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Registered Member #2431
Joined: Tue Oct 13 2009, 09:47PM
Location: Chico, CA. USA
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I have searched the forum and found that the " Rigol DS1052E DSO " was highly reccomended. Is this still true? I will be buying my first o-scope soon. If there are differing opinions please comment. Also, price is important.
Registered Member #1316
Joined: Thu Feb 14 2008, 03:35AM
Location: Cambridge, MA
Posts: 365
I bought the Rigol DS1052E a few weeks ago and I love it. A few other 4hv members also have it. My only bad comment would be that the scope probes that come with it are rather low quality.
However the rest of the scope is great. It has a great amount of features for a price that is less than some new analogue scopes. The feature to save waveforms to USB is really useful.
Registered Member #3505
Joined: Sun Dec 12 2010, 06:03AM
Location: Albuquerque NM
Posts: 108
I'm also on the hunt for a O-scope and I'd like to keep it <$200. I've been hunting on ebay but I'm not sure what to even look for. any helpful hints would be sweet.
Registered Member #2431
Joined: Tue Oct 13 2009, 09:47PM
Location: Chico, CA. USA
Posts: 5639
U4R1A wrote ...
I'm also on the hunt for a O-scope and I'd like to keep it <$200. I've been hunting on ebay but I'm not sure what to even look for. any helpful hints would be sweet.
i did buy this one for 220$ but now the price has come down.
i use this for my HV measurements only, i refuse to endanger my good o-scope if/when i get one.
Registered Member #618
Joined: Sat Mar 31 2007, 04:15AM
Location: Us-Great Lakes
Posts: 628
I have an Owon pd5020 that I got 2 or 3 years ago for around $200 and its a pretty decent scope including handling a few kv shorted across Ch1 which damaged it and destroyed the adjustment cap on the test lead, Ch1 still works but it won't measure accurately below 1v/div.
Probably more then your willing to spend, but if a hand held oscope is something that you may want the Hantek's are pretty nice I have dso 8060, and its a damn nice scope, considering it has a function generator that does sine, triangle, square,trapezoid, arbitrary, and AM signal output, has a 6000 count DMM, 60MHz, and a spectrum analyzer (which I mistook for a signal analyzer) and you can operate all 4 at the same time, and read DMM while in scope mode.
Plus the scope scope itself has some nice features which I haven't came across in quiet alot of the budget scopes, and that you can have both channels have there own trigger, so if your measuring 2 signals of differing frequency you can have ch1 triggering and ch2 triggering so that you can get both waveforms to be stable on the screen.
Registered Member #326
Joined: Sat Mar 18 2006, 01:12PM
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
Posts: 66
My 20 MHz analog scope was a throwout from the university I currently work for, and used to study at. If you're studying electronics at college, it's well worth taking the time to get to know the lab technicians, and explaining that you're a hobbyist looking for old, working scopes or other handy kit such as bench PSUs.
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Joined: Sat Feb 11 2006, 01:19PM
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The professor that's in charge of the lab at my uni told me it's against the rules to give away the obsolete equipment that they need to get rid of, but they can sell it... very, very cheap.
But that's not how I got my scope. I went on craigslist and searched for an oscilloscope, and was lucky enough to find a guy selling an old TEK453 for $100. If you live in a major metropolitan area, craigslist might be worth a try.
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