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Need suggestions on entry level oscilloscopes for EE students

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tautech:

--- Quote from: ModernWires on October 20, 2019, 05:04:40 pm ---Hello EEVblog. I'm looking for a cheap (under $500 USD, preferably under $400) digital oscilloscope. What are some important specs or things I should pay attention to when choosing one? I got a crap scope a couple weeks ago with really low memory depth and terrible menu interface. It was quite annoying to use. I have returned it and started looking for a better one for the money. Is the Siglent SDS1102X-C (not the -E model which is a bit more expensive) any good? It seems to me a decent scope for the money.

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They're an excellent DSO but beware the X-C I believe is Chinese language UI only.
I checked out the Chinese website and I can't spot any other major differences in functionality compared to the X-E but I'm not convinced I haven't missed something.
http://www.siglent.com/products-overview/sds1000x-c/

The later 4ch X-E/C offer substantially more features than the earlier SDS1002X-E/C models which BTW in western markets we only get the 200 MHz SDS1202X-E.
The SDS1104X-C/E strength is that they use two ADC's with a pair of channels on each so high sampling rates are maintained even with 4 channels in use. This allows them to be a 200 MHz scope and even the tests done on the 100 MHz PP510 probes show no appreciable performance differences to the PP215 200 MHz probes that are supplied with the SDS1204X-C/E models.
Still, SDS1202X-E is my biggest seller closely followed by SDS1104X-E.

Dmeads:
I second the Analog discovery 2 from digilent. The software works great even on old computers. The power supply can ripple a bit but the scope is awesome.

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