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Registered Member #30
Joined: Fri Feb 03 2006, 10:52AM
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
Posts: 6706
Well, I'm sure you can get by without an oscilloscope, but it's a really nice thing to have. Once you get one and learn how to use it, you'll wonder how you ever did without one. You build Tesla coils partly to learn about electronics, and you'll learn more if you can observe what the circuit is doing with your scope.
I grew up in a geek household where the scope was just another appliance like the toaster or TV. I have no idea what life is like without one.
Registered Member #1408
Joined: Fri Mar 21 2008, 03:49PM
Location: Oracle, AZ
Posts: 679
When shopping for your 1st one are there features you REALLY want and things you can live without? I've had this same question and see all sorts of scopes: my inclination was to get a very basic scope that was built tough - Are some more delicate than others, etc? If you fellows were buying your 1st one and had limited experience: what would you get?
well currently i am building sstcs without oscope, but it is real pain to not have one. Currently i am looking for some, but "no money - no fun..." you can build some basic sstc, but when it is not working, without OSC you can only guess where is mistake...
Registered Member #1403
Joined: Tue Mar 18 2008, 06:05PM
Location: Denmark, Odense C
Posts: 1968
I picked up an old scope in denmark for 300kr (60$) and so far its been a great investment that have saved me for hours of wondering what could have been wrong.
its no fancy scope and i only got basic propes without multipliers, but it does the job :)
Registered Member #1381
Joined: Fri Mar 07 2008, 05:24PM
Location: Hungary
Posts: 74
Well you will mostly "work" with periodic signals around hundreds of KHz or a few MHz ,at best, so basicaly any 10-25MHz analog scope will do, for starters.
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Joined: Sat Mar 31 2007, 04:15AM
Location: Us-Great Lakes
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With technology the way it is, I say get a digital one maybe 10MHz, Bought a crazy little off brand Owon a few months ago and only have had one bad insident which now has messed up one of the probes a litle bit and CH1 can't measure below 500mV, all due to HV backfeeding into the probe and arcing to ground where you adjust the probes response. Basicly Its 2 Chanel Digital, 10 maybe 20MHz Pc via USB link up, light weight...better yet He's a link got it off Ebay.
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Getting by without an O-Scope
