Need Help from Electrical Gurus

[SmokingRocks]

Yea the 2204 isn’t the highest bandwidth but it’s more than sufficient for a weekend mechanic to view signals on our cars.

if I relied on mechanicing as my primary source of income I would’ve dropped more money to move up their line for more bandwidth.

The best thing about pico is their huge online automotive scope test database. It’ll set up the scope for you (automotive versions), it instructs you on where to place probes and provides sample waveforms for normal conditions as well as all the fault conditions. Which DRASTICALLY increases Diagnostic efficiency

I’ve used my 2204 on ~10 different vehicles that needed scope work and it was the tool that helped me solve all of those problems. Of course you have to know the limitations of your tools which I’m well aware of. But from my perspective the 2204a with 10mhz bandwidth and 1Gs/s sample rate is plenty.

I’d also surmise that it’s easier to set up for a ride along to capture real world data than your bench top unit

Doesn’t mean I don’t respect the OG bench resting o scopes

 

[SmokingRocks]

I will agree that if you need the fine detail to capture complex canbus communications you need more resolution than the base level of pico’s range.

 

[Malleus]

Yea the 2204 isn’t the highest bandwidth but it’s more than sufficient for a weekend mechanic to view signals on our cars.

if I relied on mechanicing as my primary source of income I would’ve dropped more money to move up their line for more bandwidth.

The best thing about pico is their huge online automotive scope test database. It’ll set up the scope for you (automotive versions), it instructs you on where to place probes and provides sample waveforms for normal conditions as well as all the fault conditions. Which DRASTICALLY increases Diagnostic efficiency

I’ve used my 2204 on ~10 different vehicles that needed scope work and it was the tool that helped me solve all of those problems. Of course you have to know the limitations of your tools which I’m well aware of. But from my perspective the 2204a with 10mhz bandwidth and 1Gs/s sample rate is plenty.

I’d also surmise that it’s easier to set up for a ride along to capture real world data than your bench top unit

Doesn’t mean I don’t respect the OG bench resting o scopes

For sure, I wouldn't put my benchtop unit in the front seat for a ride!

 

[Malleus]

I was also looking long and hard at this Hantek:

for general automotive, especially for the 80 series.

 

[SmokingRocks]

Me too but the sample rate is worse than the pico 2204 by a good bit which a bunch of YouTube reviewers were showing had a very noticeable impact on the quality of waveform to the point where you could miss something