Hellö
Writing from up-over... (Sweden is pretty much the exact opposite to Australia
)
Have been fiddling with electronics since I was a little boy both never anything serious - that was until last summer.
I'm mainly using Atmel microcontrollers for various projects and I'm having fun with older hardware like SID (MOS 6581) and soon the Paula chip from the Amiga 500.
To the thing then. I've never owned nor used an oscilloscope but since I'm using a fair bit of I2C, SPI and other protocols the need for unlocking the black box has emerged.
I can't spend much money on a scope and I'd like to go directly for a digital one instead of analogue. (recommendation from HW engineer friend)
Found a scope on eBay (Siglent 100mhz Digital Storage Oscilloscope SDS1102CNL) which could work as a first scope, that's what I thought anyway
It only has 2 channels but reasonable bandwidth for my usage.
I'm a software engineer who's taken a like in hardware but I stick to reasonable hardware design for now.
I know I read a comment from Dave stating that Sigilent wasn't too bad but the model that he referred to was a fair bit outside my price range.
Is this a wise choice or plain stupid?
It costs appx $350 including P&P. (and I suspect the Swedish tax-man will hog it and demand ransom for more money as it enters the country...)
The main usage is for LEARNING more about electronics since I can only guess right now what's happening when I connect my bits and see the outcome.
I also want to debug various communication protocols and suspect I can use this scope for gathering the data.
Yes or no? (if No, please recommend something that's fairly easy to get hold of)
Many thanks in advance from an emerging tinkerer!
p.s Sorry if this subject has already been churned through a million times but I'm just about to press "buy me now sucker" and I assume this forum is one of the more competent ones but still encourage us learners.
p.p.s Big thanks to Dave for not only teaching us really well but also provide excellent entertainment at the same time! If I'd only learned this much when I was a kid perhaps I'd be working with only HW now?