Re: Are low/lower cost USB Oscilloscope's any good?

"Chris Carlen" <crcarleRemoveThis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have poor impressions about these folks, but possibly unjustified:
http://www.linkinstruments.com/

They've been around forever -- over a decade, I believe. I once had one of
their "logic analyzer" boxes, and while it was nowhere near as feature-laden
as a "real" logic analyzer, it was still useful and met its specs.

The only downside I recall was that they were quite slow to get drivers for
new OSes (Windows 2000, at the time) out the door. The box I used was simple
enough that I never had to call them up for support, so I can't comment on how
they might fare there.

Hmm... I see on their main page they're advertising their DSO-8500 devices as
spectrum analyzers. Probably not going to meet Joerg's wishlish with only
100MHz bandwidth and an 8 bit ADC (at 500Msps, so perhaps they effectively get
9 bits with oversampling), unfortunately.

Note that there are benchtop (not PC based) digital scopes coming from
various Chinese makers these days for ridiculously low prices.

....and Korea. Some of them do look compelling.

---Joel


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