[ale] Inexpensive oscilloscope for troubleshooting?

[Charles Shapiro]

I went with a used oscilloscope from Craigslist.  It's pretty way vintage
and only 20 MHZ, but it's hard to argue with the $50 price point.

-- CHS


On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 3:28 PM Jeff Hubbs via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> One *can* do this, but there are some reasons to not that mostly have to
> do with electrical isolation.
>
> On 9/20/18 3:16 PM, Solomon Peachy via Ale wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 03:00:23PM -0400, Raj Wurttemberg via Ale wrote:
>
> I was thinking about getting a used o-scope but I see quite a few new units
> out of China that look useable.  Yeah, I know the quality won't be the same
> at BK Precision, Tektronix, or HP, but I just need something for light use.
> What are you guys using?
>
>
> If you don't need something with a dedicated display/UI, get one of
> those USB-attached display-less 'scopes.
>
> It also helps to know what sort of bandwidth, voltage, and sampling rate
> requirements you have..  And what sort of budget you're working with.
>
> I know these two work with Linux:
>
>   https://www.linkinstruments.com/mso28.html   ($325)
>   https://www.dreamsourcelab.com/product/dscope-c20p/  ($179)
>
>  - Solomon
>
>
>
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