Hantek1008C PC USB 8CH Automotive Diagnostic Digital Oscilloscope/DAQ/Programmable Generator

Great scope to start learning about them and a great entry price. Sampling rate gets slow when watching fast cam bus

Must have item for any serious Auto tech.....Great price, shipping AND item....Will do business with again....💯✊🏿

It arrived on time, and does function for what I need it for, Automotive diagnostics, it however has it's quirks; Software leaves a lot to be desired... I would like to have all 8 channels in the front of the unit, I would like to see the update times be faster, I would really like to see ac coupling as an option, and the secondary pick up option is COMPLETELY USELESS if you hook it up to a plug wire and start the engine or place it on a plug wire of an already running engine you will be lucky to get ONE full wave form, every time I have attempted it the oscilliscope has frozen and if I do not immediately unplug it from my laptop I get the blue screen of death on the laptop.If you do not have a great understanding of what to use this for get on the U Tube and find Scanner danner watch his videos and you will understand a lot more, you will still need to get an understanding of volts per division and time per division and how to set your trigger voltage, +/-, and auto, single or normal, but it will come in tome especially once you know what a good wave form is supposed to look like.Bottom line can I recommend this as a budget priced automotive diagnostic oscilliscope YES; however you need to understand there will be limitations with this tool, I am sure there are many others out here like me who cannot afford the latest and greatest from s..p-on or a pico scope or a true lab grade oscilliscope, This is a GREAT starter scope, make sure you get a 10x probe/attenuator, a 20:1 (20X) attenuator and a current clamp I got the CC-65 it works well if you can get the wire in it you can measure it, seen spikes to 400 amps with some clarity.

To begin if you are looking for a 100mhz/channel high end scope, this is not it and don't even try to compare them. Now if you are on a home project budget this is a usable solution. It has built in function in the software that allow many automotive diagnostics. Use the setup window to pick diagnostics, then chose what you are testing, Like, ignition, then primary voltage and current. The software auto configures the setting required. As with any test or analysis equipment basic technical skills are needed. Gives acquitted results for automotive debugging. For the cost I was quite surprised. ( I am a retires IT/Computer engineer, your mileage may very.)

Soy Mecánico Automotriz y me encantó, llegó antes de lo previsto ahora haré mejor mis diagnóstico.

It's been a pleasure.

I ordered this and was able to generate a square wave for about 2 minutes. Then the software crashed. Now when I open the software it crashes immediately. I've tried uninstalling, reinstalling, rebooting, different computers and different versions of the software, so I figured it was a hardware problem and sent it back. Got my new one today and it does the same thing. Then it randomly healed itself and started working? I was able to plot some interesting waveforms that allowed me to eliminate some hypotheses I had about a misfire.tl;dr software is a dumpster fire, scope works well enough.

I can get past the lack of any useful documentation/instructions, pain getting the software and drivers to work in x64 Win7 or Win8 but the unstable software and hardware were too much. The scope software would intermittently drop out the USB connection/communication to the scope hardware module regularly on ~3 min intervals after about 10 mins of operation. I tested on two separate computers one with Win8 and one with Win7 with same behaviors. It only seemed to work fine for measuring low voltage square waves. The main reason I wanted this unit was for secondary ignition waveforms and it did not work at all for this usage scenario. Upon connecting the supplied BNC HT ignition probe to any secondary ignition cable, the software would not display a waveform, it would and say it was searching for a signal and sometime it would even crash the computer OS. My guess is a driver issue - I did however download whatever I could glean as being the latest drivers from Hantek's web site and also checked their support bulletin boards. Very disappointing overall experience as I wasted a good bit of time trying to get it working. The only upside is Amazon stood behind the product and processed a return for me. I understand that one can't expect much for something priced this low but I'd expect it to at least work for the most basic functions its advertised as supporting. The only thing I didn't try is setting up an XP SP3 OS build to test on.