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From: Charlie E. on 4 May 2010 14:08 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
From: John Larkin on 4 May 2010 15:43 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'm pretty happy with my Rigol DS1052E. I bought it from a regular dealer for roughly $550 or some such. John
From: Joerg on 4 May 2010 16:25 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 :-) -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ "gmail" domain blocked because of excessive spam. Use another domain or send PM.
From: Joerg on 4 May 2010 16:38 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 A 100MHz bandwidth DSO would be more practical though if you can find a good deal on one. Depends on what you want to do with it. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ "gmail" domain blocked because of excessive spam. Use another domain or send PM.
From: George Herold on 4 May 2010 20:46
On May 4, 2:08 pm, Charlie E. <edmond...(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 My Rigol (2 ch. 50 MHz.) arrived just the other day. I got it from Hong Kong for $404 delivered. The manual is in Chinesse? and I had to add my own power cord. I built a mic/ transistor amp and my son and I had a great time making noises and looking at the simultaneous time and FFT display. The FFT looks the same as from a TEK, it averages 256 traces which is nice. Only 'issue' I have is that the nice long memeory depth means that at slow scan rates it takes a long time to update. I haven't played with the digital filters much yet, but they look neat. George H. |