Hantek 6052BE PC Based USB Digital Storage Oscilloscope with 2 Channels 50MHz Bandwidth 150MSa/s

Good cheap scope. Good that the software works on windows xp 7 10 only slight minor is the display update is not quite as fast as I would like. But signal speed is fine. So good for the money.

I spent hours trying to load the driver for windows 8.1 it simply refused to load, telling me that there was no digital signature.Finally I think I figured out that the driver digital signature had expired in May 2014 (the driver that you download from the Hantek site fpr the 6022BE) I was trying to load it yesterday on July 11th, 2014. So I decided to to set my computer system date to March 1st 2014 and to my surprise, it allowed me to load the driver and the scope now works on my Windows 8.1 Also I was able to set my system date back to normal without any obvious adverse effects. Is there another way around the problems such as changing the digital signature date? I have no idea. I just know that what I did appears to work fine without any obvious nasty side effects. The Hantek site is not great. I do think they need to establish a European/US presence especially if they want to dominate the market. As for the scope itself, for the price its excellent. I bought it as a replacement to an old tektronix 10 Mhz. I use it to look at the general qualitative shape of wave forms in the 1Mhz to 10 Mhz range. I also use two channels for alignments (matching the phase position of one signal to another) it's absolutely fine for the job.If you want to measure rise/fall times on fast wave forms then you may need the higher bandwidth model but for my needs this is really an excellent purchase. Oh and it did come with two good quality probes that have a 1x/10x switch on the probe handles.

Just wanted to leave a quick review, after reading most comments that state this is not compatible with windows 10 I decided to buy as worst case I know I could sort itWhen it arrived I did not use the CD, went directly online to the manufacturers website, downloaded the software - inside the software section is drivers, click in there and you will find specifically windows 10 drivers. Go into device manager on the PC, click on the unknown device with it connected, select update drivers, select the folder you downloaded and it works. That is it, very simpleAs for the system, CH1 is quite clean signal, CH2 isn't as clean and stable as 1 but that is fine and a known issue. For what I need for automotive fault finding hooked up to a toughpad its great, note that you need a minimum of 2 free USBs to power and signal read from the deviceWould have been nice to have a storage case but I have one and I am pleased with the purchase. Well presented in the box and does what it should - I am guessing all those with issues may only have the CD as the windows 10 driver has been available since 22/09-2015...

This drops short of 5 stars for the trigger function. One of the great points of DSOs is the ability to take a singe shot of a waveform and by setting the trigger point at a specific horizontal position one can study the smallest part of a large complex waveform. This scope doesn't seem to have any control of the horizontal trigger position. Yes, you'd have to say it's pretty limited compared to a fully fledged bench DSO but then again it's less than fifty quid! I needed one urgently to look at a PWM control line on a car. No problem at all - it even has a one click check box to read out the duty cycle. Value for money - more than 5 stars!

When I hook up my test leads to the test signal I can get a perfectly square wave but it has a fair amount of what looks like ripple at the top and the bottom of the wave even after calibrating the probes. I have tested this up to 2 MHz square wave and it seems ok if you ignore the ripple.I have no idea what I'm doing so it could be operator faultbut I doubt it.There is an open source program and firmware for this which claims it can fix the noise problems, check out "open hantek"

My 6022BE arrived yesterday, well packed and with two probes, as advertised (one is under the packaging in the box). It seems to work well but there is persistent noise of about 8.5 mV. This is a known problem, the noise being generated within the unit. I'm sure this will not stop me getting my money's worth for the use I bought it for. The PC side of the software is generally mediocre but there is an active community supporting this instrument and there is 3rd part software, currently in beta, which provides more functionality than the manufacturers software. See: http://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/hantek-6022be-20mhz-usb-dso/ (for the software skip to page 43 or so). Perhaps once the warranty runs out I might add internal screening and decoupling to reduce the noise.

This must be the only oscilloscope in the world with no AC Coupling! OK, I wasn't expecting Tektronix for this price but to have no AC coupling is stupid. I built an in-line BNC Coupler to get around this but it's still odd and something you should be aware of if you want to use this for power supply work. Software is so-so but there are some good open-source reworkings of it.I suppose OK for the price but a proper second-hand scope would be a better bet I reckon.

For 50 pounds this scope is very good value. It works well and is good enough for audio and automotive fault investigations.It's shortcomings are well documented in other reviews. The only annoying limitation is the limited gain range : best granularity 4mV restricts its usefulness. A great shame they didn't spend a bit more on another preamp stage to reduce the granularity.