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| mastershake:
looking to spend ballpark around 400 ish give or take on a decent one. i know this will not get me top of the line. id really like to find something 80-100mhz. they all seem to have one or more things that kind of ruin it overall like one example has 100mhz 16bit etc but square wave is only 2mhz and triangle is 10. not sure how often ill use those but still then others that have say 50 square wave are like 60-maybe 80 overall and usually a chap quality (of course) for that kind of money. is there anything that gets really recc here in that 4-500 price range that does most things really well without to much noise etc and has most things that would be used. this will be passed onto a student once they start to need or use it so im hoping to find something somewhat decent. i can get a GREAT deal on the 100mhz hantek 3000 series right now but i know how most feel about them here and the specs are really only meh once you really look at them. just curious if one model tends to stick out in that price range and gets recc here more often. |
| tautech:
An 'improved' SDG1032X will get you to 60 MHz which is good value. OTOH an 'improved' SDG2042X can get you to 120 MHz, the limit of Bode plot BW in Siglent DSO's however that is at the top end of your desired spend. |
| mastershake:
by improved do you mean those are modded? im trying to read all i can but with my eye sight its very slow going now. |
| tautech:
--- Quote from: mastershake on July 11, 2023, 04:37:02 am ---by improved do you mean those are modded? --- End quote --- Yes. Others can provide guidance. ;) |
| RoGeorge:
--- Quote from: mastershake on July 11, 2023, 04:37:02 am ---those are modded? --- End quote --- Not modded, but fully unlocked. Usually, a company produces only the top of the line instrument, then lock it down by software and sell it cheaper, in the hope the buyer will buy later more software "features", which can unlock the instrument to its maximum performance. The hardware is the same, only the sticker with the model is different (and the software locks) across a given line of instruments. For example one can buy online a "frequency upgrade" for a low end generator, which is nothing but a key number that will unlock the software, so the same instrument can go upper in frequency. Nothing changes in hardware. There are ways to generate these keys and undo all factory locks for free, so one can buy the cheapest version of an instrument, and unlock it later, so to get the same performance as if the instrument were the top of the line. |
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