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Joined: Mon Jun 16 2008, 09:22PM
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I was looking into buying an oscilloscope for solid state tesla coil use, and probably other uses down the line. I have a pretty good understanding of the features, specs, etc. I was wondering if any of the brilliant minds here could point me in the right direction. I am asking for recommendations. Recommended specs, brands, types, etc. What I am hoping to this to come to, is a starting point. Things such as, a minimal bandwidth, sampling rate, et cetera. A big ol' thanks goes to any contributing members.
I was thinking 25 MHz or greater, and I was going for a used scope in good condition. I am leaning away from eBay, but if a good deal is on there, I might have to go for it. Any input will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
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It would be helpful to know a budget limit otherwise I'd say get a 1GHz 4ch digital recording oscope, you know something that would run a company somewhere around 100k dollars, but I imagine you don't have that kind of money. So I use a Owon its a chinese digital oscope Pretty sure its this one and I payed about the same price
It a good oscope eve after I had some HV feedback trash one probe at the conector where you adjust the cap or whatever it is, and also Ch1 doesn't read below 500mV, will it read anything lower then that I dunno, I do know that if I adjust the voltage to 300mV the trace disapears off the screen.
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565 for 30MHz dual trace? Sounds about full price. You can't actually go wrong buying a new scope, but it leaves you with a lot less money to buy other things to blow up. I recently advised a friend to hook up his speakers with 2.5mm2 twin'n'earth instead of 371 conductor OFC gold plated yada yada as he'd get better sound, like about 50 CDs better sound for the same total spend. Should you get unlucky and get a 2nd user scope that doesn't work or breaks early, fixing it will teach you a lot, and an old analog scope should be fairly straightforward to troubleshoot. Even new scopes sometimes fail shortly after the warranty expires.
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