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Does a hobbyist need a Oscilloscope?
Simon:
--- Quote from: Nermash on October 12, 2010, 06:35:24 am ---Main question is do you want to have an oscilloscope? If answer is yes, and you can afford it, then go ahead and indulge yourself!
Life is too short to contemplate such trivial questions ;)
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I second that - BACK TO WORK....err I mean carry on playing with your projects (well I'm about to start work >:()
saturation:
Yes. But unlike Dave, I think that until you know what a scope can do you can get good use from many of the 'toy' scopes, many of the pocket scopes that sell for < $100 will work for most of your needs.
Google states it runs from $30-60 for a kit, and assembled scopes for about $100-200. I think building your own and examining not only how to use it, but what makes it work, is well worth the cost of the kit. If you've outgrown it, it will be money well spent, if not, then your skill level will never take advantage of a more expensive scope.
These scopes are typically good for signals to 100kHz, and sample at about 1 MHz.
Some better names include DSO Nano, Velleman HPS10, are in the $100 range, are assembled and have better specs.
david77:
Dave's with Dave on this one ;).
I'd rather buy a used analog scope instead of these toys.
Dave gave all the reasons in his drive time rant a while back.
Nermash:
I agree with Daves :)
If you want a scope get a scope, don't buy toys.
logictom:
--- Quote from: Nermash on October 12, 2010, 01:22:37 pm ---I agree with Daves :)
If you want a scope get a scope, don't buy toys.
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Also in agree with Daves and Nermash. You've better off keep the money spent on one of the toys and putting it towards a proper scope. Second hand analogue scope any day of the week.
As to if you need it then like the others say it all depends on what you are doing, I haven't used mine a a great deal but when I have it's worked a treat showing what's causing the problem.
SuperMiguel, nice looking robot, damn now I want one of those chassis! :P
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