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

[@bradyjackson3809]

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!

[@mjlorton]

Brady Jackson My pleasure Brady.

[@Ziggy5003]

+Brady Jackson Indeed Sir very much appreciated

[@garywarburton3180]

Excellent.

[@MrTenyearsafter07]

I know the video's been around for a bit of time now, but still being so helpful; thank you

[@saam6768]

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

[@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.

[@cuppen6940]

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

[@mjlorton]

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

[@thedukeofmonkland6150]

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

[@allastairlee8797]

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 KZbin. 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! .....many thanks.

[@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!

[@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

[@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.

[@davidcrawford6505]

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

[@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.

[@rayhenderson9661]

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.

[@devyan1sol]

A great thanks. Helps me to learn in such unusual covid condition.

[@jeffcurrie4885]

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

[@monteefrazee2301]

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.

[@Jjacobs1986]

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!

[@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☺

[@utkf16]

Same here

[@tonygardner9896]

This video was nine years ago, but it still gave me a great insight into oscilloscope usage. Some of the subtitles were amusing as well. Looking forward to the next video.

[@truveo]

Did many variations on taylor, fourier, and maclaurin series in first year calculus lab and had no idea of their practical application until i saw this video. I also recall engineering grad students discussing my models and didn't understand why. Now I know. Thanks for your videos.

[@kbcbala]

Thanks for the time to post this video. When Superb teachers like you exist, its easier for everyone to understand. You are so humble and you are a good teacher.

[@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.

[@kellyward7090]

Huge help 25yrs since I've had reason to use this equipment thank you

[@JohnClulow]

Thank you for this wonderful introductory tutorial; it is exactly what I needed. I look forward to viewing the more advanced one to which you alluded. What makes it especially nice is that the scope I bought appears to be virtually identical to the one you are using in the video. Your well thought out presentation made it effortless and enjoyable to follow and I'm now looking forward to the new vistas having a scope will enable me to explore in electronics. Thanks so much !

[@TheStevenWhiting]

In my first college course in the mid 90s we had to do a electronics class. Never could get into it and we had to use an oscilloscope at one point and I just never understood them. Remember them from school in the late 80s and these hadn't appeared to have changed in college. They were still the analogue scopes that, for me, just seemed really old fashioned and put me off. Roll on over 2 decades later and I discover digital oscilloscopes and have wanted one ever since. No idea how to use but they look so much more interesting than the old analogue ones. And seeing people who know how to use them make them interesting.

[@T4kehiko]

Very good video. At my university there is no course about how to use oscilloscope. So basically when I ended up in lab, teacher told just told me: "Here is an oscilloscope which all of you already know, so do your work", but I've never worked with those kind of devices. So thx for this video.

[@mjlorton]

My pleasure, thanks for the feedback.

[@traeht]

Great tutorial. I just bought my first oscilloscope, put it from the box on my table. Didn't have a clue how to use it. Watched this video, now I know how to present a signal on a screen in a meaningful form. Thank you.

[@rfbase]

You have a skill, that being how well you can explain something to novices. I've watched several "beginner" videos as I'm getting my first scope later today and this is the first one I watched where I actually was able to follow along very well. Thank you very much. I definitely subscribed and definitely hit the thumbs up.

[@mjlorton]

Very valid and good feedback. Having a practical example will make it far more interesting so I will do my best to do that in the next video, Thanks for posting and watching. Cheers, Martin.

[@maykelfarronay]

Thank you so much, I am a computer engineering student and taking Science of Electronics, where I am very lost, this definitely helped me understand it better, thank you, I am sure I will be watching more of your videos.

[@centaur1a]

I am glad that you have taken the time to show us (the beginners) how to use the oscilloscope. My father left me an very old one which uses vacuum tube and it is just gathering dust because I did not know how to use it. Thanks.

[@monke12354]

Fantastic explanation. Never understood this in undergrad, but now I have to understand it in graduate school. Thanks a lot!

[@mjlorton]

Thanks for the feedback...hope to get part II together soon. Cheers, Martin.

[@mjlorton]

Thanks for the kind words and feedback..

[@mjlorton]

My pleasure, thanks for the feedback. You pose a very interesting question and challenge. I know there are some very fancy visualizations done on oscilloscopes but not sure about this one. I hope to learn more about such things once my new scope arrives. Cheers, Martin.

[@glennyee5607]

It's been decades since I've used an oscilloscope....when they were analog. What a great video for refresh and transition. Thank you so much!

