I started watching EEVBlog by searching basic tutorials on UKposts years ago. Now I do electronics for a living (partially at least). More fundamentals! :)

Thanks for being an inspiration, Dave. You're a great teacher. I'm learning about electronics and you're a big help!

I just spent $400 for my first oscilloscope and I am loving learning how to use properly. Looking forward to your next video

0:20 the moldy meter. It measures the mold of a circuit.

You should totally sell kitchen appliances on those 30min tv commercials

Thank you Dave. This is one of the most valuable channels on UKposts. Great work!

1:10 - Upvoted just for the post-it note flipbook! Brilliant! :)

You are hands down the best teacher for electronics on this platform. Thank you for giving the world access to your knowledge! You also keep viewers interested and the information is easy to follow.

I don't often comment but thank you for making this video. Very informative for the new player. Thanks for keeping it real and demoing a hobbyist scope over a professional one.

Great stuff for beginners. Excellent production quality on the video too. Incredible good job, Dave!!

Your videos actually helped get me interested into electronics, planning on taking some classes to get the basics of electronics while in college.

THIS is great! Perfect level for my knowledge and I understood everything. Thank you so much!

Another fantastic video, clear, concise, factual and fun with it! Thanks again!

My DS1054z was delivered two days ago. Perfect timing, thanks. :) I will be troubleshooting a linear PSU soon.

Thanks Dave! Great video, just what I needed to get in to using oscilloscope!

I really enjoyed this video, even if it was basic information. I think it's great of Dave to do some basic videos to inspire the new casual electronics hobbiest and or children that want to get into the hobby. His enthusiasm and passion for electronics is wonderful and getting people excited to learn is what it's all about for videos like this. There are a ton of "how to use an oscilloscope videos on UKposts", but they don't have the entertainment value that draws people in. Great video Dave!

once again you have carefully and energetically explained something so that the layman can understand. So I subscribed. Thank you.

This is a great video. I am playing around with more electronics each week and your videos are very helpful. I want an oscilloscope now! Thanks EEVBlog!

Fantastic! I think starting right from the basics is a brilliant idea. I found this video very helpful, bonza!

Just got an oscilloscope this is a good intro so I actually know what I'm doing with it. Manual is great to tell me how to do things with it, but I need to know what things to do in the first place.

Yep. I also bought a DS1054Z after watching your reviews. Just as a Brymen 869s multimeter. Thanks for all your cool video's, really enjoying it!

More of these please! I really enjoyed them, even know there was nothing i didnt know! Good job

A video I've been waiting years for. Thanks!

Very clear, very crisp not too long. great video for beginners.

Now THIS is what I subscribed for. Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou.

Thanks a lot for this one Dave! Just started my Mechatronics Engineering study. Bloody usefull videos you've got.

Everything I've ever wanted to know about oscilloscopes (but was too afraid to ask)!! Thanks Dave!

It's therapeutic watching this, reminds me of when I got my first scope (an Owon) a few years ago now, and knew so little. Your how-not-to-blow-up-your-scope video was how I discovered your channel! I still know so little now, but I know way more than I did back then. ;) Sorry for breaking internet protocol and not moaning about how your video wasn't exactly what I personally wanted you to make for me...

I was looking for something for my second semester physics students to get a good introduction to oscilloscopes. This is perfect. Thanks.

ur the only person that can make electronics fun to learn.

This is the video I was too afraid to ask for! Cheers Dave

Perfect timing Dave, I just got my DS1054Z :D

I haven't used an oscilloscope in years and I have a job interview tomorrow where I'll be asked to use one. This is a great refresher. Cheers!

Thanks Dave, good into/tutorial on this subject.

Very good content, looking forward for the next one.

I know this is a older video but I wanted to thank you Dave for your channel. I bought a Rigol 2072a after watching all you o-scope stuff. Was looking at a owon all in one thing but your advice was to buy individual gear. So I have my Rigol scope a fluke 8050 bench meter, a owon handheld (till I get yours) and a cheap power supply. I love most of it but adding as I go. Thanks again for all your work to keep us informed.

back to basic. thanks dave

Thanks! I want to use one with synths and this was a nice video to cover all bases of the basics :)

Great introduction, going into the motivation for using oscilloscopes. I'll have my lab students watch this before the in-class intro activity.

The DSO allowed me to see a glitch occur at a very slow speed. This helped me fix my circuit issue that I could not see with the analog scope

You have a fantastic, clear, an concise way to explain things, i enjoy your videos very much, I use scopes since 1990 and have a couple of digital ones, but still enjoy your presentation, please keep at it, you are very good.

Dave, Excellent "Top Notch" explanation. Been using o-scopes for years and now have the DS1054z but didn't know about the ROLL function!! thanks so much and PLEASE continue on with the O-scope tutorials. It would be awesome if you could do another tutorial and dig into some of the other menu items available and help us to understand other essential uses and settings on the DS1054z. thanks!! dwight

Alas!, a video on O-scopes I can understand, and thanks Dave.

Thanks, Dave. Great explanation.

Great video. Just side note, this is why I love analog meters too, I can watch a cap charge etc...

Wow... I`ve wtched a 'thousands' videos to learn about the oscillocope. This one is the best

great video, cant wait for more on the Oscilloscope

Awesome. First actual examples of use I can understand. Thank you.

God bless you and your channel!

