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Products => Test Equipment => Topic started by: Cujo on February 14, 2021, 02:14:31 am
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What is your opinion on nScope as a mini all in one lab for a electronic engineering student with no money for fancy equipment? Should I get this, or is there any other recommendations?
https://www.nscope.org/ (https://www.nscope.org/)
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Save up for a proper DSO if EE is to be your career.
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I'd keep my eye out for a used Analog Discovery 1 on ebay. You might be able to pick one up for < $150.
Or get a used Analog Discovery 2 if you can afford it.
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Or one of the Picoscopes if you can not afford the Analog Discovery.
https://www.tequipment.net/Pico/2204A/PC-Based-Oscilloscopes/?v=0 (https://www.tequipment.net/Pico/2204A/PC-Based-Oscilloscopes/?v=0)
Oh, and you can also try the software before buying the hardware if you want to see how it works.
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What is your opinion on nScope as a mini all in one lab for a electronic engineering student with no money for fancy equipment? Should I get this, or is there any other recommendations?
https://www.nscope.org/ (https://www.nscope.org/)
I made do with a Cruddy Hantek 20Meg Scope/LA eBay auction: #183730457950 for a long while. Sold it a while back for $50AUD. Software is a little cludgey but it got done what I needed at the time. Likewise I made do with a Feeltech FY6600 eBay auction: #324221631097 function generator (sitting in the cupboard $50 if you are interested) for a few years before dropping some more serious $.
Where in Oz are you? Someone close by might have and old 20meg analogue scope going cheap/free. I have a doorstop to move on.... :palm:
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I'd keep my eye out for a used Analog Discovery 1 on ebay. You might be able to pick one up for < $150.
Or get a used Analog Discovery 2 if you can afford it.
I really like that one. I will look into that. Dose it have a inbuilt power supply?
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What is your opinion on nScope as a mini all in one lab for a electronic engineering student with no money for fancy equipment? Should I get this, or is there any other recommendations?
https://www.nscope.org/ (https://www.nscope.org/)
I made do with a Cruddy Hantek 20Meg Scope/LA eBay auction: #183730457950 for a long while. Sold it a while back for $50AUD. Software is a little cludgey but it got done what I needed at the time. Likewise I made do with a Feeltech FY6600 eBay auction: #324221631097 function generator (sitting in the cupboard $50 if you are interested) for a few years before dropping some more serious $.
Where in Oz are you? Someone close by might have and old 20meg analogue scope going cheap/free. I have a doorstop to move on.... :palm:
I got one of those once. The durn software wouldn't even run on my PC. Once I read up on it and found the logic analyzer won't run at the same time as the scope it really turned me off and it's sitting in the junk pile somewhere.
My understanding is there are any number of better pieces of equipment these days.