From: Frnak McKenney on
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:54:51 -0500, T <kd1s.nospam(a)cox.nospam.net> wrote:
> In article <ugbap5tl2srovsc6l29h2nb5u9l6tjrq4v(a)4ax.com>,
> bbew.ar(a)mapson.nozirev.ten says...
>>
>> On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 08:34:17 -0800 (PST), Paul <energymover(a)gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >I'm searching for low end scopes such as Rigol, Atten, Owon, etc. So
>> >far I'm sold on the Rigol DS 1052E. I was about to buy it at
>> >dealexcel.com because they're selling this $600 scope for $390. On

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> And if you only need 1MHz:
>
> http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=9625
>
> For $99 I'm really considering buying one just for low frequency stuff.

How about half that, plus the pleasure of building your own:

DIY Digital Storage Oscilloscope
http://www.makershed.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=MKSEEED5

Parallax (www.parallax.com) is offering a USB Oscilloscope for $140.

Enjoy...


Frank McKenney
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From: Paul on
On Mar 9, 11:54 pm, T <kd1s.nos...(a)cox.nospam.net> wrote:
> In article <ugbap5tl2srovsc6l29h2nb5u9l6tjr...(a)4ax.com>,
> bbew...(a)mapson.nozirev.ten says...
>
>
>
>
>
> > On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 08:34:17 -0800 (PST), Paul <energymo...(a)gmail.com>
> > wrote:
>
> > >Hi,
>
> > >I'm searching for low end scopes such as Rigol, Atten, Owon, etc. So
> > >far I'm sold on the Rigol DS 1052E. I was about to buy it at
> > >dealexcel.com because they're selling this $600 scope for $390. On
> > >their website they have a bunch of email addresses (e.g.,
> > >adm...(a)yahoo.com), which seemed unusual to me because they are the
> > >admin email addresses to yahoo and hotmail. As expected all of these
> > >email addresses bounced back!
>
> > >Their website traffic rating shown by Alexa.com is almost nonexistent.
> > >IOW, they don?t have hardly any traffic. I found a few posts about
> > >them at various forums, but they immediately seemed odd because the
> > >post sounded like a plug from the owner of dealexcel.com because the
> > >post gave two of their website addresses. That seemed a bit unlikely
> > >that a buyer would know about their multiple websites.
>
> > >1) Does anyone know anything about this company.
>
> > Not I. For one data point, though, I've done a lot of personal purchases
> > over athttp://www.tequipment.net/index.htmland have never had any
> > problems.
>
> And if you only need 1MHz:
>
> http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=9625
>
> For $99 I'm really considering buying one just for low frequency stuff.



I agree! The DSO Nano is awesome for it's category. Such a cute little
scope.

Paul