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How thievable are oscilloscopes?
armandine2:
Your scope could be stolen from your workplace or your lodgings, of course.
I lived for a while, as a student in the 90s, in shared accommodation [terraced house] - The house was burgled by someone (with small hands) gaining entry from the loft space which was shared by the other houses on that side of the street. I had my Fluke 23 dmm stolen, but my Hung Chang 20MHz scope was left behind. It did have (and still does, as a reminder) a small set of grubby finger prints on one side, where it was lifted from its cardboard box storage.
Losing tools by theft has been fairly common in my experience of lodging and working in northern England.
Zenith:
If anyone breaks in, they are likely to steal the scope as a technical looking thing, in the absence of any more likely looking portable valuables, and then probably throw it away, when they find it's not so easy to sell. The disruption to you could be huge and well over the value of the scope. Carting it home every night would be a pain.
You could buy a similar scope and keep it at home, just in case, and leave this one at work. Then if this one was nicked, or just let out the magic smoke one day,
you'd have avoided a lot of carting it back and forth, and have a spare at hand. I assume you could find a suitable scope for about £100.
eugene:
Paint it pink and apply Hello Kitty stickers so that nobody will want it.
m98:
Wait, so you have rented a "workspace" and don't have like a door to lock or something? I wouldn't really be worried about break-ins inside of an office building.
ebastler:
--- Quote from: m98 on July 10, 2022, 03:23:29 pm ---Wait, so you have rented a "workspace" and don't have like a door to lock or something? I wouldn't really be worried about break-ins inside of an office building.
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Well, the original post is not that long... If you keep reading, you will get to the "Yale lock", "duplicate keys" and "tailgating through main security" part eventually. ::)
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