Keysight DSOX1204G Oscilloscope Review

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The Keysight DSOX1204G is a 4-channel oscilloscope with 70-200 MHz bandwidth (depending on the options selected). It is one of Keysight's entry-level scopes and could be a great addition to any professional engineer's workbench or for universities. However, it is more expensive than most other entry-level oscilloscopes, as you're paying for the Keysight name and customer support.

In the video, I cover some of the oscilloscope's features, talk about what it might be used for, and give my opinions on it. Considering it is an entry-level oscilloscope, I compare it to 2 other entry-level oscilloscopes: the Rigol DS1054Z and the Digilent Analog Discovery 2.

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Nice review! Your summary helped me in terms of buying advice. I went through so much reading and review videos (Keysight, Siglent, Rigol, etc) but couldn't make up my mind. Your summary made things clearer for me. - Thank you!

toms

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rafa_dzto

Nice video! Comments on a couple items:
1 Mpts per channel = 4 Mpbs total. Not the biggest around but generally not a complaint we hear from folks.
For the ADC, it's also important to look at total noise floor and "effective number of bits" aka ENOB. Looking at the ADC spec alone can be very misleading. There's a deeper video on our channel about it.
Calibration is mainly about traceability requirements for certifications or other design & test requirements.

KeysightLabs

I like your videos. They do not make my eyes glaze over. Very interesting and understandable for a beginner. I also like your Sparkfun videos. Keep 'em coming. Thanks!

jtbranman

I have won one of these dsox1240Gs from a giveaway. I found this very helpful to see what it can do, thank you!

jamesrooney

Finally you got an awesome scope, glad to know. You can now start working on some awesome stuff waiting for your next video

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psd

One thing worth noting is how fast these Keysight scopes are, unlike most digital abortions.

FryChicken

Got my new Keysight DSOX1202G today. Out of the box and looking at 60 Hz free space EMI in about 3 minutes; it is that easy to use. I spent months of intensive study trying to decide which scope to get and Keysight is a cut above the other entry-level scopes.
I haven't tried any of the others (Rigol, Siglent) so I cannot really say where this is superior to those but it's pretty solid. It also has genuine metering, a built-in voltmeter and frequency counter in addition to the computation of volts and frequency based on the sampled data (which they all have that capability). The built-in signal generator (function generator) was important selling point; Bode plots, FFT. The FFT works exceptionally well and easy enough to figure out without a college degree.

thomasmaughan

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zee-lab-electronics

Hello shawn, your video on the Keysight DSOX1204G is the first video I've seen of of any of your vids. Let me just comment that I am considering the DSOX1204G as well but not because it's a Keysight scope, though it's true they Keysight is the Rolls-Royce of scopes, at least for their more expensive models. In any case, one of the extremely useful features of the 1204G, and also of the less costy 1202G, is that both models can perform BODE plotting. Anyone who has created a BODE plot the usual way knows how time consuming and tedious it can be. And creating a POOR-MANS BODE PLOT is possible with even an ordinary analog scope, if you know how to do it. But imagine being able to create a real BODE plot, right on the scope's screen, with vertical and horizontal axis labeled with values, etc. and without any additional external gear is quite a feature to have and it can save a tremendous amount of time when trying to generate frequency amplitude response vs. frequency. Add to that the ability to take screen shots or transfer the pot or save it to a USB stick as well and it's akin to dying and going to heaven. So your comparison on the basis of price alone is not a true picture of what you're getting with the 1204G or the 1202G scopes. And I should state upfront that I don't work for Keysight. But I think It would have been instructive and a better comparison to mention the BODE plot measurement feature and perhaps demo it. In addition, though most digital scopes have an FFT function (some better than others) again, it would have been informative to sample a SQUARE wave and show how well the harmonics are resolved. Now if there's another video where you dig into the 1204G in depth I'm not aware of it, and I'd love to see it and know what the link is. Otherwise, thanks for a clean, straightforward and comprehensible review, without grunts, or other odd anomalies - and above all, without extremely annoying background music. Thanks, I look forward to your other videos.

DIYerGuy

Hello Shawn,

I am just curious whether you can set the input impedance to 50 Ohms. It's important because I am planning to play with analog 100MHz signals ...

maybe if you read this further ... I struggle with decision what's better...the Keysight DSO1202A or the Rigol MSO2202A ... both have 200MHz bandwith and 2Gs/s,
I am trying to figure out, which one has better resources for more precise FFT. For the Rigol they literally mention "1M/50ohm input", meanwhile for the Keysight
I cant find this expression in available doc ... and all my HF/RF experiments are linked to 50ohm.

So, if you still have the osci on your desk, could you check the options for the channel input settings ?

Thank you

vladimirsustek

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