I just walked away from my bench for a minute and heard a bang and really loud high pitched squeal from the other room. I ran back to find my scope (one of those Digitech 2 channel analog scopes) displaying just a dot in the top right quarter of the screen. Awesome, just what I needed while totally broke and up to my ass in projects.
I think this is officially the only piece of equipment I've bought from there that made it past a year old and still worked (somewhat... it's always had some intermittent trigger problems and generally been a clunky piece of crap that I always regret buying). I got a whopping 2 and a half years out of this one, so I guess I got lucky.
Anyway, I don't know the first damn thing about troubleshooting/fixing scopes, and I don't think I have the tools or knowledge to go troubleshooting the high voltage section (I did take a couple quick reads of some low voltage sections and they all looked fine though). I can't see any damage visually, nothing scorched or anything. The only signs I have to go off are the massive high pitched squeal coming from the power supply section and the screen only displaying a dot. I can move the dot up, but not sideways, so I'm guessing it's an issue with the horizontal section. But again, I don't know much about scopes, I don't have a schematic, so I don't know what to look for and don't feel like sitting up all night guessing and trying to figure out how it works. The guys at my local store are really helpful and I'm sure I could take it in and get it sent away to their repairer or something but I really couldn't be bothered dealing with the process. I assume it's well past warranty, and it'd probably be gone for ages, and I don't really want to pay for repairs on one part of it when I'd bet dollars to donuts another part packs it in a month or two later.
So here's the question- does any of that info give anyone some ideas of what might have bitten the dust, and if so, is it even worth bothering fixing? If I can get this thing back up and running on the cheap I will because I don't like binning usable stuff, but I'm so sick of goddamn Jaycar stuff blowing up that I'm tempted to just bin it, call it the final straw on buying equipment there and start saving for something made with at least some level of quality.
Thoughts?