28 Jan
2007
28 Jan
'07
8:57 a.m.
I've been offered a Tektronix 422 oscilloscope (price is under
negotiation). Is this a decent scope or a piece of junk? I'm not very
experienced with oscilloscopes, but I want to get familiar with them
and this one was not disastrously large.
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28 Jan
28 Jan
9:25 a.m.
On Sunday 28 January 2007 08:57, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
I've been offered a Tektronix 422 oscilloscope
(price is under
negotiation). Is this a decent scope or a piece of junk? I'm not very
experienced with oscilloscopes, but I want to get familiar with them
and this one was not disastrously large.
This is a dual trace 15MHz scope. It would be O.K. for low speed requirement
applications.
In measuring/observing signals, one has to take into consideration rise and
fall times, glitches, phase, etc. of the signal - so it's usually best to
have a scope that's about 10X the speed of the frequency you're interested in
observing.
For most vintage work you'd be better off with the readily available and
inexpensive TEK 4x5 (x=6,7,8) series. All are portable, dual-trace, have
delayed sweep, and reasonable differential capability (handy for core memory
scoping).
Cheers,
Lyle
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Lyle Bickley
Bickley Consulting West Inc.
Mountain View, CA
http://bickleywest.com
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3:19 p.m.
On Jan 28, 2007, at 12:25 PM, Lyle Bickley wrote:
I agree 100% here, these are the very finest of analog scopes.
I'd like to make one other recommendation, for the Tek 453. It's a
fantastic scope, and they're readily available at very reasonable
prices.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
I've been
offered a Tektronix 422 oscilloscope (price is under
negotiation). Is this a decent scope or a piece of junk? I'm not very
experienced with oscilloscopes, but I want to get familiar with them
and this one was not disastrously large.
This is a dual trace 15MHz scope. It would be O.K. for low speed
requirement
applications.
In measuring/observing signals, one has to take into consideration
rise and
fall times, glitches, phase, etc. of the signal - so it's usually
best to
have a scope that's about 10X the speed of the frequency you're
interested in
observing.
For most vintage work you'd be better off with the readily
available and
inexpensive TEK 4x5 (x=6,7,8) series. All are portable, dual-trace,
have
delayed sweep, and reasonable differential capability (handy for
core memory
scoping).
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