hi, im planning to buy an Oscilloscope for my personel work. im wondering whether to buy a PC based one or stand akone unit. any advice on this pls..
thank you CMOS
hi, im planning to buy an Oscilloscope for my personel work. im wondering whether to buy a PC based one or stand akone unit. any advice on this pls..
thank you CMOS
Not enough information. What do you want to do with a scope?
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The standalone one will work for 10-15 years, while the PC based one won't be connectable anymore in another 10 years.
Rene
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If you really use your scope on a daily basis, a stand alone unit is much more convenient. It is also the single most useful device for all design work.
I like my Tektronix TDS 2002, although I have seen some other units advertized with similar functionality for half the price. Since this is a once-per-twenty-years purchase, I deciced to go with the known quantity.
Luhan Monat (luhanxmonat-at-yahoo^dot^com)
Unless you buy an ethernet based one (don't know if they exist). Ethernet is very standard and backwards compatible.
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** This will get you started.
Nice and cheap and you get a 10:1 probe chucked in.
If it is not good enough - you had better say why.
.......... Phil
Ok, the Ethernet connection is to survive. But the operation would now be with a browser. They are rather quick in development. So I'm not too sure whether a browser in 10 years can still talk to the scope.
TCP/IP & UDP ? You wouldn't want that.
Rene
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A browser based oscilloscope is going to be a bit slow. A dedicated application will work though. There is enough software around which is at least 10 to 20 years old and still works with modern OS versions.
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I agree with Luhan that the small Teks are great "personal" o'scopes. Mine is from the prior generation (a TDS 220) that gets pretty regular use.
-- Rich Webb Norfolk, VA
As long as the words "HP" or "Agilent" do not appear ANYWHERE on the oscilloscope, you should be just fine.
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Heh. That's one of the rules of thumb that doesn't seem to have changed very much. ;-)
-- Rich Webb Norfolk, VA
Why? Their more recent mixed signal oscilloscopes seem fine to me.
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Yep. When I ran the analog group at Genrad/OmniComp (portable tester products) Phoenix, I forbid the use of hp 'scopes, and also Motorola LM324's ;-)
...Jim Thompson
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Merely a logical subset of forbidding all LM324's.
John
What was the deal with their LM324s ?
I have to say I never got a Motoraola bifet to work without oscillating btw. Their early ones were shocking. MC34001 ? etc...
Graham
At that point in time Motorola's LM324's had the worst cross-over distortion, bar none.
...Jim Thompson
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At that point in time Motorola's LM324's had the worst cross-over distortion, bar none.
...Jim Thompson
-- | James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
Indeed, I'm a happy owner of a 54645D
Rene
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There is one exception: The 130C was an outstanding oscilloscope. It, of course, has been steadily downhill since.
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