3-in-1 'Scope, DMM, & AWG Owon HDS272S

In this video we look at the OWON HDS272S, a 3-in-1 Oscilloscope, Multimeter and Arbitrary waveform Generator.
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[@joaquinnunez33]

One of the best reviews I've ever seen, thank you very much 👍🏻

[@SaeligCoInc]

Another great Owon product! Nice intro - thanks!

[@rondlh20]

Nice, useful for lots of jobs, a bandwidth limit of 20MHz is stated in the manual (for all models), makes sense for a 250Msa/s scope

[@opalprestonshirley1700]

Yes, sir getting out without a mask is wonderful. Congratulations on the new band. Looks like a great buy, oscilloscope, multimeter, and function generator. Very cool. Thanks, Paul.

[@michaelpadovani9566]

I agree getting out and doing things, mostly without a mask, is great and is a triumph of medical science. Interesting product here from Owon.

[@kostaskritsilas2681]

You have already been told by others, but the header is a JTAG port, with mostly standard JTAG labels. Potentially could be used to rewrite the firmware on the unit. The TDI stands for Test Data In, the TDO is Test Data Out, CLOCK is Test Clock (most likely, the common abbreviation is TCK), TRST is Test Reset, JMS might be Test Mode, and I don't know what NRST is (its not a standard part of the JTAG port, so it may be OWON specific for their own internal tests). I would be guessing the 3.3V pin is to allow for testing of the 3.3V voltage rail, or to allow for powering up a JTAG tester when running tests in the field.

[@TheDigitalAura]

I just got one of these to use out and about along with a Rigol DG1062z to replace a DG1022u. They seem to be the best handheld scope you can get for the money with true bandwidth and the 18650s are just awesome.

[@alsnow3582]

Just checked Amazon and the price is up to $249 for the Owon HDS272S. If it's because of your video Paul, they owe you big time!

[@learnelectronics]

Its an algorithm.

[@warrenking1815]

Paul, like the owan scope but I recently purchased a loto osc482 after seeing your review of it. I purchased the scope with function gen ($100) and love it, great functions and software. You do have to have a PC, but that is a small thing to get a two channel scope with the function gen. As far as the band goes no one will care about your hair, as long as you rock.

[@amrishhirani6096]

Good multimeter Thanks 👍

[@joshbryant1133]

Looks handy! There's a pc oscilloscope and AWG I've been looking at on Amazon that seems to have some really nice specs that seems like a better bang-for-buck value. I think you've reviewed one of the models before but they have a new model that's purple instead of blue with fantastic 👌 specs.

[@andynonimuss6298]

Is it possible to measure dirty electric in mV (a clean or bad AC sine wave) using the HDS272S?

[@donhiscock6933]

Grate video Paul glad to see your back in the music scene and also glad you took your son to his first concert. You know what Dave Jones says about those hand held scopes lol. I will certainly give it a try. You have a great day your friend Don Hiscock from Vancouver British Columbia Canada 🇨🇦.

[@barrybogart5436]

Just ordered one from Banggood - $230Cdn to Vancouver. May be a long wait though.

[@eddy2561]

Excellent video!! I wish however you would review the user manual.....I owned an early model OWON scope and the manual was worthless!! The scope was confusing at best and took me a lot of trial and error to use......I gave it away.

[@treadmillrepair754]

This scopes works really well.

[@yankovalsky7696]

Do you have voltage drift in oscilloscope ("mean" option) when the case heats up inside?

[@erikas6874]

Can you adjust the backlit? Seems a little dark on the video.

[@melike7842]

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

[@pirulito99]

The best review about Owon HDS272S !! , One question, can I send the signal generator to external amplifier and to connect his output to Oscilloscope ? thank you very much!

[@hoverbovver]

Did you test it at the rated 70Mhz?

[@rootvalley2]

are the fuses easy to replace?

[@haroldmoore2563]

whats with the 60hz in the audio?

[@deterdamel7380]

It seems to have a very small sample buffer of only 8k..

