<div dir="ltr"><div>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.<br><br></div>-- CHS<br><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 3:28 PM Jeff Hubbs via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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reasons to not that mostly have to do with electrical isolation. <br>
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<pre>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?
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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:
<a class="m_-6879109710040526318moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.linkinstruments.com/mso28.html" target="_blank">https://www.linkinstruments.com/mso28.html</a> ($325)
<a class="m_-6879109710040526318moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.dreamsourcelab.com/product/dscope-c20p/" target="_blank">https://www.dreamsourcelab.com/product/dscope-c20p/</a> ($179)
- Solomon
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