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[neo]

MFSH&F - I like that!     Right up there with SWMBO (She Who Must Be Obeyed, though I figure most here already know that one).

I currently have neither an MFSH&F nor a SWMBO.  This is a mixed blessing, in that it permits me to poke about on evilBay without hindrance or restraint.  This unchecked ability (along with my highly advanced, perhaps likely terminal case of TEA) has resulted in my putting in offers on a little Data Precision 245, and another somewhat less little HP 3450B.

Both were accepted.  Within like 20 minutes of making them.   

More projects for the pile.   

Pics when they arrive.

-Pat (who really needs to wire something up to cause electro shock when the computer browser is pointed towards eBay...)

Ebay triggered electroshock therapy? Sign me up! We all need one!

I am quite amused by that idea.

[djos]

MFHS&F.*

*Minister for Handbags, Shoes & Finance.

LOL! Haven't seen that one before. I'll have to remember it. Although there seems to be a conflict of interest in there.

  Yeah there are some serious confilicts of interest there - last time I queried her after she spent several hundred dollars on a pair of boots, her response was :you want to keep me happy right?" - I've never brought it up again since!   It does make me feel better about bringing new tools etc home because I'll just trot out the same line to her! 

[mtdoc]

MFHS&F.*

*Minister for Handbags, Shoes & Finance.

LOL! Haven't seen that one before. I'll have to remember it. Although there seems to be a conflict of interest in there.

  Yeah there are some serious confilicts of interest there - last time I queried her after she spent several hundred dollars on a pair of boots, her response was :you want to keep me happy right?" - I've never brought it up again since!   It does make me feel better about bringing new tools etc home because I'll just trot out the same line to her! 

Ha!  Yes - I no longer ask questions when another package from Zappos or Boden shows up - I just keep a loose tally in my head in case I get questioned when the eBay or Digikey boxes arrive...

[Cubdriver]

Yeah there are some serious confilicts of interest there - last time I queried her after she spent several hundred dollars on a pair of boots, her response was :you want to keep me happy right?" - I've never brought it up again since!   It does make me feel better about bringing new tools etc home because I'll just trot out the same line to her! 

    Good luck with that!!  Let us know how (if) it works.  I get the feeling that this:  might be the view YOU see!   

(Not that I'm a pessimist or anything...)   

-Pat

[djos]

Yeah there are some serious confilicts of interest there - last time I queried her after she spent several hundred dollars on a pair of boots, her response was :you want to keep me happy right?" - I've never brought it up again since!   It does make me feel better about bringing new tools etc home because I'll just trot out the same line to her! 

    Good luck with that!!  Let us know how (if) it works.  I get the feeling that this:  might be the view YOU see!   

(Not that I'm a pessimist or anything...)   

-Pat

Lol, I havent needed to test this defense yet, so it's a purely theoretical defense atm!

That said, I have a parcel locker and I have the bulk of my purchases delivered there - as the garage is also my workshop, this combination allows for most purchases to be snuck home without my lovely wife ever seeing them. 

[Cubdriver]

That said, I have a parcel locker and I have the bulk of my purchases delivered there - as the garage is also my workshop, this combination allows for most purchases to be snuck home without my lovely wife ever seeing them. 

    I was getting mine delivered to the office, to my boss' great amusement.

-Pat

[grumpydoc]

I couldn't resist the price 

Traces said to be "noisy" - they do look a bit on the noisy side but it is a 1GHz 'scope. Also they don't necessarily seem worse than other photos of this model around the 'net

If any one else has this model how noisy do the traces look compared with "normal" for a WP 950?

[alm]

It does not happen to have peak detection enabled, does it? Or does this scope lack peak detect?

[tautech]

Traces said to be "noisy" - they do look a bit on the noisy side but it is a 1GHz 'scope. Also they don't necessarily seem worse than other photos of this model around the 'net

If any one else has this model how noisy do the traces look compared with "normal" for a WP 950?

Put some 50 terminators on the BNC's and check again.

[grumpydoc]

Traces said to be "noisy" - they do look a bit on the noisy side but it is a 1GHz 'scope. Also they don't necessarily seem worse than other photos of this model around the 'net

If any one else has this model how noisy do the traces look compared with "normal" for a WP 950?

Put some 50 terminators on the BNC's and check again.

I'll put it through its paces when it arrives, first thing, as you say, is to terminate or ground couple the inputs and check. That plus enabling the 200MHz bandwidth limit.

It does not happen to have peak detection enabled, does it? Or does this scope lack peak detect?

Not sure it's got peak detect, it has "glitch trigger" modes for capturing infrequent short glitches or pulses.

[tautech]

Traces said to be "noisy" - they do look a bit on the noisy side but it is a 1GHz 'scope. Also they don't necessarily seem worse than other photos of this model around the 'net

If any one else has this model how noisy do the traces look compared with "normal" for a WP 950?

Put some 50 terminators on the BNC's and check again.

I'll put it through its paces when it arrives, first thing, as you say, is to terminate or ground couple the inputs and check. That plus enabling the 200MHz bandwidth limit.

Looks a nice bit of kit, I hope it lives up to expectations and serves you well. 

[grumpydoc]

Looks a nice bit of kit, I hope it lives up to expectations and serves you well. 

Me too it's about 20x more 'scope than I need but I have been looking around for a more modern (i.e colour LCD) 'scope and I couldn't pass it up. Will have to sell my trusty 9354 now.

[Bendba]

A bit of excitement today, bought this



It'll be a couple of weeks before I can pick it up but I'm looking forward to it.

[Muttley Snickers]

It'll be a couple of weeks before I can pick it up but I'm looking forward to it.

