RE: Scope Advice Needed

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In Reply to: Scope Advice Needed posted by FlaCharlie on October 17, 2014 at 08:52:22:

Many good recommendations below.
I personnally use a modern Chinese Digital Oscilloscope
BUT I have been using oscilloscopes in the day job for 45 years.

For those who have never used an oscilloscope before a Digital oscilloscope is a way to go wrong with confidence. It is very easy to miss exactly what you are trying to see. If you set the triggering wrongly then what you wanted to see may well be in the non displayed part of the memory. Also the advanced Digital functions like Fast Fouier Transforms (FFT) for distortion analysis are of very limited or NO use because of the 8 bit digitiser. Any distortion product less than -40dB will NOT be seen. Many of these oscilloscopes have very limited input voltage rating and X100 probes are almost certainly required for looking around the high voltage parts of a tube amp.

An Analog Scope will not give you these troubles.

Cheers,
Ian

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Topic - Scope Advice Needed - FlaCharlie 08:52:22 10/17/14 (8)

RE: Scope Advice Needed - Gingertube 19:23:05 10/19/14 (0)

This is what you want and many of us on the forum use them inclduing - Michael Samra 15:02:20 10/17/14 (1)

Here is my scope in action. - Michael Samra 15:10:53 10/17/14 (0)

RE: Scope Advice Needed - wheezer 12:13:57 10/17/14 (0)

RE: Scope Advice Needed - Triode_Kingdom 10:12:23 10/17/14 (0)

RE: Scope Advice Needed - Bill Way 09:51:22 10/17/14 (0)

RE: Scope Advice Needed - Chip647 09:37:31 10/17/14 (1)

Ditto that - caffeinator 09:59:34 10/17/14 (0)

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RE: Scope Advice Needed - Gingertube 19:23:05 10/19/14 (0)

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