Handheld oscilloscope offers five instruments in one

Scope Rider follows in the footsteps of the company’s FSH handheld spectrum analyser launched at productronica in November last year.

The new oscilloscope has an acquisition rate of 50,000 waveforms per second, a 10‑bit A/D converter developed by Rohde & Schwarz and a maximum bandwidth of 500MHz for the analogue input channels.

The versatile R&S Scope Rider integrates five functions. It is based on a high‑performance oscilloscope featuring a precise digital trigger system, 33 automatic measurement functions, mask test and XY diagram mode. It can function as a logic analyser with eight additional digital channels, as a protocol analyser with trigger and decoding capability, as a data logger and a digital multimeter.

The handheld oscilloscope is the first to be equipped with a large‑format capacitive touchscreen, allowing it to be operated as intuitively as a tablet PC. It also features large buttons for use with gloves and a practical multifunction wheel for convenient parameter adjustment.

Users can read results at any time, as all measurement information is displayed in a clear, application‑oriented manner on the brilliant screen.

Well prepared for harsh environments, the Scope Rider’s IP51‑certified housing offers protection from environmental hazards such as dust and dripping water. The handheld oscilloscope has passed all mechanical load tests in line with military standards.

The fully isolated instrument offers maximum safety and meets the measurement category requirements defined in IEC 61010-1 for CAT IV up to 600 V and for CAT III up to 1000 V.

In addition to a microSD card, the instrument features USB and Ethernet ports for uncomplicated storage and transfer of measurement data. The R&S Scope Rider also has an integrated WLAN interface. This can be configured as a hotspot to allow the instrument to be remotely controlled via a smartphone, tablet PC or laptop. A simple web browser on the mobile device is all that is required. There is no need for additional software or apps.

With more than four hours of battery runtime, the 2.4 kg R&S Scope Rider offers users a high degree of flexibility during installation, maintenance and in emergency situations. The new handheld oscilloscope goes beyond traditional electrical engineering to serve a broad range of industries. Technicians and specialists can also use it to gain a clear understanding of the condition of electrical installations, systems and components.

It can be used in a variety of measurement data acquisition applications in industrial and manufacturing settings to repairing shipboard electrical drives and carrying out vehicle test drive analyses.

The instrument is available as a four‑channel or a two‑channel instrument, the latter with a digital multimeter, with bandwidths of 60, 100, 200, 350 and 500MHz. There are trigger and decoding options available for I²C, SPI, UART, RS‑232, RS‑422 and RS-485.

The R&S Scope Rider is available from Rohde & Schwarz and selected distribution partners under the product designation R&S RTH10xx.