RIGOL Digital Oscilloscope DS1202Z-E 200 MHz 2-Ch 1 GSa/s 24 Mpts 30,000 wfms/s UltraVision 7" 800x480 Intensity Display, 60,000-Frame Record, Serial Decode UART I2C SPI for Debug & Education

In a world I used to know many years ago, this scope would have cost thousands of dollars. So here it is now, a scope that can practically do anything for a fraction of the olden days cost and I am not exaggerating. 200 MHz bandwidth is pretty astounding at this price. It has measurements, deep storage, big screen, print screen, and a depth of functions so deep that they defy my ability or patience to list them all. Go to Rigol's site and read the manual and data sheet for this little beast. It is astounding. Ok, enough hyperbole, here's what you may actually want to know. In short, nothing about this scope feels cheap. The scope feels like it has a quality build. No unusually wiggly knobs, for example. It has a reasonable weight. Scopes used to weigh 30 pounds or more and we had to roll them around on carts. This thing is no heavier than a lunchbox with a thermos inside. The handle supports the thing quite well. The plastic body is nicely molded to the contours of the inner chassis so it does not take up any more space than it needs to. The knobs and buttons are excellent for their smoothness and placement. Coming from analog scopes, it takes some time to become used to the lack of horizontal timebase markings and separate controls for each channel. It does not take long to become accustomed to this scope, though. Some of the legends on the screen are very tiny but luckily you can enlarge the font on many of them. Some folks like to gripe about fan noise in equipment and I agree that some are pretty loud. This fan is very docile and it does not annoy me at all. Even so, my hand cannot detect even the slightest warmth in the case after an hour's operation. The display is plenty bright. The display is big (wide) but the sides are permanently occupied by the legends for the soft keys. You can't turn them off as you can on some scopes. No big loss, in my opinion. The scope has built-in help for just about every function. It really is well written and actually, well, helpful. No printed manual comes with the scope. You have to download it. The scope has a speaker to announce button presses but it is inaudible to my old ears. The included probes are nice and not at all the junky things I was expecting. In operation, it took me a while to get used to dialing in for a stable signal. Not the scope's fault. After an hour or two I got adept at capturing the signal I wanted. In fact, if you get hopelessly lost, you can just press the Auto button and you've got about a 90% chance of locking on to your waveform. With practice, you don't need Auto any longer but it's nice to have it available. The scope as it is being sold now has all the options running with no time limit so you don't have to spend hundreds of dollars more optioning up the scope. My favorite thing about this scope, beside the beauty of its operation, is its ability to display dozens of measurement about the signal. I don't have to count squares and do math in my head to figure out the p-p or the rms. It even displays the frequency of the signal. If I have any complaint, it is that some of the functions are way down in the menus. However, once you learn where they are, the problem is over for you. You will spend some time learning to use this scope but the results will be worth it. What I don't like: Just small things. The multifunction knob is too sensitive. It is frustrating as it often overshoots the selection. While pressing the knob to finalize your selection it often jumps to an adjacent selection. This needs to be fixed in firmware. Also, it bothers me that unused positions behind the front panel illuminate during startup for buttons that are not even installed on this scope. The power cord is really thick. You would think this scope has the amp draw of an arc welder. The thick cord is a bit difficult to handle. As I said, small stuff all. This is a terrific scope. I recommend it and don't see how you could do better at this price.

For $300? That's ridiculous. This is comparable to one of those Tek lunchboxes. It's substantial, had more heft to it than I expected. Industrial design is pretty nice. The fan was audible even at first turn on. Almost like something was rubbing, but not that bad. Shake it and it goes away and then comes back when you shift the position around. I'm not concerned. The probes are pretty nice. Shrouded BNCs, nice pointy tips, decent lead length. These also feel substantial and good quality. The screen is spacious. I was kind of shocked when I took it out of the box. Some things are pretty small, like the vertical scale, but still legible. What's important is the capture is huge and bright. Brightness is set to 60% by default and that seems maybe a little too much. There's menus on either side of the trace, they never go away, but it doesn't feel cramped at all. I see in here where people had trouble with operation. Did not have that problem in the slightest. The knobs are not marked very well but duh. I had it mastered in ten minutes. There's some stuff that is less than intuitive, for instance changing variables in the menus when there's more than one. The UI logic seems pretty sound. Previous menu is always selected next, vertical control closes open menus (with selected variables), single automatically lights stop, stuff like that. Storage is easy, so many maths, saves to png, types A and B and an RJ45. There's all kinds of stuff I'm never going to use. I'm never connecting this to a network. It's in my garage. So I will likely never press the print button. Will I ever use a delayed trigger? Not likely either, I'm troubleshooting audio equipment. I didn't rate the accuracy because I lack a standard. I guess I could compare it to my old Fluke 87 III that hasn't been calibrated in two decades. Or maybe not. I just want to get to probing things. Is that so wrong?

