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

Charlie Edmondson wrote:

bill.sloman@xxxxxxxx wrote:

Charlie Edmondson wrote:

Joerg wrote:


PeteS wrote:


Joerg wrote:


Hal Murray wrote:


I've been impressed with these guys: http://www.cleverscope.com/ --
they seem to have a solid understanding of what terms like "noise"
and "jitter" mean, unlike many of the cheap scopes out there.



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Wherever I've worked, rule one has always been, don't develop anything
you can buy. Academics do have delusions about developing stuff in no
time with no bugs, but university workshops know better.

Well, I have also seen the same sort of thing on the commercial side,
too, where a boss didn't want to upset the budget apple cart to get
something he felt the 'boys' should be able to just whip up out of teh
parts room...

Charlie

Bog, reminds me of when my boss wanted me to build a digitizing 'scope. It
was about the time the early 6-bit and 8-bit flash converters first hit the
market. Doing the design was not the problem, i even could get the parts i
wanted; getting the hours to actually build it was. It turned out, of the
available personnel only i had the necessary combination of expertise to do
the various tasks required to build a useful unit. (yes i was both tech and
engineer) and management decided that my time was too valuable elsewhere to
complete the project. You are invited to design working pre-trigger
recording at near logic limit speed as well. (at the time 20 MSPS, today,
about 6 GSPS)

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