How to use an oscilloscope / What is an oscilloscope / Oscilloscope tutorial

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Tutorial on the basics of what an oscilloscope is, how it works and how to use it. The oscilloscope is an electronic "time machine"!
Siglent SDS1072CML Bench Oscilloscope (Bandwidth 70MHz)

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In this tutorial / lesson for beginners I cover the following topics on oscilloscopes:

* What is an oscilloscope?
* Oscilloscope basics
* Oscilloscope tutorial
* How does an oscilloscope work?
* How to use an oscilloscope.
* How to read a signal on an oscilloscope screen.
* Time base / scale, seconds per division (s/div), signal scale in volts per division (v / div)
* Horizontal position adjustment, vertical position adjustment, trigger point adjustment.
* high frequency signals, low frequency signals, the period of a signal, square wave signals, pulse width modulated signals (PWM), sine wave signals (sinusoidal), measuring a signal.
* Multimeter comparison to oscilloscope
* Charging a capacitor over time
* Reference / calibration signal
* Oscilloscope probes

[bradyjackson]

Thank you for your tutorials! its very generous of people like you to volunteer their time and knowledge to help people become more educated. its free to educate yourself with the internet (well almost) but it takes someone putting it online for others!

[saam]

I'm at work without speakers/headphones and these close captions are hysterical.

[thedukeofmonkland]

You turned something that looked so complicated into something useful and that makes perfect sense. The zoom analogy sinched it for me. Brilliant. Thank you so much. I’m buying one

[PowderMill]

👍🏻 Excellent presentation! Thank you.
I recently had a CVA (stroke) and lost nearly all of my memory / memories.
Hardest hit were tech matters, so I’m try to regain much of that which was lost.

This was great and I’m about to head back to your channel to look for dB explanation and spectrum analyzer use.
And.. hopefully duplexer and filter tuning with a spectrum analyzer with tracking generator.

Thanks again.

[CurrexIsPro]

The first few minutes of this video is extremely valuable and insightful. I appreciate you putting the time together to make this... for people like me who have a hard time initially grasping concepts but after I learn them is much easier to apply them in practice

[cuppen]

Thank you very much! This comment section is extremely respectful and beautiful. It's quite refreshing to see this in Youtube! Your oscilloscope tutorial was the best, sir. Please keep making more of them.

[soundcog]

The video is an excellent introduction to Oscilloscopes. Thank you for taking the time to enable those of us who are interested in electronics get a footing on why an oscilloscope is a necessary tool to have.

[beathiswon]

Brilliant!! I'm taking an electronics class in school and this is so much more helpful and clear than my instructors. Learned more in 32 mins. than what has taken 6 hours of instruction and practice to learn there. Thank you.

[jeffcurrie]

Im in auto diagnostics and this helps alot. The firing of plugs, injection of fuel, time between these two things alone is a major factor in finding a problem that normally would be very hard to detect. OBD diagnostics with fuel trims uses alot of these formulas. Fantastic. Thank you

[monteefrazee]

Thank you Thank you for explaining so thoroughly an instrument I thought I would never understand. This video should be included with all beginner electronics class courses....By far the best trainer i have ever listened to.

[jachrist]

I was certain I wasn't going to understand much because it seemed so complicated. But Wow to my surprise every few mins watching I thought "Ok that made sense" "Yes i get what he means"...until finally omg I understood the entire video and comprehend the purpose and basic operation of this device 😆 So thank you for sharing☺

[allastairlee]

This is an extremely dry topic that you've explained so simply that even I now understand it. Yours is the best oscilloscope explanation video on YouTube. Thank you.

[rayhenderson]

It's great when someone can show you how to do something without getting too technical and using words a lot would not understand, I've watched every second of your video and really enjoyed it. I have bought an oscilloscope very similar to yours (Hantek DS02D15) and thanks to you I now have a good idea how to use it. Keep up the good work and once again Thank You.

[celtichongy]

You are doing a tremendous job to share your knowledge for all of us hobbyists or industry engineers alike. Keep up the great work! thanks.

[davidcrawford]

I had no idea what an oscilloscope was used for, now I do. Thank you for taking the time to create this video.

[stewedapple]

I was shocked to see how many videos that you have uploaded, looks like hundreds or even thousands of hours of recording and editing!! Love your tutorials, extremely clear, very well explained and great camera usage!! Thank you!

[mjlorton]

My pleasure,  thanks for the feedback. I have started looking at older analog scopes and I certainly want to own and play with one in the future. Cheers, Martin.

[Jjacobs]

You have a SOLID understanding of this stuff. I feel like I'm going to learn a truckload of info from this channel. Thanks a ton for such an amazing explanation!

[mjlorton]

Thanks for the feedback. Glad to hear the video helped. Cheers, Martin.

[PCSolutions]

Great tutorial! I've been watching your channel for some time now, and just got my first oscilloscope. Your knowledge of electronics has been invaluable. Thanks so much!