The RIGOL DS1000Z-E Series is an absolute gem for anyone who needs a reliable, feature-packed oscilloscope. The 7-inch display is bright and clear, making it easy to analyze waveforms, and the UltraVision technology is a game-changer. The deep memory depth and real-time waveform recording let me dig into the details without missing a beat. It’s packed with features you’d expect from higher-priced models, like multiple trigger types, FFT functions, and even waveform playback. The controls are intuitive, and I had no trouble getting it set up and running. For the price, this scope is an unbeatable deal—I’d recommend it to hobbyists and professionals alike!

Great scope works fine for what I need Great easy controls and features Well made

Very good machine for a beginner and experienced.

This is a good oscilloscope with a lot of useful capabilities for the price. My only complaint is that the transfer of data from the o-scope's 24 Mpoint internal memory is only via the front panel USB 2 port to a USB flash drive. In my application, I am capturing data using the entire 24 Mpoint internal memory and it takes 45 minutes to an hour to transfer that data to a USB flash drive via the USB 2 port on the o-scope. I use a USB 3 flash drive so I can transfer the data into my computer via a USB 3 port, and that takes only 10 minutes to 15 minutes. Also, the o-scope will not recognize a USB flash drive if the drive size is too large. It recognized a 32 GB flash drive, but not a 1 TB flash drive. I don't understand why Rigol chose to have a USB 2 port instead of a USB 3 port in this day and age for the only port over which the 24 Mpoint memory can be externally accessed. Before buying this o-scope, I asked about whether the USB port was USB 2 or USB 3 since it is not listed in the manual or the specification sheet. The answer I received was that it was USB 2, but that was plenty fast for the amount of data to be transferred. That may be true for transferring the displayed image and the displayed wave form data, but it is certainly not fast enough for transferring the actual captured digital data at full resolution when it fills the 24 Mpoint memory. Also, be aware that the digital data in the 24 Mpoint memory cannot be accessed from a computer via Rigol's Ultrascope software which also only accesses the displayed image and displayed wave form data which are down sampled and/or truncated versions of the full digital data.

OK, so my trusty Tektronix 485, from 1973, is retired and this is a replacement. I am also retired from electronic engineering but still dabble a bit with microprocessors. This scope will do very nicely, thank you. I'm still getting used to the differences from the 485, and there are many. And I doubt I'll use many of the recording features. One of the deciding factors in this scope was the ability to decode RS232 serial streams. Gawd, would I have killed to have that over the years! The image quality is very nice. OK, not as nice as a CRT scope, but digitals just aren't vector scopes are they? I think this is a great buy for the price. But, definitely NOT for beginners. The instruction manual (download it from their site) is 1/2" thick, printed on both sides of the page. The probes are very nice, and the compensate beautifully. (Be sure to do that with a new machine and probes.) All the menus and variable buttons will take some getting used to, but remember, I am used to an analog boat anchor and just will need to spend the time. If you are an antique like me, realize there will be a learning curve for this baby.

