It is somewhat more money but I've been pretty happy with my Rigol DS1104-MSO. I suspect that it is overkill for most automotive applications.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Gene Heskett [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2018 12:44 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Chinese scopes > > On Wednesday 18 April 2018 11:25:46 jeremy youngs wrote: > > > Anyone try these? Or similar? > > eBay item 321994801776 > > I have an old vacuum tube tectronix scope , it hasn't been fired in > > ten years and I don't have an auto transformer to reform the caps so > > I'm concerned about that. I do know someone that does , and I could > > probably get him to do it. But the small size and portability of this > > would be great for my primary income as an auto tech. Thanks > > It is nowhere near fast enough. Thats an audio scope at best. I'd not use it to > inspect any bussing in a modern auto, its way too slow. > > For generalized work, I have an older version of this, gave it to myself for my > 79th bday: > <https://www.ebay.com/itm/ATTEN-OSCILLOSCOPE-Scope-GA1062CAL- > 60MHz-1GS-s-7-800X480-LCD-Screen- > Multimeter/263107826706?hash=item3d4272d412:g:LGsAAOSwZtlZ9-Dy> > > Which mine needs a firmware update but and I have the files here, but linux > "dfu" can't find a port to write to behind the usb socket on the front panel. > Presumably windows could, but I don't have a winders box on the > premesis(sp?) > > Running this one will take a while to learn, but once used to it, it works well. > And the color display is probably 10x brighter, in addition to 3x the screen > area of my Hitachi V1065, a 100mhz, dual channel analog scope, now 20+ > years old and otherwise still in calibration. You will see a narrow spike on this > thats very low repetition rate that an analogue scope will miss unless the > room lights are killed and you wait for your eyes to dark adapt. In that regard > its a storage tube display, but 100x sharper. > > The scope you linked to is a 2 year scope as the battery will swell up and die > by then, mine, a simpler version, did anyway. Within its speed limits, it > worked well, but those speed limits are not good enough to watch the > interface lines from the bob to the machine when checking something from > linuxcnc. > > Nearly all of this digital stuff has a max input of under 100 volts before the 10x > probe, which means it would be damaged or the calibration degraded when > looking at a bus with a full power rs-232 signal on it on a continuous monitor > basis. > > -- > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging > tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
