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De:
Hi All,
it appears that this year my new hobby company brought some income and I would like to use the revenue to get some equipment home.
I have about a 1000 euro that I would like to spend for an oscilloscope. I know that the model depends on what I am going to use it for and for me it's a tough question. I would like to get into electronics and luckily have the budget to spend.  I'd like to look into the servo motors and the RF devices and understand better how things work. Thus It should probably be a well rounded scope that will last me for the next 10years or so as i will learn etc.

Was looking at Rigol DHO924S https://rigolshop.eu/dho924s.html  as it's just a good fit for the budget but maybe there are deferent things I should look at and consider ?

PS.
please It'äs a bit of a luxury problem. I don't want to go cheap. I want to spend 1000 eur on the company hardware, otherwise they will be gone in food or taxes and all that.

MarkT:
It looks like the Siglent model at that price point is one of the SDS2000X series - probably worth comparing to the Rigol.

Many modern RF devices are way out of reach of a budget scope, note.  Even ISM bands go upto 915MHz, WiFi starts at 2.4GHz, etc.  A spectrum analyzer is more appropriate in many cases for RF work.

u666sa:
I heard from dudes rigols are noisy. Which further reafirmed by purchase decision. SDS1104X-E, and you can hack it to 200 MHz. You can even go extra cheap and still get a good one. You can even get Owon HDS2202S for like really cheap https://aliexpress.ru/item/1005003764438360.html

Let's face it. You don't need an expensive oscilloscope. It's not used often. Most of the time it will be sitting collecting dust. In repair industry for me, last time I used it was yesterday, to check the clock on memory chip. Before that, I wasn't using it perhaps two weeks.  :-//


And you will have to be comparing local buying options VS. foreign. Because of customs.  :popcorn:

JeremyC:

--- Quote from: De on December 10, 2023, 01:18:06 am ---Hi All,
it appears that this year my new hobby company brought some income and I would like to use the revenue to get some equipment home.
I have about a 1000 euro that I would like to spend for an oscilloscope. I know that the model depends on what I am going to use it for and for me it's a tough question. I would like to get into electronics and luckily have the budget to spend.  I'd like to look into the servo motors and the RF devices and understand better how things work. Thus It should probably be a well rounded scope that will last me for the next 10years or so as i will learn etc.

Was looking at Rigol DHO924S https://rigolshop.eu/dho924s.html  as it's just a good fit for the budget but maybe there are deferent things I should look at and consider ?

--- End quote ---

If you are targeting 12 bit scopes the DHO924S maybe good option. I suggest to check threads about hacking the 914 to 924,
it may save you ~100 euro.
I believe the noise front end in Rigol scopes applied to the older 8 bit series.
If you can wait 1 - 2 months check also the new SDS800 HD series from Siglent.

If you don’t have needs for 12 bit scope I would recommend the Siglent SDS2104X Plus, you can easily convert it in 500MHz scope (check thread on EEVblog). However it’s a little bit more than 1000 euro.
In my opinion Siglent scopes have the best FFT implementation on the market.

Good luck...

jonpaul:
I would avoid the digitals till you learn on an anglog scope

A  2 ch 10 or 20 MHz fine for basic beginner use.


We Got three analog Hameg scopes in EU for between EU 5...40.


Go to the modern digital after you are experienced on an analog scope.

j

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