[sdiy] Heathkit Oscilloscope Information

[Tom Wiltshire]

On 16 May 2012, at 18:59, Tim Daugard wrote:

> And for those of you still with me, anyone have a favorite model for a NEW oscilloscope costing less than $500 (approximately an extra $30-40 won't kill me.) (for my Euro friends that would be a 400 euro or less scope.)

You don't say whether you're thinking of a digital or an analog scope. You'd just be touching the bottom-end digital scopes at that price. Rigol or Owon scopes are probably where you're at if you want any digital features. For analog scopes, you have more choice but you won't get the bandwidth or the storage options, though obviously you gain on resolution.
It's come up on here before, so I won't labour the point, but I use a digital Owon scope and have been very pleased with it. Does what I want, and does a lot more useful stuff that my previous £150 analog scope didn't do (frequency readings, voltage measurements, cursors, FFT, etcetc).
Though knowing that a reading is accurate to 0.01% might be nice, mostly a decent 'within a little bit' 8-bit digital result is plenty good enough, and the other benefits (for me) outweigh the limitations.

HTH,
Tom