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recent experience shopping for hobby scope in today's market. tek, rigol, ...
J-R:
Can't believe the crying about having to read something. I've seen it all...
OP: if you are truly in the US, then used is the way to go. You'll get great deals and feel good about the money you saved. Ebay is a good place for this, but there are other places you can find used equipment and many ebay sellers have their own website where the same items are quite a bit cheaper.
I recently got a Keysight DSOX2004A and liberated it to an MSOX2024A+everything and it was only $700. It seems like bragging, but it shows that the deals are out there. There are a LOT of scopes that can be liberated, but doing that on a new scope is perhaps less than ideal.
2N3055:
--- Quote from: J-R on February 25, 2023, 12:13:45 am ---Can't believe the crying about having to read something. I've seen it all...
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It is general attitude and not the only topic like that ... That is why I commented.
--- Quote from: J-R on February 25, 2023, 12:13:45 am ---OP: if you are truly in the US, then used is the way to go. You'll get great deals and feel good about the money you saved. Ebay is a good place for this, but there are other places you can find used equipment and many ebay sellers have their own website where the same items are quite a bit cheaper.
I recently got a Keysight DSOX2004A and liberated it to an MSOX2024A+everything and it was only $700. It seems like bragging, but it shows that the deals are out there. There are a LOT of scopes that can be liberated, but doing that on a new scope is perhaps less than ideal.
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Good advice for people that have some patience and knowledge...
But it could be argued that for 700 USD MSOX2024A is not better scope than what you can get from Rigol or Siglent new for that kind of money..
As always, there is no single solution.
BillyO:
I'm not saying the OP made a "wrong choice" but he certainly seemed to make it based on inaccurate information. GI-GO :-//
The scope of his choice is the sort of thing you'd find on the bench in a community college and it seems it's specifically made for that market. Not much in the features department and only basic low spec functionality. If he is just starting out it might serve him well, but at quite a high cost for what he's getting. His idea that Tek sells well might be true, but I don't think many will be lining up to buy that particular model. There are plenty of 10-20 year old brand name scopes on the used market that will handily blow that unit away in performance for a lot less money.
A used 50MHz boat-anchor student model based on stale technology that has spent the last 5 years in the hands of a .. "learner" .. would quite honestly be the last thing on my shopping list.
But to each their own, I guess. ::)
rsjsouza:
In my opinion the OP made the non-optimal choice based on wrong and/or optimistic assumptions, sprinkled with lack of knowledge about modern oscilloscopes.
In my experience, any of the $400~500 mainstream models of the major Chinese brands (RigSigGwi) blows the chosen model out of the water. The Tek was up to date two decades earlier.
jasonRF:
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It's fairly obvious what the OP's 'use case' is and I dare say he made quite reasonable choice. It will be some time before (if ever) he realizes what 20K memory and 5K wfm mean or why they matter. And in the meantime, he'll have a nice set of educational pop-up windows to refer to.
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Agreed. In fact, the lack of features may make it also easier to learn to use than a more full-featured scope. Once they learn more, if they decide they want more features they can sell it and get something more capable.
I am just a hobbyist and my nicer picoscope can support all of the analysis I will ever need, but I really hate fan noise so if I ever decided to get a bench scope I would probably want something like the Tek. I would only consider used - the 1052B sometimes goes for $250ish or less on ebay. Would rather do that than spend the same amount on a new fanless Owon.
jason
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