Oscilloscope

Hi all,

With my recent disaster with the wad amp and a number of other, more successful projects on the go I keep wondering about purchasing said piece of equipment. I figure that a scope will let me get further into the hobby. Prob is, only used one at school! and that was more of seeing who could get the best squiggles!! Ive ordered a book as an introduction but what further advice can you give me???

Stu

[Richard]

Depends what you want to spend Stu but these Hameg 20Meg are usually reliable and plenty good enough for our purpose. The agents are down Luton way I think, I've got a smaller one and I spoke to their tech dept once, helpful and servicing and spares seemed reasonable. If it's as described anything up to £80 would be fair,



Get something and play with it - seriously this time and you'll soon get the hang of it. A sig gen is also useful/essential but those 2 and a few made-up leads will do most things. You can pick up power meters/distortion meters etc but they are just icing on the cake. None of them are expensive and you can soon sell them again if it's not your thing.

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thanks Richard. Ive seen a few of them go on ebay for reasonable (I think) money. The signal gens seem to be the expensive bit!

[NickG]

Yep, I agree with Richard, that sort of scope can be a godsend for finding whats going on in and around amps. Problem is test gear becomes addictive in itself, I have finally found a requirement that a 20meg scope can't help with. So if anone knows of someone with a spare Tek 7704a mainframe or above I might be interested (sorry for the partial hijack of the thread).

[Shane]

Originally Posted by Stu2006

thanks Richard. Ive seen a few of them go on ebay for reasonable (I think) money. The signal gens seem to be the expensive bit!

Haven't I heard somewhere that a CD player with a suitable disc can be used as a signal generator? It should be possible to create a CD with suitable test tones on it.

Originally Posted by Stu2006

Hi all,

With my recent disaster with the wad amp and a number of other, more successful projects on the go I keep wondering about purchasing said piece of equipment. I figure that a scope will let me get further into the hobby. Prob is, only used one at school! and that was more of seeing who could get the best squiggles!! Ive ordered a book as an introduction but what further advice can you give me???

Stu

I don't suppose you are handy for St Neots, Cambs are you? I've got one sitting in the garage doing nowt - yours for the same if you collect it.

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/scope.JPG

Bring me a bar of chocolate and I'll throw in 3 'how to' books (if I can find them) and an unopened pack of probes!!

[richardcooper2k]

signal generators are easy to build if you don't want anything too fancy. i built one once for peanuts with parts from maplins. design from babani electronics book 'test equipment construction'.

[Richard]

Cor, that one went 33 to 132 in 5 hours, that's faster than my car eBay really is unpredictable isn't it.

Originally Posted by Keith G

I don't suppose you are handy for St Neots, Cambs are you? I've got one sitting in the garage doing nowt - yours for the same if you collect it.

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/scope.JPG

Bring me a bar of chocolate and I'll throw in 3 'how to' books (if I can find them) and an unopened pack of probes!!

Gone!

Sniped, on the WD forum, whatever next! No worries, Im on Chorley, Nr Preston so it isnt round the corner!! thanks anyway.

IM still looking, I was surprised at what the Hameg finished at. Can anyone give me more info on a sig gen??