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From: David L. Jones on 4 May 2010 22:58 Charlie E. wrote: > I know that this topic comes up regularly, but now that it looks like > SWMBO is going to let us invest in a small oscilloscope. So, what is > everyone's present recommendation? I know that Joerg likes the > Instek, and that the Rigol has recently come up. Which models? And, > where (besides Ebay) is a good place to find them at a good price! > > Thanks, > Charlie The Rigol DS1052E is still the best value on the market IMO. It's only $385 here: http://www.dealexcel.com/rigol-ds-1052e-ds1052e-50-mhz-2-channel-digital-oscilloscope-sku363_p363.html See my old review and teardown: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdjpbWLi7UI and http://www.eevblog.com/2009/10/12/eevblog-37-rigol-ds1052e-oscilloscope-teardown/ It can be upgraded to the 100MHz model with just a serial cable: http://www.eevblog.com/2010/03/31/eevblog-70-turn-your-rigol-ds1052e-oscilloscope-into-a-100mhz-ds1102e/ and http://www.eevblog.com/2010/04/18/eevblog-77-rigol-ds1052e-ds1102e-oscilloscope-hack-update/ Dave. -- ================================================ Check out my Electronics Engineering Video Blog & Podcast: http://www.eevblog.com
From: David L. Jones on 4 May 2010 23:11 Joerg wrote: > Joerg wrote: >> Charlie E. wrote: >>> I know that this topic comes up regularly, but now that it looks >>> like SWMBO is going to let us invest in a small oscilloscope. So, >>> what is everyone's present recommendation? I know that Joerg likes >>> the Instek, and that the Rigol has recently come up. Which models? >>> And, where (besides Ebay) is a good place to find them at a good >>> price! >> >> My Instek GDS-2204 is almost $2k, probably a bit much. One of my >> clients bought the GDS-1022 which back then (last year) was on sale >> at Wattsupply for $419. >> >> I had bought mine via Newark but it came from Farnell-UK. With a >> genuine big Bri'ish power plug :-) >> > > Just took a look, the 40MHz 2-ch (GDS-1042) is on sale now: > > http://wattsupply.com/s.nl;jsessionid=0a0104451f4336704313cc754424a5fb8022c3f0c8bd.e3eSbNmQaheLe3mQb40?it=A&id=1954&sc=28&category=17880 The Rigol is over $100 cheaper, has 1GS/s and 1Mpoint of memory vs 250MS/s and 4Kpoint, and can be upgraded to 100MHz for nix. Not much of a bang-per-buck contest really. Dave. -- ================================================ Check out my Electronics Engineering Video Blog & Podcast: http://www.eevblog.com
From: J.A. Legris on 4 May 2010 23:51 On May 4, 10:58 pm, "David L. Jones" <altz...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Charlie E. wrote: > > I know that this topic comes up regularly, but now that it looks like > > SWMBO is going to let us invest in a small oscilloscope. So, what is > > everyone's present recommendation? I know that Joerg likes the > > Instek, and that the Rigol has recently come up. Which models? And, > > where (besides Ebay) is a good place to find them at a good price! > > > Thanks, > > Charlie > > The Rigol DS1052E is still the best value on the market IMO. > It's only $385 here:http://www.dealexcel.com/rigol-ds-1052e-ds1052e-50-mhz-2-channel-digi... > See my old review and teardown:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdjpbWLi7UI > andhttp://www.eevblog.com/2009/10/12/eevblog-37-rigol-ds1052e-oscillosco.... > > It can be upgraded to the 100MHz model with just a serial cable:http://www.eevblog.com/2010/03/31/eevblog-70-turn-your-rigol-ds1052e-... > andhttp://www.eevblog.com/2010/04/18/eevblog-77-rigol-ds1052e-ds1102e-os.... > > Dave. > > -- > ================================================ > Check out my Electronics Engineering Video Blog & Podcast:http://www.eevblog.com Hi Dave, Have you actually dealt with dealexcel.com? They seem to be fairly anonymous. Thanks, Joe
From: Robert Roland on 5 May 2010 04:53 On Wed, 5 May 2010 12:58:11 +1000, "David L. Jones" <altzone(a)gmail.com> wrote: >The Rigol DS1052E is still the best value on the market IMO. >It's only $385 here: >http://www.dealexcel.com/rigol-ds-1052e-ds1052e-50-mhz-2-channel-digital-oscilloscope-sku363_p363.html Does anybody have any experience with DealExcel? I have read they are crooks. DealExtreme, however, are decent folks, and advertise the same scope for roughly the same price including worldwide shipping. -- RoRo
From: JosephKK on 5 May 2010 06:03
On Tue, 04 May 2010 11:08:07 -0700, Charlie E. <edmondson(a)ieee.org> wrote: >I know that this topic comes up regularly, but now that it looks like >SWMBO is going to let us invest in a small oscilloscope. So, what is >everyone's present recommendation? I know that Joerg likes the >Instek, and that the Rigol has recently come up. Which models? And, >where (besides Ebay) is a good place to find them at a good price! > >Thanks, >Charlie I saw some interesting prices recently for Owon: http://www.saelig.com/category/MFR00062.htm |