Hi Dave, I'm happy to see the Oscilloscope tutorial. I spent two years in college as an EE major before switching to and graduating as a Comp Sci major. I still pursue electronics as a hobby and would love to see more of these basics videos. best, James

Hi Dave, great video and hopefully you'll follow up and make it a great series. I just thought I'd add some points in from the point of view of a beginner like myself: 1) When a scope mentions bandwidth (Mhz), I used to think of it as the fastest frequency signal that it could display correctly. It's the fastest signal it can monitor while being 3dB down. In most cases the scopes bandwidth is a little higher. So anyone buying a 50Mhz scope looking to monitor max 50mhz signals won't get a 1:1 reproduction. Maybe this is common knowledge, but as a newbie I thought it was good to know. 2) Since the Digital scopes sample the input, as a newbie I thought that sample rate was going to be the same no matter what time base you use or how many channels you have on. But of course the sample rate is a function of both of those (and maybe other things?). Again I was surprised at this and just shows how little I really know about these majestic devices. Do you know of any other newbie traps like this? Perhaps you can incorporate them into your next videos and give us newbies a chance to catch up and buy something decent for a first scope, thanks!

Love the DS1054Z !! Great video !!!

In the first few minutes i have learned something about oscilloscopes. Thank you.

I only want to say thank you for this tutorial!

Excellent video

Your videos are pure gold!

My favorite scope. I used to carry one of these when I was an FE years ago.

This was very easy/well explained, thanks.

thank you for these basic intro videos

Great video! Looking forward to the next one. Very useful :)

thanks for this, your educational stuff is great :)

Very exciting stuff here just can't get enough. Tell me more.

Thank you so much eevblog, the first time I came in contact with electronics was when I was on Amazon and they had a Arduino kit on sale I told my dad I would like to have it and he got it for me and now it is nearly my b-day and I'm going to setup a lab, and the 330$ lab video you did helped me tremendously and now I'm here watching why and how to use an oscilloscope and it's all thanks to you. Have a great day EEVBLOG.😀😀

Excellent video Dave. I don't think there's a limit to these so if you could just go around your lab making other introduction videos that would be great :D.

Eye opening and great ! thanks

Thanks for this basic video. Thumbs up!

Thanks for the info, I picked up an analog scope a few years ago for $150...I wanted a digital, but couldn't afford one at the time...but mine (a higher up Tektronics) does measure voltage and hz. I look forward to this series to get the most out of mine.

Oscilloscopes were still a bit confusing for me, and this video has really helped fill in the blanks. Thank you Dave!

You are the best tutor ever...😊

I've been watching your videos for probably about a year now, Dave. I don't know much about electronics but I find them fascinating, and have been enjoying learning somewhat the same way your learn another language by just immersing yourself in it. This kind of video is so perfect for me!

Thanks, Ive been waiting for this. Please do a couple more Scope tutorials.

I know a little about electronics. By watching these videos I will gain more knowledge. Thanks.

the most awesome way to utilize dave-CAD! Genius!

What I would give for video like that 15 years ago... Keep it up Dave :D

Great introduction to the Oscilloscope.

Beautiful explanation. Thank you. For me, I am multi meter illiterate. Hard to understand the values shown. Oscilloscope on the other had has opened up a whole new world in automotive electrics.

Best explanation I heard so far...

Appreciate it when you go back to basics Dave, i'm pretty keen but not completely up to speed. Would love to see more basics on equipment, discrete components and IC's. I need to get up to speed on basic circuits ASAP. BTW, just received my bible, 3rd edition... We're not worthy!

Great video thanks Dave. Trying to buy an oscilloscope as we speak ... determined to try and fix some of my old unworking computers: Apple ][c, Zenith Minisport, etc. I've got a hell of a lot to learn, but learning is so much fun. :)

Very nice video for beginners about oscilloscope...

here at my university we're measuring soil moisture with one of those tektronix devices. pretty old-skool but its basically the way all modern moisture work and therefore its a great opportunity to show the students how the measurement is working :)

New subscriber- great video! I wish you would do an oscilloscope for dummies video- very few out there on youtube by engaging educators like youself. Might entice more people into the hobby. You rock!

Thank you sir i was afraid of using the oscilloscope ....now i have a good reason to use it!!!!Thank you...

Thanks. I'm a newbie and this was useful.

Very good explanation!

I totally forgot it was this video featuring the Rigol 1054 'scope that lit a candle under myself to finally upgrade from my USB scope and get this very model (plus the sneaky software hack upgrade to 100 MHz) Cheers, Dave! (And UKposts I guess for re-recommending this video!)

Thank you very much for the video. Could you please please do a complete tutorial series dedicated for oscilloscopes. It would be super easy to teach novice users.

Strewth!! Great Vid!! Thanks Dave.

Thank you for this video, it is very informative. Now I need to get a scope for my lab ;D

This video is much appreciated. Subscribed!

Great video Dave, can you do another getting a little deeper, such as trigger and ac vs dc settings?

That was fantastic.... and now I'm off to watch your video on how to NOT blow the oscilloscope up! I really want a Rigol DS1054z I see Banggood have them for for what I believe is a good price.

Wonderful, as usual.

Great video !!! can you please make a video on how to use a spectrum analyser?

The hard part is figuring out which oscilloscope to save up for.

Dave i have the 2232. Old school dso fully analog with a crt. I absolutely love it. It’s the scope on my project des. I got a newer one for portable because I have to capture Siginal s on cars. Everything runs bus control. Luckily I’m able to mimic the Siginal with an arduino. The new BMWs have to have can. System for the Seats to work.

I built my oscilloscope from a kit, the DSO-138 I think. It's not as fancy as the oscilloscopes you have, but it's pretty good up to 100khz signals. It was about 3 hours straight of soldering to get everything together.

Do correct me if I am imprecise, but when it comes to CROs, I believe there is the factor of the persistence of Phosphor luminescence too, along with the persistence of Vision that makes a curve appear solid at a higher time-base setting. An awesome 101 video Sir !

Very good explanation! I've been called old school because I still use a o-scope after 43 years in the biz. Almost time to retire.

Thanks a lot for this amazing video, I would like to ask you to tell me how to measure the gain in an amplifier circuit.