[@DavidConnollyvolthaus]

This video is my very first exposure to what an o-scope is and its capabilities. After watching your video I would have to say I now know what it is and what it does. And I'm happy to see the 2nd installment has been made and is ready for viewing. Thank you very much for taking the time to put these videos together. Great job sir. I've given it a thumbs up and also I have subscribed. Keep up the good work, please.

[@lashaungreenlee5297]

Needed this to get refreshed for an interview tomorrow, calibration technician. Thanks!

[@elurommafred3945]

Thank you very much for refreshing my memory about the use of oscilloscope

[@MrAppleimac01]

I have to say I really enjoyed this video, very helpful especially for me a beginner in using an oscilloscope. One thing I know id find extremely helpful, if you've not already done a video on this. Is showing us oscilloscope beginners a live testing. I mean by that how to correcting use the probe, where exactly to ground it. For me that would be a great help.

[@coincidentalrvadventures2081]

Thank you for taking the time to emplane the intricacies of how the Ascope functions. I hope, in the other videos that you provided which I have not viewed yet, that you show us which controls to set to be able to allow us to understand the function of the oscilloscope. Again thank you>

[@COFFEE-e3p]

SIR ,thank-you very much for your generous time and effort, i have gained a bit of understanding but will stay with it to increase my understanding .

[@ShoaibAli-qi1bw]

Thanks for enhancing my knowledge

[@engenhologia]

From one teacher to another, I can say you are a great one!

[@frankfromupstateny3796]

very good speaker, with concise speaking skills and elaboration...thx.

[@thohuynh8701]

Thank you very much for your tutorial video . My professor wants us to read his manual before our Lab and I read it over and over again and I really don't know what the heck is going on . I watch this just one and I get through it , now I am ready for the Lab tomorrow , thank you again . I m really appreciate it

[@sujatnalokananta234]

this the most easy tutorial to understand I ever seen as the explanation not so fast and really detail. please make the complete tutorial in more video as it will be very help full for all beginner. thousands thumb for this video

[@dylansmith8131]

Im going to school For Electronics engineering, this video was awesome and summed everything up i needed to know. Cheers my friend

[@mjlorton]

My pleasure, thanks for the feedback and support. Cheers, Marin.

[@chillingmeko]

The first part was really eye opening. I never thought of an oscilloscope as a time machine! :D

[@mjlorton]

My pleasure, thanks very much for watching and posting. I would certainly hold on to your dad's old scope as they will be / and are gems. Cheers, Martin.

[@leybraith3561]

For those confused on how to display slow moving voltages such as charging capacitors as discussed here, I eventually discovered you need to switch the instrument to 'ROLL' mode or in the case of XYTRON oscilloscopes- "SCAN" mode.

[@sammirison7755]

excellent step by step presentation and illustration. Thank you Sir!

[@MrBogs88]

Nothing to say but THANK YOU SO MUCH for sharing your knowledge. Your one of a kind.

[@billrimmer5596]

I am in Sylmar California. Always enjoy your material. I have three SnapOn automotive oscilloscopes. Vantage, Vantage Pro and a Verus. I’m just learning. Wrapping my mind around time base is a little challenging. Your first visual aid with the post it notes was very nice.

[@redstrat1234]

I just bought a cheap scope - this is gold. Thank you

[@carlos.rberto]

Very good explanation. I'm a beginner in electronics and I learned a lot with your video. Thanks!

[@simeonmeshackimologie506]

Thank you for this Tutorial! I love the way you slowly made your presentation such that anyone could understand you.

[@pauludrea4082]

Thank you Martin, very clear explanation. Thank you for your efforts.

[@geoffreyrawlings9736]

Excellent video I now can understand oscilloscope much better .Thanks for your time.

[@wilfredralphgomez8325]

Thank you sir. You help sharing wisdom to the younger generations.

[@mjlorton]

You get probes that allow you to work with higher voltages and that is set on the scope as well to allow you to see that on the vertical scale.

[@sandplasma]

I have a better understanding of my oscilloscope now, thank you!

[@grojasalf]

Martin, your teaching and dialogue converts electronics easy and lovely....thanks

[@CsrxRacer]

I depend entirely on your videos for learning Electronics! Many thanks,

[@bambam144]

great job martin! have learnt here in 30 min much more then at the university during the electronic practical training. big thumbs up!

[@ceilingwalker1]

You are a very good teacher! Thank you for selflessly giving of your time.

[@khamoshpanchi]

help me a lot to understand the basics of Oscilloscope, thank you

[@Ronnie9710]

You are a awesome teacher.I learned more from yours then any I have watched.thumbs up!

