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Products => Test Equipment => Topic started by: nightfire on February 14, 2021, 12:13:24 am

Title: Advice to affordable Oscilloscope Probes for 100 MHz scope
Post by: nightfire on February 14, 2021, 12:13:24 am

As I want to complete my little workbench in the making, I feel a Rigol  1102Z-E smiling at me from the shelf at the supplier- at least for the current price it is a very affordable 1st scope for the first steps...
Supplied are PVP3150 probes. As I suspect that those are a bit on the budget side, given the overall price of the unit, what are the experiences of folks that already used them?
Is it worth to unpack and use them, or should I leave them packaged (and waiting until I probably will sell that scope in a year or so on ebay and get me a bigger one)?

A probe that is easy to come by here in germany could be a Testec TT-MF-312.

Any comments or tips regarding this?

Title: Re: Advice to affordable Oscilloscope Probes for 100 MHz scope
Post by: ataradov on February 14, 2021, 12:48:16 am

Those probes are fine. For 100 MHz scopes, even dirt cheap TP6100 perform fine.

There is really no point in paying more unless you have specific complaints.

Title: Re: Advice to affordable Oscilloscope Probes for 100 MHz scope
Post by: penfold on February 14, 2021, 12:59:07 am

I've no experience of Rigol probes but I can vouch for the Testec probes, great value for money, my set have lasted a good few years with no problems at all so they're certainly robust (I much prefer them over the basic Keysight probes if that's any useful comparison).

Title: Re: Advice to affordable Oscilloscope Probes for 100 MHz scope
Post by: ferdieCX on February 14, 2021, 02:06:09 am

I have a set of Testec MF-212 since 2010, they are very good.