Recommend a oscilloscope - $2.2k

[Andrew]

I'm prepared to spend up to $2200.

I was thinking of getting the TDS1002 from farnell for $1850

Anyone know of any other places in Oz that sell the TDS series?

I've found them at:

Farnell
Prime
emona.com.au

Cheers,

Andrew

 

[Craig Hart]

Hi..

starting with a price and fitting in a model to that dollar value is a
pointless exercise.

How about you tell us what you want to measure, then buy a scope to suit. A
TV repairman can use the 20MHz CRO from DSE worth $500 and get all the
results he ever dreamed of. An RF designer may need a unit with a 1GHz or
higher rating and a really fast timebase, digital and miroprocessor work
sometimes calls for a storage CRO, some work needs multiple channels, etc
etc etc (you could go on for ever).

Craig

 

[David L. Jones]

I'm prepared to spend up to $2200.

I was thinking of getting the TDS1002 from farnell for $1850

Anyone know of any other places in Oz that sell the TDS series?

I've found them at:

Farnell
Prime
emona.com.au

http://www.newteksales.com/
This is formally Tektronix Australia

What are your specs and requirements?
$2200 can get you really nice high bandwidth analog scope.
The TDS1000 series are built down to a price.


At work we recently beat our heads against the wall trying to get a
simple and reasonably priced (<$3000) 50-100MHz "documenting" scope,
i.e. one with a floppy drive or some other form of portable screen
capture capability (without using a serial port and PC software etc)

The TDS1000 (with SD card module) was the only one we could find under
$4700. But the 1000 series has a crappy 2.5KB waveform memory, and we
wanted something just a tad better than that.

The next best price we could find was the Agilent 54600 series at
$4700, they are a supurb scope though (we have the 54621D), but more
than we wanted to pay.

All the usual suspects had nothing better to offer. Anyone know of any
others?

The new Goowill DSOs looked promising with their USB port, but they
can't use those USB memory dongles, you have to hook the thing up to a
PC to capture anything - bugger. A little bit of extra firmware would
have made these a very handy scope indeed.

Dave

 

[Mike Harding]

The TDS1000 (with SD card module) was the only one we could find under
$4700. But the 1000 series has a crappy 2.5KB waveform memory, and we
wanted something just a tad better than that.

God alone know why Tek don't expand that memory - it makes
what would be an excellent scope into much less than useful.

The new Goowill DSOs looked promising with their USB port, but they
can't use those USB memory dongles, you have to hook the thing up to a
PC to capture anything - bugger. A little bit of extra firmware would
have made these a very handy scope indeed.

Depends exactly why you want one? Might it be easier to
use an RS232 or USB and just buy a (secondhand?)
notebook computer dedicated to the scope?

Mike Harding

 

[David L. Jones]

God alone know why Tek don't expand that memory - it makes
what would be an excellent scope into much less than useful.
Indeed.


Depends exactly why you want one? Might it be easier to
use an RS232 or USB and just buy a (secondhand?)
notebook computer dedicated to the scope?

Not really an option. The scope would get used in a dozen different
labs and test areas, and carting around an old laptop just on the off
chance you want to capture a waveform is just too much trouble.
Floppy, USB dongle or memory card is the only practical option. Yet so
few reasonably priced scopes have such a facility.
We put waveform shots into documents on a regular basis, so it's a
pretty necessary feature. Our Agilent scope gets so much use simply
because it has a floppy drive.

Regards
Dave

 

[The real Andy]

I'm prepared to spend up to $2200.

I was thinking of getting the TDS1002 from farnell for $1850

Anyone know of any other places in Oz that sell the TDS series?

I've found them at:

Farnell
Prime
emona.com.au

Cheers,

Andrew

Good name, i like it.

Anyway, the two best cro's i have had the pleasure of using were made by
Tektronix(cs?) and Yokogowa. Many different models, all supurb units. Had a
problem with my own TDS220 many months ago, broke the BNC connector, well
i'll be buggered but they fixed it for free. Now you dont get service like
that these days. They admitted to a design fault in the connector.

Whatever you do, don't buy a friggin LeCroy. They are nice units but very
unreliable. Cost a shitload of cash and the fuckers cant fix them. When they
cant fix them, they replace boards and will keep doping so until its out of
warantee. Then they will start charging to replace boards. They also ****
you up the arse with the cost of shipping to the US..

Andy

 

[Johnno]

What about a nice Kikusui 60-100 Meg.
Dual timebase needed?
If digital, go for the Goodwill 1st, techtronic 2nd. Better value for money

 

[The real Andy]

Andrew, I do have a kikusui 200Mhz 4 channel DSO, send me an email
[email protected]
also have TDS 520 monocrome, TDS 7** colour (cant remember exact model) in
stock, but that would be out of your price range. The TDS1002 and simular
are very popular, do ask newtek http://www.newteksales.com/ if you have not
done already.

*sorry if this is too much spam

IT not spam if you a replying to a genuine inquiry, such as what you are
doing. Spamming is when you always post new posts with deals to promote your
business, which I have not seen you do (yet)..