Owon HDS242S Oscilloscope AWG Multimeter 3in1 Review & Teardown | Voltlog 380

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[antibrevity]

2:25: Recommends adding screen protector to prevent scratches.
Milliseconds later: peels off factory screen protector ;).

[michaelinglis]

This was an excellent break down! My multimeter died on me right when I was about to finally buy an actual scope. So i went from needing an Osciloscope to needing a new MM and Scope. So my choice was to either buy a Fluke 115 and then buy a cheap single channel scope later or buy the OWON HDS242S. I know that as far as the multimeter is concerned the Fluke would have been a much better buy. But since im only using it for home use (i build guitars, guitar pedals and do guitar amp, pedal and guitar mods etc.) i could probably get away with a 20MHz bandwidth scope if i needed to. And as far as the meter goes i still have my first meter that i use as a backup. Its really basic and can measure capacitance or temperature (which is good for calibrating my Soldering Station so ill have to get another thermocouple device) but its accurate and built in such a way that when something goes wrong I can fix it unlike the meter i bought 2 years ago that just died on me. The one that just "died" started draining my batteries and i traced it back to a really really poor unreliable switch design. And even if i took the time to fix it id always be worried its going to kill my tenavolts or start a damn fire. So no more cheap meters for me. I might not be able to afford a Fluke 87 but i can at least get something that should be more reliable. If i have any issues with the OWON ill just get the Fluke 115 and a cheap single channel scope. Anyways, this really was an excellent break down and i found it very helpful and informative. Great job!!

[jerryconrad]

I have HDS272 purchased on 5/2021. It came with V1.5.0 . I emailed OWON
factory and received/updated to 1.7.0 .

[antibrevity]

Thanks for the review. I would like to have seen various waveforms near the max frequencies of this unit to see how realistic its ratings are. The refresh rate example was valuable as update rate is always a critical test for these handheld units, but that's the only real oscilloscope test that we got to see.

[graealex]

Thank you. Right now the HDS242 (no S) is less than 100 EUR incl. VAT in Germany - so an absolute bargain.

[radlrambo]

just because you asked: I just bought the HDS242 (no s so no function generator) for 99 Euro Bucks and it has FW 6.1.0 preloaded. A very nice device with a lot of features for a very low price. So now I can analyze stuff connected to mains without accidentally frying the mains connected scope through a short

[Zack-fusn]

Hello, can you use the multimeter leads to input and see the sinewave from an electrical socket? I've been searching everywhere for this answer as i'm new to oscilloscopes.

[Junio]

I got this oscilloscope. It is kinda slow but got the job done.

[peterm]

thank you so much, great vid, although, some of the comments here about showing oscilloscope at close to limits stability is a major plus, thanks for your efforts, great work.

[arnolduk]

Would of be useful to see how well the frequency bandwidth could reach with a stable reading and if it could read a 50Mhz square signal.

[stevenspmd]

A shrouded BNC to banana adapter would have been a nice addition. Not sure why they are so expensive.

[Denis_Borovik]

Занимательная вещица! спасибо за показ внутренних органов.

[nhg]

Hi, I bought the OWON HDS272 oscilloscope and I want to use it to adjust gain in a car amplifier to detect clipping, I play a 1000 Hz test tone and I increase even to the end, the waveform only increases and does not change to a square, I would really appreciate it if you could help me tune the oscilloscope?

[geirendre]

I bought the Owon HDS242 back in April 2021 for USD 119,
it has version 1.8.0 of the firmware on it.
Would be nice to be able to upgrade it.

[glencarey]

Great video. Please do a video on owon hds272s software demo showing Windows PC features when connected to Scope.

[juergenscholl]

Do you know wether the given max input voltage of 400 volt refers to X10 attenuation or is it the X1 value. I only found conflicting information about it...
While the input terminals clearly say 400V the manual relates this value to an X10 attenuation??

[dicernir]

hello, do you know if this oscilloscope can detect voltage transisions clearly for communications such as spi, iic, uart, can, standart 802.3? I also require it to measure injection voltage to a dc stepper motor. Do you think it is enough for me or do I require one with a higher frequency and sampling

[melike]

OWON HDS2102S vs Tektronix THS720A
Which of these two devices would make sense to buy?

[ssarpakai]

Does it have the feature to see the duty cycle?

[Sobakin]

My HDS242 has firmware v1.8.0, ordered on banggood at 1st june of 2021