[tech] I am borrowing the CRO

[James French]

Afternoon All,

I'm very in favour of a new scope, the Tek is very long in the tooth
these days. Rigol's DS1054Z is very much the new hotness in the club's
price range ($400 USD for a 4ch 100MHz scope is basically insane). The
base model adequately covers the clubs required feature set but
doesn't have an inbuilt sig gen. It's not world ending for 99% of the
electronics hacking that members do as it tends to largely be digital.
As far as a bit of kit goes, it has solid reviews all round.

I'd also recommend a standalone logic analyser Saleae's Logic 8 is
worth its price at $210 USD. If we wanted to be stingy, there are
knockoff hardware clones on eBay that their software does work with.
It'd be better to buy real tools and look after them than a knockoff.

Regards,
F.

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 6:37 AM, Frames <oxinabox at ucc.asn.au> wrote:
> Hi all,
> unless anyone stopped me,
> I am going to borrow the CRO (ie the oscilloscope),
> tonight, and return it on Tuesday.
>
> I figured I would ask,
> incase someone (eg Nick and Bob) wanted to do some long weekend hackery
> that would need it (eg the ARM).
>
> I will also suggest that in the not so distant future we should consider
> getting a new one with a inbuilt signal generator, and a FFT mode.
> (UWA now has those -- for the first time in years UWA has better
> equiptment than us.).
>
> Regards
> [*OX]
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