[@paulp2089]

Is it super test gear - Meh. However it is inexpensive and extremely portable, so for that $ and portability it seems like a good entry level bit of kit. Thanks Paul and of course Owon too 😁

[@bblod4896]

With that one device, you could dispose of all your other multimeters; perhaps keep one. Pickup a 80's wig from Party City, ROCK ON! Thanks for the video Paul. ✌☮

[@Eremon64]

What is the dc voltage tester you used and where can you find it

[@learnelectronics]

search process calibrator

[@JetFixxxer]

Congrats on joining a band!

[@learnelectronics]

Thanks, let's see if I'm too old. I used to play out in my 20's. But that was 30 some years ago.

[@andrewwilson6240]

I'm not sure if I'm ready for doing the full out with crowds thing yet. It is interesting how coming out of lockdown is for some people (like me) harder than lockdown itself

[@acrexp]

Hey guys I know this isn't the place for this but don't sweat things. I can't help myself when I hear people hurting and afraid. Throw those face diapers in the garbage. Unless you have a health issue that you and YOUR DR feel the mask will help. Not the government appointed so called virologist. Like Lord Fauci. The truth is coming out. Fauci is in this virus up to his ears. Along with the CCP and some big money people. I believe you can add the DNC to that list as well. I think that will come out soon too. The Communist and our news people have scared people and basically brain washed people. It's called control. Go and read history on Germany starting in the early 30s and look at the similarities. Wake up people. Don't be led so easily. I can't believe how easy and how fast people in this great nation just gave up their Rights and rolled over like a trained pup. I don't care what political party you belong to just please investigate what you hear from the talking heads on TV and make up your own mind. Don't just swallow the crap they are feeding you. If you ever want a free, fair and trusted election in this country again we must stop all the medaling from the Russians, CCP, and others that help facilitate the biggest fraud on the American Citizens ever. Well I have only spoken the facts but it's a shame I will probably be band from here. Remember people, we used to have rights to voice our opinions. Now the big tech rules your free speech. WAKE UP FOLKS BEFORE ITS ALL GONE SO FAR WE CANT GET IT BACK. please go read some world history and how people like Mussolini, Stalin and Hitler came to power. Look at what they did. They started controlling the media for one but don't listen to me go read about it yourself. You can't change history. You can leave out what you don't like but it doesn't change it. If we don't learn from it then we are doomed to repeat it. Please folks I beg you to spend a couple evenings and investigate the history for yourself. What we are teaching our kids now is not our history and it has nothing to do with bringing is together. In the last 12 or so years we have lost all the ground we have gained in race relations. Please, people if you care for your children, grandchildren and their children stop all this stuff preached by the talking heads. History tells us all we need to know. Pay attention to it and learn from it so we don't repeat it. Ok I'm done now. Sorry I just had to say that when I hear people scared to take off the face diapers and come out and socialize with there fellow man (and woman). I don't care what color you are or what county you or your ancestors come from or what religion you practice or what you do in the privacy of your bedroom As long as you don't try to push it on me or others you are free to do it. That is what this country was founded on. If you don't agree with it you have choice's. You can vote in different representation, You can PEACEFULLY (peacefully does not mean burn down cities and police cars or stations. That's called rioting and breaking into places and stealing is also not peaceful it's called looting, all of which is not your right it's a crime.) protest or leave this country and go wherever they do things to your liking. Ok I have spoke my peace. Can we all just get back together and have a big reunion. Cook out and get together, enjoy our kids and have some fun. Does anyone remember that? Let's everyone come together for the 4th of July and celebrate what this fine country was founded on. Let's cook some great food and have some friendly sports and enjoy each other like we used to.

[@stanleytolle416]

@@acrexp maybe you should have gone though the first pandemic, 1917-1910 like I have. Well not directly but my grandfather did and he did allot of talking about it. He was in the US Army Balloon Core at the time. He got pressed into hospital duty during the worst of it. He appeared to be immune saying all these people dieing around him and he did not get even a sniffle. What he also talked about was all the denial taking place and stupid people not wanting to take basic health precautions. He told me about the anti-mask league in San Francisco that got the mask mandate overturned which resulted in thousands of people dieing in San Francisco in the second wave. He also told about areas like St Louis that prevented the second waves from killing thousands by maintaining mask mandates. When this this pandemic hit I check out some of this stuff. Like the Anti-mask league literature was almost identical to the nut case stuff being put out now. Right down to a malaria treatment being a cure for the killer flue. As far as I can tell the same nut cases. No learning from experience or history.

