[sdiy] DSO recommendation please

[Bert Vermeulen]

A big problem with these scopes is the 8 bit. Look at how a signal
show. A sime wave looks always distorted.  I find the result of these
scope bad. I prefer a normal scope.

Bert

2010/4/4 Tom Wiltshire <tom at electricdruid.net>:
> Thanks for all the pointers everyone.
>
> I've got a more specific question now. Amongst scopes in my price range,
> some seem to have better displays and less storage memory, others smaller
> displays and bigger memory. The difference can be significant. The cheap
> OWON scopes have 6000 samples memory, whereas the cheap Rigol scopes have 1
> or 2 million.
>
> Which of these two parameters is the most important in your opinion?
> Presumably the ability to zoom in substantially mitigates against the
> smaller screen.
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
>
>
>
> On 3 Apr 2010, at 20:39, Neil Johnson wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> ASSI wrote:
>>>
>>> It is much easier to do that with a logic analyser that understands
>>> the serial protocol and shows you what the signals _mean_ rather than
>>> just wiggles.  Again, to that end I've bought a USB2.0 based one from
>>> www.saleae.com (actually through www.elmicro.com since I bought a
>>> bunch of other stuff, too).  It goes up to 24MHz if used on it's own
>>> highspeed USB port, which is good enough for what I want to look at.
>>
>> For USB logic analyser both myself and Peter Ullrich recommend the
>> Intronix LA1034 ones:
>>
>>   http://www.pctestinstruments.com/
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Neil
>> --
>> http://www.njohnson.co.uk
>>
>>
>>
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