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Tektronix TDS5034B, TDS5054B, and TDS5104B. Any Good?

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Wuerstchenhund:

--- Quote from: nctnico on June 26, 2016, 01:11:02 pm ---IMHO buying the scope for a quick profit is likely not going to work. The person who spend $4k AUD already has an empty wallet and the seller may have had an advantage by being able to prove them to be trustworthy (and pay top dollar).

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AU$4k is probably extreme but I guess the OP could certainly get in excess of $2000 for it, maybe more. Not a bad profit for what is essentially moving on a piece of gear.

There are still many people for which the Tek brand name looks attractive.

RCHRDM:
Thanks for all the replies.

andy2000:

--- Quote from: Wuerstchenhund on June 26, 2016, 01:25:29 pm ---
--- Quote from: nctnico on June 26, 2016, 01:11:02 pm ---IMHO buying the scope for a quick profit is likely not going to work. The person who spend $4k AUD already has an empty wallet and the seller may have had an advantage by being able to prove them to be trustworthy (and pay top dollar).

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AU$4k is probably extreme but I guess the OP could certainly get in excess of $2000 for it, maybe more. Not a bad profit for what is essentially moving on a piece of gear.

There are still many people for which the Tek brand name looks attractive.

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I do recommend an SSD.  It's easy to miss, but the socket 478 board in the B version has two SATA ports.  I successfully copied the IDE hard drive to a SATA SSD on the TDS5054B I'm fixing up.  It does substantially improve boot speeds, and should be more reliable if you go with a good quality SSD.

uccoskun:
If you are bold enough you can change the motherboard and load XP.  I did not find any successful report on windows 7 conversion yet.

my motherboard is Intel DQ77MK Motherboard.

Jaak:

--- Quote from: Wuerstchenhund on June 26, 2016, 11:06:00 am ---
These scopes also have a mode called 'Fast-Acq' which increases the waveform rate, however measurements and analysis tools don't work in this mode which makes it of little use, als the claimed 100k wfms/s in that mode are reached by other scopes without the measurement/analysis limitations.


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For that class of scope, at the time, I don't recall anything running the waveform capture rate as quick. 

Fast Acq in Tek Scopes allowed you to see transient events other scopes would likely miss or take forever to capture.   The key is you use Fast Acq to figure out what the issue is, then you set up your trigger system to nail it every time, especially with the segmented memory, you could overlay all the trigger events with the time stamps and see the repetition rate.   With competing scopes you could do much of that, if you ever managed to capture what the problem was in the first place...  Hence the power of the Fast Acquisition system.  If you can see it, you can set up a trigger to nail it every time.   Even Agilent's post processing at the time, still meant you have to capture waveforms first and do a software search, instead of actually triggering on it every time.

Like much of this stuff, once you understand how it works, you then know how to use it effectively.

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