[@marksplace]

As always another great review, thanks Paul. Congrats on joining a band and getting out with your son. I just ordered one and should be here sometime next week. In the description it shows that the BNC's are made of plastic, is that true and does it look easy (if needed) to be able to solder new metal BNC's on?

[@learnelectronics]

Mine are metal

[@portblock]

Curious question, can the function generator still output while using the scope? I use function generators a lot but never cared for them in the scope, I use external ones. However, I can see this handy in the field, but I am struggling to see how its valuable if I cant use it while using the scope. If you covered this in the video, I do apologize I didnt see it.

[@moofree]

According to comment on another youtube review of these, the function generator stays online in the background until it's shut off.

[@hasn812]

Good

[@MegaCadr]

What concert did you take your kid to? And are you going to post links to your band videos if you make any?

[@learnelectronics]

The Clarks and I don't know

[@bobwhite137]

Got one a couple months ago from " !-good " - pretty happy overall. Biggest beef is there is good sized parasitic draw on the battery while off. Battery will drain in a few weeks if left alone. Annoying. Meter accuracy is quite good, and it autoranges just fine (not sure who was having trouble with that) Scope accuracy is so-so, maybe even a little beyond spec - but fine for the kind of likely uses you'll encounter. Function generator is pretty choppy at the limits, but otherwise not bad.

[@michael931]

Kerry Wong measured the off current at about 2uA so that's odd. EEV Blog showed the auto range took 4 seconds to determine shorted leads.

[@bobwhite137]

@@michael931 I have yet to carefully measure the parasitic draw of mine - I can only surmise that there are some different revisions out there, that may include different charging chips, resulting in various current draws among units. I was also the lucky recipient of an Iphone 7 that had a significant current draw from the charging circuit while the phone was off...

[@SpaceEncounter]

Hi buddy, you should leverage the scope to fix the hum problem in your videos!

[@albertoolmos21]

1:40 A 60MHz probe for a 70Mhz scope? I got that probe for the 40MHz HDS242

[@mandarin1257]

owon, what's this?

[@melplishka5978]

Nice unit. Pretty fast too. How much lol

[@frankowalker4662]

Nice meter/scope. Good luck with the new band, Maybe you could wear a long wig. LOL.

[@BeefIngot]

Hows this thing vs the 1013D or Hantek 2D72 (which seems to be the same thing sans fuse)

[@aurthorthing7403]

Looks a lot like the Hantek... but costs way more.

[@geirendre]

The 40MHz version of this sells at 119USD, and the Hantek 2D40 is at 129USD.

[@aurthorthing7403]

@@geirendre I couldn't find the Owon that cheap. Maybe it changed after I searched for it? I did find the Hantek for 105.00 USD on Amazon.

[@geirendre]

@@aurthorthing7403 It's been listed at Banggood for several weeks at 119USD for the 40MHz sans FG, and 159USD for 70MHz unit. I think it's amazing how much you get for that price. Next thing is to hack the 40MHz version up to 70MHz.

[@Sobakin76]

Coax cable need to be properly terminated (50 Ohm load) for MHz's range testing. Or at least use scope probe in 10x attenuated position. And testing generator offset voltage while scope in AC coupling is useless.

[@KissAnalog]

Nice review Paul. Looks very similar to the Hantek 2D72, but only at a high level. There are build differences and I would be interested to see how they stack up against each other.

[@aurthorthing7403]

looks like different firmware too.

[@gydo1942]

Yes, indeed! I have one of those Hantek units, but this one looks better. The hantek can be very slow with reading ohms and switching between meter/scope. Also the UI is less 'polished' and not very user friendly. But it works, and it's cheap. so can't complain about that.

[@aurthorthing7403]

@@gydo1942 I bet it's the same on the inside.

[@dhphuckts]

@@aurthorthing7403 wrong, hantek and owon not the same inside.

[@aurthorthing7403]

@@dhphuckts cool, that's good to know.

[@melplishka5978]

Awsome , which concert LOL. And what’s ur bands name lol.

[@learnelectronics]

I went to see "The Clarks". My band is yet to be named.

