondering if you could do one on testing the parts these would have in and show how you know if they are faulty.. thanks again, love your channel
we have an old CRT oscilloscope at work and its existence makes me nervous like if i look at it wrong ill mess it up but i also wanna feed an audio signal into it for fun! im conflicted lol
Won't do it any harm. The only reason you might want to leave it alone is if someone normally uses it. If you insert a stereo plug with bared wire ends into your phone's audio jack, that'll give you 2 channels to play with. As well as music there are lots of sample tones on YT so you can, for example, read a simple sine wave.
Nice introduction to oscilloscopes... starting to wonder if I could utilize one myself. Seeing you probe that one pin from the SID chip to get all three voices output wave... I suppose those videos that show each SID voice's wave separately can only be done through software playing SID files.
Hi, I need to check if Copy Generation Management System - Analog (CGMS-A) is enabled on an analog output STB. Can an oscilloscope detect these waves? I read CGMS-A embeds in the media CCI in the vertical blanking interval of the video signal (lines 20 or 21) if that helps at all?
Fantastic video, IM a Union Electrician, going through the apprenticeship. We are studying Digital Electronics and Analog. The oscilloscope we will be tested on. Can you make a video about Boolean Algebra, AND LOGIC OR LOGIC. Thanks man.
Very informational even for us not so techie people...thank you...But what caught my attention most was your shirt...whose head is that supposed to be....
Does it go from 0 to 5 volts and no time passed? Instant verticle line means no time. Is that in really true in science that a voltage can go from 0 to 5 instantaneously or is it that our oscillicope can not measure such small unit of time. In reality is it a jump or the verticle line should really be leaning a little to the right to show it took time to go from 0 to 5 volts?