[@maxsnts]

cool video. keep them coming. Two point on the content: 1, the zero line is very important. -12v to 12v has an amplitude of 24v, if you ignore the zero line and just count you will not now if it is -12 to 12 or 0v to 24v 2, i think that the down arrow represents the trigger point, not that the signal is out of the screen

[@kikinhenry]

Thank you for what you have done for me...I am now more knowledgeable about oscilloscopes...You are great explaining concepts!

[@mikejames8192]

Thank you Martin, found this very helpful clear and easy to follow Mike

[@richardkimpel6142]

Thank you so much for this. I am in an AC Circuits Class that unfortunately is basically a brutal self-taught at the local Technical College here in the States. My instructor is a nice enough guy (As is his assistant that comes in only on Tuesdays.) but the are a number of us in different classes using the same Lab Time and often you have to wait long periods of time to get any help. Again, thank you. This cleared up some of my questions.

[@AirandEnergy]

Outstanding lesson. I feel much more comfortable around this machine and now am comfortable using it. I also saved your store which has alot of good equipment. Thanks for the lesson

[@SP330Y]

What a great video, easy to understand and educational. You have refreshed my rusty old knowledge

[@run1492]

A really great basics tutorial; You explain things in a very clear way, thanks !

[@Sixstrings63]

Great Tutorial, Thanks. It's guys like you that demonstrate the true usefulness of things like KZbin. Thanks for your hard work.

[@PCSolutions94]

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!

[@DonalLeader]

Excellent video. Best I've seen on oscilloscopes. Thanks for a great instruction resources. Donal, Middleton, County Cork, Ireland

[@divyanshbalodhi5642]

Respected sir🙏,i enjoyed your lecture a lot

[@themonohub5455]

Thank you!!! I have an inherited analogue scope and have never been able to understand it, but I'm hoping your videos will help. You are a star for sharing this knowledge.

[@SteveH-TN]

Thanks for sharing this video and your insights. Appreciate your help in understanding oscilloscope basics and perspectives.

[@asherscottL]

Thank you for this tutorial. I have used oscilloscopes in the past, but it had been so long and that I was a little concerned I would have trouble picking it back up again. I looked up a video just to remind myself, and this was much easier than I was thinking. The Huntron Scanners I use at work are much more complicated than an o-scope. I really only needed to look at it and its buttons to remember how to use it, but I stayed because your explanation was just so nice and useful. Thank you again for helping smooth,away my worry that I wouldn't remember how this worked,

[@anupriyamarora375]

you were able to teach me what my instructor couldn't XD Awesome tutorial, thanks

[@markusws]

Interesting introduction to oscilloscopes. I have never used one. This was easy to understand. Thank you.

[@victoriagooner9907]

Another well explain electronic/electricity video done. Very well explained oscilloscope video. Looking forward to the rest of the series.

[@emrearslan1797]

I don't know how to thank you sir. You are amazing ! so clean and quite informative I appreciate for this effort

[@lemmeplay48]

My dad used to have an oscilloscope. On a completely unrelated note, thank you so much for this video. Now I can finally use the oscilloscope here... in my work room. It's totally mine, just saying.

[@mjlorton]

My pleasure, good to know the videos have been of value. Cheers, Martin.

[@Aemannin]

Hi Martin, excellent lesson for a newbie like myself to using an oscilloscope. Very good explanation of the very basics. I have purchased a RIGOL DS1052E (Upgraded to 100MHz) to use with my introduction to electronics and think this tutorial is the the best I have come across. I have learnt more after watching this video than reading the user manual and a book on using oscilloscopes. I look forward to the next installment. Keep up the good work. Many thanks, Regards, Les.

[@vaughnburrows]

The Best on KZbin. Added to my favorites, liked, clicked on the ad and subscribed again.

[@rbd104]

Thank you for explaining. Great video, nice and simple to follow.

[@jaiminshah6444]

This tutorial is really useful. I would like to watch tutorial about more advance features of oscilloscope and set up of an oscilloscope. Please post a link to your blog if possible. By the way a big Thumbs up for you !! Thanks for this tutorial.

[@mjlorton]

Excellent, glad you (both!) enjoyed it and gained some value. Thanks very much for your support. Martin.

[@gregorye6075]

Good tutorial, I am just studying oscilloscope. Thanks

[@mjlorton]

Thanks Les, that's really great feedback. I hope to have my new scope soon and will continue the oscilloscope tutorials. Cheers, Martin.

[@SDsailor7]

Can you do a tutorial on how to use an analog oscilloscope? and how to apply the probe and where to apply the probe? Thank you

[@ChicoMds]

Respect. Thank you, from Argentina!

[@FrankieKato149]

You are a excellent teacher keep up the great work I have learned so much from you can't wait to Finish my lab