anyone have experience with Tektronix 2213a?

[eengineer]

Just wondering what thoughts were on this analog oscilloscope, going to be picking one up tomorrow for $80. Going to be my first personal oscilloscope and first analog scope I've ever used. Currently in my third year of EE and have only used DSO, thoughts? By the way, really excited!

[Dread]

I have a 2430 which is an analog/DSO and an older 20MHz tek scope which I really liked. Over the years I fixed hundreds of things with both of them.
The really great thing about analog scopes in the hands of "younger players" is that you really learn how to use a scope more than you will with a DSO and you also learn more about electronics as a whole because the scope requires grey matter to get results and the simplicity of operation means more time is spent on your circuit design and less time on playing around with the scope itself.
That is my biggest gripe with these new DSO, you spend more time with the settings than the actual circuit.

[eengineer]

yeah the main reason i wanted to get the analog oscilloscope was price and experience. At frist i was debating whether i should buy a cheap pocket oscilloscope, but from dave's videos i realized how much noise they produce and how much more beneficial an actual analog oscilloscope would be. Took me a few minutes of tinkering, but I got my new oscilloscope up and working

[w2aew]

Very nice, looks like it's in nice shape!  There's lot of videos on my youtube channel that will take you though the vertical, horizontal and triggering controls that are common to most of these Tek analog scopes.

[eengineer]

oh wow thanks, checking out your videos now!

[TriodeTiger]

Ah, the brother to my 2215:


I wonder what the difference is, being the same bandwidth and AFAICS delayed sweep.

Brilliant scope, if that is a delayed time base control on the bottom right (not sure how that one works, mine is in seconds), you can find frequency to the .05 of a division, rather than "1.something" by eye.

Alexander.

[xyloeye]

My first scope. It worked great and then went into tick mode (inverter won't start because of probably a short). I think I've narrowed it down to a couple of shorted diodes in the power supply but haven't had time to replace them. I'm using a Tek 465B in like new condition and a Rigol 1052 now. Anyway for the analog audio stuff I normally do, the 2213 is great.