14 May
2012
14 May
'12
3:44 p.m.
* On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:50:36PM +0100, Rob Jarratt <robert.jarratt at
ntlworld.com> wrote:
What makes would you suggest, beyond Tektronix and
Hameg, are there any
other makes that are generally good and won't cost the earth second hand?
HP, Gould?
For the price, I love my Rigol.
I bought a Rigol DS1052e 50MHz scope a little over a year ago, when it
became clear that they could be easily hacked into a 100MHz scope with a
firmware tweak. Since then, Rigol have caught on that this was going on,
and rather than drop the hammer the firmware hackers, they just lowered
the price of the 100MHz version. You can get them for about $400 now,
new. If I were in the market today, I'd just buy the DS1102e and skip
the DS1052e hacking.
It's not the best scope in the world, but I DO think it's the best
non-used digital scope you can buy for $400.
That said, I also have an old 60MHz analog Tek scope. I think they work
well together, and I think it's useful to have both a digital storage
scope a nice cheap analog scope in your toolkit.
-Seth