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Where will Oscilloscopes and DMM's be in 10yrs ?
Bud:
I am with coppice on this one. Even if i do have a 4 channel scope I avoid using more than 1 channel as much as I can because fiddling with multiple probe cables drives me nuts. As it turns out 99% of the time 1 channel is all that is needed.
rsjsouza:
--- Quote from: 2N3055 on October 26, 2022, 07:33:32 pm ---My point is that 2 ch scope with 2 probes is 700€ (no tax) and 4ch scope with 4 probes is 999€ (no tax). Difference is not peanuts but in percentage it is not so great. That is for new Rigol HDO1000.
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Sinisa, it is 40% more... For a beginner it can give you a lot in the test gear department.
My experience also reflects coppice and Bud here, but I agree it is entirely dependent on the usage. Analog electronics has use for one or two channels 99% of the time, while digital electronics might be better covered with other tools such as a cheap logic analyzer. Each to its own, I guess.
--- Quote from: 2N3055 on October 26, 2022, 07:33:32 pm --- In meantime Rigol MS5000 is cheaper in basic 4 ch version then in 2ch. Go figure..
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Now that I don't understand... Go figure.
coppice:
--- Quote from: rsjsouza on October 26, 2022, 08:12:19 pm ---
--- Quote from: 2N3055 on October 26, 2022, 07:33:32 pm ---My point is that 2 ch scope with 2 probes is 700€ (no tax) and 4ch scope with 4 probes is 999€ (no tax). Difference is not peanuts but in percentage it is not so great. That is for new Rigol HDO1000.
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Sinisa, it is 40% more... For a beginner it can give you a lot in the test gear department.
My experience also reflects coppice and Bud here, but I agree it is entirely dependent on the usage. Analog electronics has use for one or two channels 99% of the time, while digital electronics might be better covered with other tools such as a cheap logic analyzer. Each to its own, I guess.
--- Quote from: 2N3055 on October 26, 2022, 07:33:32 pm --- In meantime Rigol MS5000 is cheaper in basic 4 ch version then in 2ch. Go figure..
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Now that I don't understand... Go figure.
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The 4 channel one is on promotion right now. The 2 channel one isn't.
robert.rozee:
we may see a role reversal in future, with an instrument that is primarily an 8 or 16-channel logic analyzer that includes a tightly-integrated 2-channel oscilloscope add-on.
imagine 8 (or 16) BNC inputs running into to the logic analyzer portion, and then a pair of analog channels that can be switched arbitrarily to more closely examine any of the 8/16 inputs. this would well serve the needs of someone who is mostly interested in digital electronics, but at the same time has a need to occasionally inspect the shape/integrity of signals.
most crudely, there would be two 16-position rotary switches that select which two of the 8 (or 16) inputs got the analog attention. the screen layout may consist of the two selected channels expanded vertically, so that as you rotated one of the rotary switches the digital traces would be shuffled up/down to accommodate the analog one(s).
© me, 2022!
cheers,
rob :-)
tautech:
--- Quote from: robert.rozee on October 27, 2022, 01:17:20 pm ---we may see a role reversal in future, with an instrument that is primarily an 8 or 16-channel logic analyzer that includes a tightly-integrated 2-channel oscilloscope add-on.
imagine 8 (or 16) BNC inputs running into to the logic analyzer portion, and then a pair of analog channels that can be switched arbitrarily to more closely examine any of the 8/16 inputs. this would well serve the needs of someone who is mostly interested in digital electronics, but at the same time has a need to occasionally inspect the shape/integrity of signals.
most crudely, there would be two 16-position rotary switches that select which two of the 8 (or 16) inputs got the analog attention. the screen layout may consist of the two selected channels expanded vertically, so that as you rotated one of the rotary switches the digital traces would be shuffled up/down to accommodate the analog one(s).
© me, 2022!
cheers,
rob :-)
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It’s almost here, the SDS6000L, a headless DSO of 4 or 8 analog channels with each unit supporting 16 digital channels and if you say that’s nothing special you’re correct but multiple units can be remotely ganged together to provide a max of 512 analog channels.
There’s a thread here dedicated to them including the little we know about them at this time.
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