[@stanleytolle416]

Does this unit connect to a computer like the Hantek portable does? A review of the Hantek showed that in could display on a computer (laptop) with surprisingly good software. In fact there appeared to be even more functions in the computer display than on the unit. This would be great if this unit does this too. My need is mobile automotive testing. So my next question is can I use the automotive test leads Hantek has for their scopes. Liked your video. Keep us automotive guys in mind in your reviews. We are using allot of this equipment to track down problems on cars.

[@learnelectronics]

No

[@barrybogart5436]

@@learnelectronics Of course it does! USB.

[@zerodegrekelvin2]

LOL "close enough for government work", did not know you have a good sense of humor 8-))

[@electronicengineer]

You can always pick up a long hair wig! You got this! Fred

[@learnelectronics]

Gonna get one!

[@stafvh5783]

you have a serious background rumble in your audio.

[@Aaron48219]

$250 on Amazon...that escalated quickly.

[@SlinkyStoney]

They UI looks nice than my Hantek

[@dhphuckts]

This product has more functions and the hardware better than hantek

[@SlinkyStoney]

@@dhphuckts yup, much better than the hantek that I have.

[@harryshector]

One of the aspects of most digital instruments is the inability to ‘zero’ the resistance measurement function. How hard could that be? Why do manufacturers think that we want to keep subtracting the ‘zero’ value in our heads, or that we don’t care what the resistance of the leads is? Just frosts my cookies.

[@michaelroberts1120]

That's what the relative measurement feature on some instruments is for. Unfortunately, this multimeter doesn't seem to have that.

[@howlinhog]

I know it isn't fair or accurate to formulate an opinion based on the charge port cover, but dang, annoying the crap out of me while trying to pry that stupid cover open was not a great start. Menu is not exactly intuitive, but then again, I've been used to my Fluke scope/meter since the nineties with the 97 and now the 190-204. Not having isolated channels bugs me, but there I am comparing it with Fluke again. Not really fair. I've been in the market for a small 2 channel scope with true rms dmm. We'll see. Probably going to send it back.

[@juancarlossandoval5628]

More reviews pls,, new sub here...

[@learnelectronics]

My friend there are over 100 reviews here

[@juancarlossandoval5628]

@@learnelectronics currently browsing your video album, what a joy to watch,, thanks

[@dedskin1]

isnt this 12V vids ? Whats going on here , the voice seams a bit changed , wtf ?

[@sccsuk]

Terrible buzz on the audio..

[@andrewwilson6240]

Is it a buzz or a fan? I can't work it out

[@sccsuk]

@@andrewwilson6240its hard to tell sounds like fan sometimes or a compressor at times it varies in pitch throughout the whole video, maybe even a ground loop type noise

[@henryhenze631]

Poor protection from a 10A 5x20mm fuse & a mA polyfuse. Think twice about working on a high voltage battery pack! Overvoltage input protection also looks weak. Fine for low voltage stuff, i.e. 10's of volts AC/DC, perhaps up to 250V AC, but almost all quality DMMs use larger 13/32" x 1-3/8" (10x38mm) midget fuses or 1/4' x 1-1/4" (6x32mm) fuses, especially for the 10A, because it is difficult to interrupt a high voltage DC arc that appears when the fuse blows, especially if it is a kA short, with a physically small fuse.

[@Dennis-mq6or]

Made by Hantek..... Hantek model 2D72.

[@dhphuckts]

wrong, its not the same

[@Dennis-mq6or]

@@dhphuckts Please tell me what is different then. I own both Owon AND Hantek portable scopes and meters. I even own some of those 'wireless' data logging multimeters made by OWON that ended up being useless to me because they will only work with Apple products, and not Android! I purchase lots of different meters as the owner of an electronics business...

[@dhphuckts]

@@Dennis-mq6or U can't see different UI, app on computer and specifications ? They dont have the same hardware. If you really own both Owon HDS272S and Hantek 2D72 you can see what is different.

[@Dennis-mq6or]

@@dhphuckts , I have an idea. Download the Hantek PC software for the 2D72 scope into your computer, Hook the OWON to the PC via USB And see if it works..... If it works, I was made by Hantek. That should end this discussion one way or the other....