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Purchased an oscilloscope but did I make a mistake? (re: newbie + Arduino, etc)
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tautech:

--- Quote from: sofakng on June 12, 2018, 12:49:05 am ---Thank you so much everybody for the advice.  You have convinced me to keep the scope.  I've done some research and it sounds like the Rigol is decent but others recommend the Siglent SDS1102X   and other meters but they cost a little bit more.  Hopefully the Rigol DS1054Z is still a good choice?

Also, a little off topic but is that $12 Saelae clone really worth anything?  Will it decode at least somewhat decent?

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Correction: X-E's are where it's at.  ;)
james_s:
Everybody has opinions, and any scope you can afford is going to be a compromise in some regards but the Rigol is a good little unit and will do what you need. Don't worry too much about which scope you have, but focus on learning to use and make the most of it. That Rigol is WAY more capable than anything that was affordable to a hobbyist when I first got into electronics. I remember how excited I was to finally have a 15MHz analog scope.
neil t:
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Wimberleytech:

--- Quote from: IonizedGears on June 12, 2018, 01:10:46 am ---I've personally never used the clone as I have the Saleae Logic 8. The clones sample at 24MHz which should give you a limit of 6MHz digital signals or 4.8Mhz on the safe side if you want to keep up to the 5th harmonic for those square edges. 4.8MHz should be enough for most UART, I2C, and SPI busses.


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The Saleae Logic 8 saved my butt three 1/2 years ago, so I have a special place in my heart for them.
JS:
I think you did good, now all DS1054Z are coming with all options included as sale from rigol directly and all sellers are working with the same offer, plus your cupon, that should do for you as it comes with the serial decoders as standard, rather to having to buy the expensive options (or the well known alternative)

I've just got mine few days ago and I'm quite happy with it, already successfully debugged a few devices, one of which official support had rejected the fix, and it was just a bad placed connector by someone poking around  :o

JS
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