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| My purchase list for my new lab -- budget $1000+, thoughts? |
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| Relayer:
Hello AnyNameWillDo, You need to seriously gauge what you want to do in the field of electronics. What are you main interests? SMPS design and manufacture, working with audio and/or RF gear, Arduino related projects etc. Its the particular thing you're keen on, is what should dictate in what gear you should get initially. With some of the examples given in this thread so far, just one item may cost you more than a grand. You need to be very picky, otherwise you'll have items you may never use or go broke in buying all the wrong thing/s.. Good quality tools, soldering iron/s, consumables, and various components, decent multi-meter/s are a MUST, the rest are just luxuries. An oscilloscope would be the next buy, but that's if you have money left over. Next item should be something you're going to specialise in, and not get an item coz it looks great in the workshop, but you'll rarely use. See below: Regards, Relayer |
| KWKolb:
The Analog Devices ADALM2000 is not widely available yet. I was told they were waiting on a part and someone got one in shrink tubing instead of a case. At least one person has had one on order for a year. The ADALM2000 uses freely available software called SCOPY. |
| AnyNameWillDo:
--- Quote from: Relayer on July 24, 2018, 01:06:52 am ---Hello AnyNameWillDo, You need to seriously gauge what you want to do in the field of electronics. What are you main interests? SMPS design and manufacture, working with audio and/or RF gear, Arduino related projects etc. Its the particular thing you're keen on, is what should dictate in what gear you should get initially. With some of the examples given in this thread so far, just one item may cost you more than a grand. You need to be very picky, otherwise you'll have items you may never use or go broke in buying all the wrong thing/s.. Good quality tools, soldering iron/s, consumables, and various components, decent multi-meter/s are a MUST, the rest are just luxuries. An oscilloscope would be the next buy, but that's if you have money left over. Next item should be something you're going to specialise in, and not get an item coz it looks great in the workshop, but you'll rarely use. See below: --- End quote --- I mentioned some examples in an earlier post but by and large I am just interested in learning, experimenting, creating, etc. I think most of the tools I've focused on so far have pretty wide applicability in any electronics lab (oscilloscopes, PSUs, multimeters, solder, solder suckers, wick, flux, soldering station, flush cutters, pliers, tweezers, strippers, breadboards, etc). |
| all_repair:
Don't rush to load up, enjoy the process as long as you can. Buy on needs as you likely already know. Those that are needed shall need hot spare set, and unlikely you can get the same expensive one as hot spare. You know what I am leading to, get the best good-enough FIRst. The good enough was barely good enough last time, but now the quality has improved hugely The kick is gone once you are loaded with the "prized" piece, keep it out there and they are improving as you wait. While you slowly choose, your value of $1000 is increasing (dun know how Trump's vs Moore's law going to work out though) |
| rhb:
I should like to point out that the Analog Discovery is *very* fragile. It's far too easy to let the magic smoke out. You're limited to 25 V on the analog channels and 3.3 V on the digital channels. I'd be rather nervous connecting one to an Arduino without level shifters from 5 to 3.3 V. I should not want to find out what happens without the level shifters. An MSO such as my Instek MSO-2204EA is 300 V on the analog channels and 40 V on the digital channels. Those ratings seem to be the norm for Rigol, Siglent etc. |
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