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Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
bd139:
Problem is half of it is wasted with menus and decorations. Here's a screenshot off my old one, fixing its replacement:
BravoV:
--- Quote from: bd139 on May 21, 2018, 09:35:45 am ---Problem is half of it is wasted with menus and decorations. Here's a screenshot off my old one, fixing its replacement:
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But it has colors and can be freezed as youngsters said & cheered ... and yes, you ... grumpy old man. :-DD
And also within the same box, it can display the "H" as in the "Hello world." spitting out from my Arduino I2C line. >:D
bd139:
You can freeze an analogue scope. Turn the intensity up, stare at it for 10 seconds then shut your eyes :-DD
As for Arduino, don’t get me started on that :)
Damn I am a grumpy old man :D
Specmaster:
Personally I quite grumpy old men, especially when they are nearly always right and nice with it, hell I'm one of them myself. :-DD
tggzzz:
--- Quote from: bd139 on May 21, 2018, 08:53:15 am ---Yeah I have to agree. While the DS1054Z is crowed around here as the bee's knees for bottom end DSOs there are too many compromises not to make it frustrating to use. It's noisy, laggy, the UI is crap, the controls are soggy and the probes are just shit. You can get the job done but it's like living in a snake pit.
If I'm honest I'm finding it hard to need a DSO. For digital stuff a Saleae does the job. Really slow stuff, a logging DMM does a beter job as it has some proper measurement resolution (U1241C does 40 readings per second at 10,000 count resolution).
And for that twilight zone in the middle, where the DSO usually wins, the trick is to make your one shot event repetitive! Usually employing the function generator, a BJT and a couple of resistors to accomplish that.
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Just so. Add in "thoughtful design and implementation strategy to make it easier" - and many more tools can be the right tool for the job.
The only places where I've really needed a DSO are for PSU switch-on transients and the like. In one particularly pernicious case (a Tek 485) only one test could be done per 12 hours! Such cases usually only need a "slow" scope, e.g. my Digilent Analog Discovery, which includes an AWG, pattern generator, primitive logic analyser, spectrum analyser, network analyser.
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