4 responses to “EEVblog #310 – Cheap Siglent and Agilent scopes”

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  Rohit de Sa July 15th, 2012 at 14:04

  I’d love to see a teardown/comparison of a couple of these low cost scopes – Siglent/Atten, Rigol, Owon. On the cards sometime soon?

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    EEVblog July 17th, 2012 at 00:43

    Quite possibly. Big job though for a shootout.

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  DC July 16th, 2012 at 03:46

  I’ll second that. Even take a bit further, and look at the tiering for scopes.

  * So basic low-end 50meg for around $xx, this is what you get, what you can do.
  * Step up to a 100meg for around $yy and you get these features. This one and that are really worth it if you’re doing AVR/PIC microcontroller work.
  * Even better, go for something like this BLAHBLAH scope, and now you get XXYYZZ which is really neat. Is it worth the extra $zz, yeah, I think so.

  Add in the PC-based scopes too. I know you did the comparison between PC and bench scopes in 2009 – have things changed at all ? A colleague has a Cleverscope with a dedicated small back-of-monitor PC and 21″ monitor for it. Bluetooth keyboard/mouse. Wow, slick, and that gorgeous huge screen. But pricey.

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  Steve July 16th, 2012 at 08:20

  I’ll second that, a teardown of some of the cheaper scopes on the market, and by that I mean less than 800$, but then having something like “But for 1000$, you can get this” would be nice.

  Bet your running out of room to store all the electronics stuff you get given. First you had a box of multimeters, now you have a room of various scopes?

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