I just received this today, so this is my first impression. I do mostly guitar amps and stereo gear, but I also enjoy ESP32s running Christmas lights and other projects. It's pretty intuitive to get most things going, and it has an "Auto" button that will set most settings based on the waveform you have on your probe. I hooked it to my audio generator, sending it a 1K tone, hit the auto button and got a great high frequency trace. My generator power supply was sending trash into, and then out of my generator, and that's what the scope thought I wanted to see. After adding some ferrite to the power supply all was good. I have a wifi modem and an wireless AP close to my bench and I was seeing that noise on a lot of circuits I was looking at. A quick YouTube video showed a bandwidth limit function that reduces the bandwidth to 20 MHz. Limiting the bandwidth gave me traces that looked just like my old scope. I have just started digging into the features, but being able to see the signal, measure the voltage, frequency, period and offset at one time is awesome. So far I'm kicking myself for not going digital sooner, especially at this price! I highly recommend this scope!

Not bad, not bad at all. Spec may not be on par with the likes of Tektronix etc, but it's close enough for general use. Well finished enclosure and without a trace of shoddy design. Highly recommended at the price.

Lo adquirí para sustituir mi antiguo siglent de 100 MHz. Funciona muy bien y con tremendas prestaciones, pudiendo hacer visibles señales mucho más allá de los 200 MHz. Se hechan de menos un par de prestaciones que absurdamente Rigol no ha incorporado y que vía software sería algo muy fácil de hacer. * Un salvapantallas que deje en negro el LCD tras un tiempo o con algo que se vaya moviendo. La pantalla siempre está encendida. * Una opción que permita visualización a pantalla completa. Es decir que podamos ampliar el área de pantalla al desactivar la barra de herramientas izquierda y derecha dejando a "full screen" la forma de onda con los valores seleccionados sobreexpuestos en la pantalla. Por lo demás está genial, todos los botones y perillas dan muy buena sensación y de calidad. Se agradece además que la pantalla sea mate antirreflejo, es muy bueno esto para un instrumento de laboratorio

Utilisé pour le loisir, en remplacement d'un bon vieux HAMEG 412. C'est vraiment très bon. La qualité graphique des signaux est parfaite. On fini par s'habituer aux nombreuses commandes, plutôt intuitives. L'affichage des mesures c'est top. Le seul petit défaut serait un leger bruit de ventilo. Mais pour le prix c'est vraiment excellent.

Perfect for the money

Das RIGOL-Oszilloskop vom Typ DS1202 ist ein ausgezeichnetes Gerät mit einem immensen Funktionsumfang und einen auch für den Privatbereich erschwinglichem Preis. Vorrangig würde ich es in den Entwicklungs- und Servicebereich des Mittelstandes verortern, aber auf Grund seiner erstklassigen technischen und mathematischen Funktionen ist es auch für den privaten Elektroniker (z.B. im Unruhestand ;-) ein phantastisches Spielzeug. Neben einem gelungen Gerätedesign und einer ausgezeichneten Bildqualtät sind es gut gekennzeichnete Grundbedienungskomplexe und perfekt belegte Softkeys, die die Arbeit mit diesem Gerät zur Freude werden lassen. An der Funktionsweise besonders beachtenswert ist u.a. die erstklassig Darstellung von seriellen Prozessorbussen als Bitfolge mit Decodierungen in ASCII, HEX oder Dezimal. Weiterhin überzeugt der interne Meßkopfabgleich, die neben der üblichen YT-Funktion vorhandene XY- und ROLL-Funktion der Horizontalablenkung, die die Darstellung von Lissajous und Sweeps erlaubt, sowie die ausgezeichneten mathematischen Funktionen, die jeden Ingenieur regelrecht zu begeistern verstehen. Neben der Verknüpfung beider Eingänge mit Arithmetik ist auch die Verknüpfung mit boolscher Algebra möglich, sowie die Darstellung von Integral-, Differential-, Logarithmus- und Expoenetialwerten. Ein „Schmankerl“ bildet schließlich die Fast-Fourrier-Transformation mit ihrer Darstellung im Frequenzbereich der Signale. Dabei ist aus 6 Fenstermöglichkeiten die Darstellung wählbar, darunter die bekannten Hanning- und Hammingfenster. Und das geht selbst im Decodiermodus einer UART-Signalübertragung ! Übrigens läßt sich der Bildschirm problemlos über ein gutes Dateimanagement intern oder auf Stick z.B. in JPEG-, TIFF- u.a. Formaten speichern und am PC original wieder darstellen.