Oscilloscope Shopping on a $2000.00 Budget

I've been doing a little analog scope shopping. I find Ebay scopes often too creepy to buy. If I'm going to spend $100 on shipping... It better work. Otherwise I'd rather spend $100 on shipping a "new" scope.

Analog scopes are not totally out of production yet!

The Iwatsu ss-7847A 470Mhz 4ch analog scope.. One site has it listed at ~$2500.00US. (over budget but interesting)

Something like that avoids the: "Surprise! ..It's a dud" with an old dubious $500 Ebay Tek2465B 400Mhz 4 ch with the knobs falling off.

On Ebay somebody has a Iwatsu SS7840 listed but they are also calling it a Lecroy LA314... Iwatsu SS7840 = Lecroy LA314 ?? True?

The Lecroy LA314H analog scope (470Mhz, 4ch) is discontinued. D from BC

I have that oscilloscope (rebranded as Lecroy indeed, but the inside says Iwatsu) and I must say I like it very much. I paid 350 euro for it last year. I think it will match up to the Tek2465.

I think the Tek 2465 is from the 90's.... alot of abuse and use can happen in 17 years...

For it's BW ...that price is about 10x cheaper than comparable digital scopes.

D from BC

It was used, some signs of wear. I spotted it on an online second hand trading website.

I don't think so. I consider myself lucky :-) But you'll never know. Sometimes good offers turn up on Ebay as well. If you setup a search you'll receive an e-mail when something interesting is being offered. Patience is often rewarded.

BTW, Teknet if offering an SS7840 (400MHz) for US$ 1958.- including probes on Ebay right now.

Yeah...I saw that too. I emailed Iwatsu to try and get MSRP's on their SS line including the Iwatsu SS-7840 analog scope. If the new price is not much more, I'd rather get new than something that's been bouncing around from place to place in a courier truck. Also, who knows if it was possibly hacked into operation by scope tech's without a schematic. Other possibilities are coffee spilled on it.. Irradiated in a nuclear lab...Used in a corrosive gas environment... other wacky environments :P

What tops the Iwatsu SS-7840 on Ebay is the guy selling the Iwatsu TS-8500 500Mhz analog storage oscilloscope.. $2834.00Can Iwastsu currently produces a faster 600Mhz version and their top of the line analog storage oscilloscope is 1Ghz. Some nifty CRT technology used for the storage effect.

I'm wondering if Iwatsu might be one of the last to produce state of the art CRT analog oscilloscopes.. IFAIK Tek and Lecroy stopped analog scope production. Since digital scopes are the lastest trend.... I'm guessing the best bang for the buck will be a newly produced CRT analog oscilloscopes. Get'm while you can??

D from BC

Indeed not. Hameg make some very fine analog scopes, and their analog/ digital combi-scopes are excellent. They come up on eBay from time to time.

Dave.

A few years back, I bought (brand new) a KENWOOD CS-4125, 25 Mhz scope mainly for audio and some radio work, ~$500. Has most of the whistles and bells, works good for me. Ken

Is the HM2008 a 200Mhz analog scope combined with a 200Mhz digital scope??

At first glance it's not clear on

On the datasheet BW it's expressed : Bandwidth (-3dB): 2x 0-200Mhz

"2x" ?? wtf does that mean??

It would be explicit if I saw somewhere, "Analog BW = 200Mhz".

Now this scope is over $2000.00Can new, but I'll be watching for resales.. D from BC

mean??

Yes it is both digital and real analog. It says it has the same analog as mode as per the HM2005-2 See the Analog/Digital button on the front panel. Also note the separate Analog mode and Digital mode specs in the vertical section. It is a 200MHz bandwidth true analog scope. I have an older Hameg HM1505-3 analog/digital scope here at work, and it's very nice indeed. Although on first glance it's not obvious how to switch to true analog mode. This new model (which I have not used) looks much more obvious with that big analog/digital button.

Hameg have an excellent niche here and seem to be sticking to it.

Dave.

Nah, you can get a rickety shack in the valley for about $650K. A million gets you a shack in Marin.

This predates the net, but there was an old farm house on Montague whose land eventually became an industrial park It sat for years with bare dirt around it. Back then, your average silicon valley shack a was about $250k, so somebody tagged it "Fixer upper $250k". If I recall correctly, there wasn't even a door.

I say homes in the valley are free since the price just keeps going up. Mine has increased by a factor of between 5 and 6. The interesting thing about the bay area is location location location doesn't matter here. If you look at the stats, you could have bought in East Palo Alto or Palo Alto and made the same percentage increase. Of course, when I would drive through the old whiskey gulch, I kept my head low so it wouldn't get shot off. Now you wouldn't recognize the town, at least parts of it.

The real real estate disaster is the central valley. It is foreclosure city.

D from BC snipped-for-privacy@comic.com posted to sci.electronics.design:

From reading the datasheets it is a Hameg 2005 with a sampler system added. Looks like a real value to me.

I can guess how it's price adds up... Say $1200.00 for the analog stuff.. Say $1500.00 for the digital stuff... Total $2700.00Can... I think the HM2008 sells for about $2000.00 Euro. $2000.00 Euro = $2756.00Can