Be sure to have a chiropractor on standby and don't forget your steel caps either.   

[VK5RC]

How much does it weigh? 

[Bendba]

My truck might need a chiropractor. I should be right, I'll have some proper lifting gears.

I think it would weigh about 5 tones. Sources vary widely from 3.5 to 7 tones. I'll probably make a trip to the local weighbridge on the way home to know exactly how much.

Bought it for $500 but the final cost will probably be double by the time I get it home.

[NivagSwerdna]

I couldn't resist the price 

I considered bidding on that! In the end I decided I needed serial decode more than 1GHz.  Nice scope though. (Final price was a bit above my pay grade too!)

[Bendba]

One Plus 5. My Sony Xperia is becoming very slow and sluggish, despite being just half year old. The Android 7 upgrade totally ruined it, and there's no way back. After using 4 Xperia phones in a row, each with their big issues, I guess I will never buy another Xperia.

You should get one of those: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_3310#/media/File%3ANokia_3310_grey_all_sides.jpg
I use to have one. Not often it would get sluggish or crash.

I personally gave up on finding good phone/computer/tv... by the time you walk out of the store, the hardware is superseded and the software updates eat up 80% of the device's capacity. And then, within months (2 years of you are lucky) the software isn't supported by anyone anymore. 

[grumpydoc]

I couldn't resist the price 

I considered bidding on that! In the end I decided I needed serial decode more than 1GHz.  Nice scope though. (Final price was a bit above my pay grade too!)

To be honest I don't need 1GHz either, but then I also don't have all that much need for serial decode and  what need I do have is probably adequately met by a cheap USB logic analyser and a copy of sigrok.

I thought the price very reasonable actually - it was half what the vendor originally wanted and 25-40% of what similar 'scopes fetch on eBay. I just have to hope my hunch about the trace noise is correct.

I wanted 4 channels as frequently two is limiting and I wanted 200MHz - see the thread in Repair about the PM3394 digitiser board where I needed to chase a 10-20ns logic pulse - that's going to be very difficult to see on a 100Mhz scope. I considered new 'scopes but 4 channels at 200MHz is well out of the bargain basement and prices are heading into mid 4 figure sums eg £2252 inc VAT for a Rigol DS4024E which I cannot justify for hobby work so less than a quarter of that for the LeCroy seems pretty fair.

[macboy]

I couldn't resist the price 

Traces said to be "noisy" - they do look a bit on the noisy side but it is a 1GHz 'scope. Also they don't necessarily seem worse than other photos of this model around the 'net

If any one else has this model how noisy do the traces look compared with "normal" for a WP 950?

Traces look normal enough. The inputs are wide open, so they might quiet down with something connected.
The LCD appears uneven and darker at the top. This is common for these scopes and their DDA and SDA variants. The culprit is a little reflector foil installed behind the backlight CFL tube. With age, it curls and partially obstructs the tube. The bottom of the screen is less affected because of increased light diffusion further from the tube. Refer to for a fix of a similar model. I have yet to do this to my WavePro 960, whose display is much worse off than yours.

[AF6LJ]

My truck might need a chiropractor. I should be right, I'll have some proper lifting gears.

I think it would weigh about 5 tones. Sources vary widely from 3.5 to 7 tones. I'll probably make a trip to the local weighbridge on the way home to know exactly how much.

Bought it for $500 but the final cost will probably be double by the time I get it home.

One must be really careful how one picks that up.
I have been following a youtube video series on the bent and broken parts that came off a Lablond lathe that was picked up wrong.

[nctnico]

Looks a nice bit of kit, I hope it lives up to expectations and serves you well. 

Me too it's about 20x more 'scope than I need but I have been looking around for a more modern (i.e colour LCD) 'scope and I couldn't pass it up. Will have to sell my trusty 9354 now.

I think I looked at that Wavepro 950 a couple of times as well but IIRC the price was slightly high for my taste and I'm not sure whether it has enough processing power to do the math functions at reasonable speeds.

[NivagSwerdna]

I thought the price very reasonable actually

Absolutely.  I think you got a good deal.  Well done.  I have a bit of a limited budget... especially with a rather expensive Eclipse chasing trip coming up. 

[grumpydoc]

I think I looked at that Wavepro 950 a couple of times as well but IIRC the price was slightly high for my taste

It was definitely a bit steep when first listed - even with the current dire state of the pound it would have been over 1100€ in the Netherlands, the auction didn't go that high fortunately

It's hard to know what stuff like this is worth - it doesn't look as though the 950 comes up all that much on ebay but for comparison there are a couple listed with BiN prices ranging from $1400 to $4500.

I think the top end of that is fantasy but a pair of DDA-260's (which are based on the 960) sold for $2200 each. They are a better 'scope as, apart from a 2GHz front end, they have the full 64M of acquisition memory so taking that into account $1400 for a 950 is not completely unreasonable.

This one could have been a bargain for someone though: http://www.ebay.com/itm/LeCroy-WavePro-950-Oscilloscope-4-Ch-1-GHz-with-manuals-needs-repair-/272668492826.

The main reason I can think for channel 1 and 4 not working is that the 'scope has been set in 2 channel 8Gs/s mode 

and I'm not sure whether it has enough processing power to do the math functions at reasonable speeds.

It seems common of the 'scopes of this era and, perhaps more so, of the 1990's that things were pushed a bit on processor power front. I suppose the argument is that it is better to have a slow FFT (or whatever) than no FFT.

[Bendba]

One must be really careful how one picks that up.
I have been following a youtube video series on the bent and broken parts that came off a Lablond lathe that was picked up wrong.

Wouldn't take much to turn it into a 5 tonnes paper weight.