Happy again

[Skogsgurra]

I found Love! At last! That French scope is awesome. Two batteries and you are set. No probs. Happy!

http://gke.org/pub/files/Oscilloscopes and cameras.pdf

Gunnar Englund

http://www.gke.org

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Half full - Half empty? I don't mind. It's what in it that counts.

 

[btrueblood]

Gunnar,

I cannot find the model you refer to in a brief Google search. 2 channels only...can you tell me at least the model no.?

 

[Skogsgurra]

OX7204

Gunnar Englund

http://www.gke.org

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Half full - Half empty? I don't mind. It's what in it that counts.

 

[btrueblood]

ouch. $7k. Though I suppose if it works, vs. one that doesn't at half the price...

 

[Skogsgurra]

The real good ones shall cost. It gives sooo much satisfaction.

Gunnar Englund

http://www.gke.org

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Half full - Half empty? I don't mind. It's what in it that counts.

 

[btrueblood]

I very occasionally have need/use for a scope. Not having one makes one have to resort to rather silly methods to figure out problems. The output of an optocoupler, for example, when obturated by a fast-moving .17" diameter object...and whether that signal persists at a low enough level to be detected by the camera it is connected to...

 

[Skogsgurra]

My needs are very real. Looking at bearing voltages, motor PWM voltages and DC ripple in inverters. Finding interference on communication and measurement systems and lots of that stuff. Can't do any serious work without a scope. Also, I love a well-engineered oscilloscope, perhaps like a musician loves a good instrument or a marksman loves a fine weapon. There's more to it than specs.

Gunnar Englund

http://www.gke.org

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Half full - Half empty? I don't mind. It's what in it that counts.

 

[sibeen]

Gunnar, I'm glad to see that you've had some satisfaction after all this and I'd be interested to see how you feel in a few months with the new gear.

I'm a bit like you, I feel; there's nothing better than a decent bit of test equipment. The multimeter I use is still a 8020B made by the yellow company well before they turned yellow. I've had it nigh on 23 years now, cost me an arm and a leg back in the day but it's never let me down. I've got a Yok***** DL708 for those events that need a bit of a look at over more than a few cycles, another hard worker that is about 15 years old and hasn't missed a beat.

I agree with the vast majority of your complaints. For the *big* companies there just hasn't seemed to be any great improvement. My last decent handheld scope was a T** THS720P. The comms was iffy, the software was rather poor but I produced report after report with it. What has this company produced in the last 10 years that would even come close?


My first, and perhaps true, love was a Gould scope (I'm fairly sure the company no longer exists) that I was using in the mid to late 80s working on large UPS systems. I can't even remember the model number but it was four channels of goodness. An inbuilt printer, as of course, there was no computer interface but what a machine. I still to this day aren't sure that I've ever found anything that does as good a job.

A sad state of affairs and Mr H and Mr P and all their cohorts would be turning in their graves as you've so ably suggested.