Re: Which test equipments must have?

On Feb 2, 11:34 am, "nabi" <k2.mount...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have lots of spare time after work and little spare money.
I wish I make big money. :-(

I plan to get my hands dirty - real circuit buildings. I'm going to
get the Nuts & Volts every month.

What are the must-have test equipments in electronics?
My focus is on digital but I think I need to understand the basic
analog stuff.

Do the oscilloscope or multimeter can be used for troubleshooting
digital circuits?

An analog oscilloscope can, yes. But remember, you cannot view a 20MHz
digital signal properly on a 20MHz bandwidth oscilloscope!

- Multimeter
- Function Generator (with a TTL output)
- Dual channel Analog Oscilloscope, 60MHz or better preferred.
- A Logic Probe is handy for digital work
- Power supplies, and lots of them, you can never have too many power
supplies. For digital work, one with a fixed 5V and 3.3V supply is
handy, or an adjustable high current one (say 3A) with a small
adjustable range (say 0-6V). You can make your own power supplies if
needed.
- For digital design, you cannot beat having a Digital Storage
Oscilloscope (DSO), they are very handy for capturing waveforms like
serial data packets. PC based ones are not as good, but are at least
affordable.
- For digital design a Logic Analyser might come in very handy. Once
again, PC based one are inexpensive.

Dave :)

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